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

Birth of the Symbol : : Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts / / Peter T. Struck.

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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 "symb...

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Struck, Peter T.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction. The Genealogy of the Symbolic
  • 1. Symbols and Riddles: Allegorical Reading and the Boundaries of the Text
  • 2. Beginnings to 300 B.C.E.: Meaning from the Void of Chance and the Silence Of The Secret
  • 3. From the Head of Zeus: The Birth of the Literary Symbol
  • 4. Swallowed Children and Bound Gods: The Diffusion of The Literary Symbol
  • 5. 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E.: The Symbol as Ontological Signifier
  • 6. Iamblichus and the Defense of Ritual: Talismanic Symbols
  • 7 Moonstones and Men that Glow: Proclus and the Talismanic Signifier
  • Epilogue. Symbol Traces: Post-Proclean Theories
  • Appendix. Chrysippus'S Reading and Authorial Intention: The Case of the Mural at Samos
  • Bibliography Of Ancient Authors
  • Bibliography Of Modern Authors
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index

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