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

by G. R. Boys-Stones (Editor)

Overview

According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191528866
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/20/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	877 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, G. R. Boys-Stones2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style, Doreen Innes3. Part 1. Metaphor, Christoph Leidl4. Plato on metaphors and models, E. E. Pender5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus, Paul Crowther6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections, G. E. R. Lloyd7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others, Michael Silk8. Part 2. Allegory, Andrew Laird9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship, Dirk Obbink10. The Stoics' two types of allegory, G. R. Boys-Stones11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems, Donald Russell12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis, Mark Edwards