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

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

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: Dreams of order
  11. 1 Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor
  12. 2 Rural resources: Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion
  13. 3 On the road: Charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes
  14. 4 Rural retreats: Staking philosophy’s terrain in Plato
  15. 5 Diaspora: Journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry
  16. 6 On the road again: Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings
  17. 7 In Plato’s garden: Reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
  18. Epilogue: Dreaming in the garden with Proust
  19. Bibliography
  20. General index
  21. Index locorum