Birth of the symbol: ancient readers at the limits of their texts
Auteur :
Struck, Peter
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691162263
Date de publication :
10 mars 2014
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
513 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 di