Birth of the symbol : ancient readers at the limits of their texts / Peter T. Struck.

Author/creator Struck, Peter T.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionx, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Classical poetry--History and criticism.
Symbolism in literature.
Books and reading--Greece.
Books and reading--Italy. --Rome.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Allegory.

Contents Introduction : the genealogy of the symbolic -- Symbols and riddles : allegorical reading and the boundaries of the text -- Beginnings to 300 B.C.E. : meaning from the void of chance and the silence of the secret -- From the head of Zeus : the birth of the literary symbol -- Swallowed children and bound gods : the diffusion of the literary symbol -- 300 B.C.E.-200 C.E. : the symbol as ontological signifier -- Iamblichus and the defense of ritual : talismanic symbols -- Moonstones and men that glow : Proclus and the talismanic signifier -- Epilogue : symbol traces : post-Proclean theories.
General noteBased on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and indexes.
LCCN 2003048609
ISBN0691116970 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PA3021 .S76 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold