Nancy Worman

Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108814478
• ISBN-10: 1108814476
• Artikelnr.: 59514812

Autorenporträt

Nancy Worman is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University, New York, USA. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in Greek literature and culture. Her most recent book is Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: dreams of order
1. Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor
2. Rural resources: Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion
3. On the road: charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes
4. Rural retreats: staking philosophy's terrain in Plato
5. Diaspora: journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry
6. On the road again: Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings
7. In Plato's garden: reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Epilogue: dreaming in the garden with Proust.