Birth of the Symbol

Name: Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691116976
Price: 4821.00 INR
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Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

by Peter Struck

Princeton University Press

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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 "symbol." The book notes that Aristotle and his followers did not discuss the use of poetic symbolism.

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