Allegory: the dynamics of an ancient and medieval technique.

Whitman, Jon, 1949-

Published by Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987

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very good dust-jacket, attractive copy, very good dark blue cloth. WHITMAN, JON. Allegory: the dynamics of an ancient and medieval technique. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987, 1st printing number line ending with 1, xiv, 281pp., . CONTENTS: The allegorical problem -- Ancient configurations. Homeric origins: Goddess, man, passion ; Pre-Socratic gods: Platonic soul ; Stoic cosmology: Physis and Mythos ; Stoic psychology: Logos and Pathos ; Epic modulations and Virgil's 'Marriage' -- Rites of passage: Transitions between antiquity and the Middle ages. The early Christian milieu: Text, being, time ; Origen's descent; Antony's ascent ; Augustine and Prudentius: Digressions and progressions ; Macrobius' dream; Martianus' awakening ; Fulgentius and Boethius: Inversions and conversions -- Ages of renewal: The early medieval period. God's books and Bede's tropes ; Raban Maur's Spring; A Carolingian 'Revival' ; Eriugena's theophany -- Twelfth-century genesis. Movements of regeneration ; Matter: The conservation of power ; Creation: The delegation of power -- The allegory of creation: The Cosmographia. 9780674016453 ISBN 0674016459. Seller Inventory # 98157

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Title: Allegory: the dynamics of an ancient and ...

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition