Metaphor, allegory, and the classical tradition
Subtitle: ancient thought and modern revisions
By: edited by G.R. Boys-Stones.
Contributors: Boys-Stones, G. R.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Classical literature -- History and criticism; Metaphor in literature; Rhetoric, Ancient; Metaphor; Allegory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / G.R. Boys-Stones; title: Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style / Doreen Innes; title: The harlot's art : metaphor and literary criticism / Chrostoph G. Leidl; title: Plato on metaphors and models / E.E. Pender; title: Literary metaphor and philosophical insight : the significance of Archilochus / Paul Crowther; title: The problem of metphor : Chinese reflections / G.E.R. Lloyd; title: Metaphor and metonymy : Aristole, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others / Michael Silk; title: Figures of allegory from Homer to Latin epic / Andrew Laird; title: Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus : the origin of Greek scholarship / Dirk Obbink; title: The stoics' two types of allegory / G.R. Boys-Stones; title: The rhetoric of the Homeric problems / Donald Russell; title: Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis / Mark Edwards.