Landscape and the spaces of metaphor in ancient literary theory and criticism

1. Verfasser: Worman, Nancy, 1963- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: xii, 368 pages ; 26 cm
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : dreams of order
  • Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor
  • Rural resources : Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion
  • On the road : charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes
  • Rural retreats : staking philosophy's terrain in Plato
  • Diaspora : journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry
  • On the road again : Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings
  • In Plato's garden : reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
  • Epilogue : dreaming in the garden with Proust.