Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions

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 papers 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.


Author: G. R. Boys-Stones
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/29/2003
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.42w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780199240050

About the Author

G. R. Boys-Stones is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham

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