Landscape and the spaces of metaphor in ancient literary theory and criticism /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Worman, Nancy, 1963-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Literature, Ancient > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Metaphor in literature. Landscapes in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.

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.