Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the ApocalypseRowman & Littlefield, 1996 - 202 páginas Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted--and continue to promote--systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's Aeneid and the Book of Revelation. Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies, chiefly Greek and Hebrew, Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds. |
Contenido
The Glamour of Authority | 1 |
The Iliad Pastoral Analogy and the Rules of Speech | 19 |
The Odyssey A Journey through a Concentric Figure | 41 |
Homer and the Anatomy of Inner Authority | 63 |
Plato Knowing Thy Selves | 87 |
Reading Internal Writing | 115 |
Transfiguration and Apocalypse | 143 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 189 |
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About the Author | |
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Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse Christopher Collins Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse Christopher Collins Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achaeans Achilles Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon aidôs ancient animals animus authoritative authority figures beast become body book of Revelation breathing called chapter chariot chest cholos command consciousness context culture dianoia discourse divine dominant earth epic epithumêtikon fate father function Georgic gods Greek head hear hearers heart Hektor herd hero Hinterland Homer horses human Iliad imagination immortal inner authority inner speech internal dialogue Jesus Julian Jaynes king language later Latin literate analogy logistikon logos means memory metaphor micropolis noos nouns obedient Odysseus Olympian one's oral outer passage pastoral analogy Patroklos person Phaedrus phrenes Plato poet political Polyphemus Poseidon pronominal paradigm pronoun psuchê reading refer Revelation rulers says scroll sêmantor shepherd silent social Socrates soul speak speaker status subvocal suggests Thersites thought thumoeides thumos Timaeus tradition transfigured translated tripartite Trojans utterance verb verbal Vergil voice volvere words writing Yahweh Zeus
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Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric ... Ahuvia Kahane Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture Christopher Collins Vista previa limitada - 2010 |