The Stylus and the Scalpel : : Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Prose /

The Stylus and the Scalpel : : Theory and Practice of Metaphors in Seneca’s Prose / / Tommaso Gazzarri.

Seneca’s developed metaphors draw on what is known to describe the unknown. They put hard ethical in highly accessible, and often quite entertaining, terms. The present book provides a functional description of Seneca’s dialectical relation between metaphorical language and philosophy. It shows how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Gazzarri, Tommaso,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 91
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Theory: Seneca’s Rhetorical Strategies Between Stoic Tradition and Modern Linguistics
  • 1 Metasemes and the Classical Tradition
  • 2 Modern Theories on Metaphor and the Stoic System
  • 3 Metaphors, Emotions, and Moral Progress
  • Part II: Practice: The Text and The Body
  • 4 From Metaphor to Metaphors
  • 5 Metaphorical Physiology
  • 6 A Breathing Body
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Locorum

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