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Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (Paperback)
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Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (Paperback)
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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.
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