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  title info:
    title: Landscape and the spaces of metaphor in ancient literary theory and criticism
  name:
    name part: Worman, Nancy
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 368 pages ; 26 cm.
  abstract: This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where authoritative performers such as Muses, poets, and eventually critics or theorists view, appropriate, and emulate their bounties (for example springs, flowers, rivers, paths). These spaces of metaphor and their elaborations provide poets and critics with a vivid means of distinguishing among styles and an influential vocabulary. Together these figurative terrains shape critical and theoretical discussions in Greece and beyond. Since this discourse has a remarkably wide reach, the book is broad in scope, ranging from archaic Greek poetry through Roman oratory and 'Longinus' to the reception of critical imagery in Proust and Derrida.
  table of contents: Introduction : dreams of order -- Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor -- Rural resources : Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion -- On the road : charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes -- Rural retreats : staking philosophy's terrain in Plato -- Diaspora : journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry -- On the road again : Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings -- In Plato's garden : reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Epilogue : dreaming in the garden with Proust.
  note: Nancy Worman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Ancient
    topic: History and criticism
    topic: Theory, etc
  subject:
    topic: Metaphor in literature
  subject:
    topic: Landscapes in literature
  subject:
    topic: Place (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  classification: PN621 .W67 2015
  classification: 809/.01
  identifier: 9780521769556 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521769558 (hardback)
  identifier: 2015012201
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150601
    record change date: 20170928112032.0
    record identifier: in00003608239