Author: COLLINS, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Authority Figures Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse
Description: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. ISBN: 0847682382. 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. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 196 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

Keywords: 0847682382 Greek & Roman Drama Literature & Fiction Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Movements & Periods Epic Poetry Greek


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