Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780521769556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 378 str.

Nancy Worman

Opis

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

Spis treści

Introduction: dreams of order; 1. Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor; 2. Rural resources: Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion; 3. On the road: charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes; 4. Rural retreats: staking philosophy's terrain in Plato; 5. Diaspora: journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry; 6. On the road again: Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings; 7. In Plato's garden: reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Epilogue: dreaming in the garden with Proust.