[PDF.04xn] Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

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 | #3255320 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2004-04-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.75 x6.14l,1.39 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.| Reinterpretation on History of Allegorists|By William Melendez|This book must be read by philosophers, students of the classics, literary theorists, and philologists. It was one of my favorite books that I read in 2007. The scholarship in this book is thorough and exhaustive, you can tell that Struck spent hours each day pouring over the source materials for this treatise. Th| |Winner of the 2007 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit

"A rich and fascinating account of how the ideas of symbolism and allegorical reading developed over the course of classical antiquity. It is a remarkable achievement."--David Konstan, <

Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol."

The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism. Rather, a different group of Greek thinkers--the allegorists...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts   |  Peter T. Struck. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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