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

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Beilage / Supplement: Rezension / review - CONTENTS -- Introduction -- G. R. Boys-Stones -- Metaphor, Simile, and Allegory as Ornaments of -- Style -- Doreen Innes -- Part I: Metaphor -- The Harlot�s Art: Metaphor and Literary Criticism -- Christoph G. Leidl -- Plato on Metaphors and Models -- E. E. Pender -- Literary Metaphor and Philosophical Insight: The -- Significance of Archilochus -- Paul Crowther -- The Problem of Metaphor: Chinese Reflections -- G. E. R. Lloyd -- Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, -- Ricoeur, and Others -- Michael Silk -- Part II: Allegory -- Figures of Allegory from Homer to Latin Epic -- Andrew Laird -- Allegory and Exegesis in the Derveni Papyrus: -- The Origin of Greek Scholarship -- Dirk Obbink -- The Stoics� Two Types of Allegory -- G. R. Boys-Stones -- The Rhetoric of the Homeric Problems -- Donald Russell -- Origen on Christ, Tropology, and Exegesis Mark Edwards. - According to the theoretical accounts that survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. Both allegory and metaphor are linguistic 'tropes': their purpose is essentially ornamental. The distance posited here between meaning on the one hand and the form of its expression on the other has come under decisive attack in the work of twentiethcentury theorists, who have argued for the central role of metaphor in the construction of meaning. But how far in fact do the rhetorical handbooks represent the scope and subtlety of ancient thought on the matter? The eleven essays presented here address this question from a variety of theoretical perspectives�historical, philosophical, and literary-critical. Distinguished contributors examine the origin and meaning of the term 'metaphor', set ancient against modern theories of language, and compare theory with practice. The inclusion of papers devoted to allegory in the writing and exegesis of antiquity not only provides another way of testing the adequacy of ancient rhetorical theory but also extends the debate into areas of the literary life of antiquity that have been unjustly sidelined or neglected. ISBN 9780199240050