Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition
Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199240050
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 223x143x21 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
How closely do the theoretical notions of 'metaphor' and 'allegory' developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new essays by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory - a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy - is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' claim that it is one form of metaphor.
MoreLong description:
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.
... intelligently conceived and well balanced ... this does identify most of the problems in question and provide an intelligent range of approaches with which readers will start to identify their own solutions to those problems. It is both a good collection of essays and a collection of good essays.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style
The harlot's art. Metaphor and literary criticism
Plato on metaphors and models
Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus
The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections
Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others
Figures of allegory from Homer to Latin epic
Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship
The Stoics' two types of allegory
The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems
Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis
