Metaphor, Allegory And The Classical Tradition: Ancient Though

Description:
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. This volume provides a critical discussion of ancient definitions of allegory and metaphor as merely ornamental 'tropes'. They examine metaphor and allegory from a variety of perspectives and compare theory with ancient literary practice.

Review:
... intelligently conceived and well balanced ... this does identify most of the problems in question and provide an intelligent range of approaches with which readers will start to identify their own solutions to those problems. It is both a good collection of essays and a collection of good essays. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style; 3. THE HARLOT'S ART. METAPHOR AND LITERARY CRITICISM; 4. Plato on metaphors and models; 5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus; 6. The problem of metaphor. Chinese reflections; 7. Metaphor and metonymy. Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricoeur, and others; 8. FIGURES OF ALLEGORY FROM HOMER TO LATIN EPIC; 9. Allegory and exegesis in the Derveni papyrus. The origin of Greek scholarship; 10. The Stoics' two types of allegory; 11. The rhetoric of the Homeric Problems; 12. Origen on Christ, tropology, and exegesis