The poetry of thought in late antiquity
Subtitle: essays in imagination and religion
By: Patricia Cox Miller.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Classical literature -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- Greece.; Christianity and other religions in literature.; Christianity and literature -- Rome.; Religious literature -- History and criticism.; Religion and literature -- History -- To 1500.; Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-287).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: POETIC IMAGES AND NATURE; title: Preface; title: 1 "Adam Ate From the Animal Tree": A Bestial Poetry of Soul; title: :2 Origen on the Bestial Soul: A Poetics of Nature; title: 3 The Physiologus: A Poiesis of Nature; title: 4 Jerome's Centaur: A Hyper-icon of the Desert; title: PART II: POETIC IMAGES AND THE BODY; title: Preface; title: 5 "Plenty Sleeps There": The Myth of Eros and Psyche in; title: Plotinus and Gnosticism; title: 6 "Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure": Eros and Language in; title: Origen's Commentary on the Song of Songs; title: 7 The Blazing Body: Ascetic Desire in Jerome's; title: Letter to Eustochium; title: 8 Desert Asceticism and "The Body from Nowhere"; title: PART III: POETIC IMAGES AND THEOLOGY; title: Preface; title: 9 "In My Father's House Are Many Dwelling Places":; title: KxiapLg in Origen's De principiis; title: 10 Origen and the Witch of Endor: Toward an; title: Iconoclastic Typology; title: 11 Poetic Words, Abysmal Words: Reflections on; title: Origen's Hermeneutics; title: 12 In Praise of Nonsense: A Piety of the Alphabet in; title: Ancient Magic; title: 13 "Words With An Alien Voice": Gnostics, Scripture,; title: and Canon; title: Bibliography.