The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity : Essays in Imagination and Religion.
This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2019.
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| Series: | Routledge revivals.
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| Summary: | This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions. Attending to the play of language, as well as to the late ancient sensitivity to image, metaphor, and paradox, Cox Miller's work highlights the poetizing sensibility that marked many of the texts of this period and draws on methods of interpretation from a variety of contemporary literary-critical theories. This book will appeal to scholars of late antiquity, religious literature, and literary critical theory more widely, illustrating how fruitful dialogue across the centuries can be - not only in eliciting aspects of late ancient texts that have gone unnoticed but also in showing that many 'modern' ideas, such as Roland Barthes', were actually already alive and well in ancient texts. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781315199535 131519953X 9781351776356 1351776355 9781351776349 1351776347 9781351776332 1351776339 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Patricia Cox Miller. |