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

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 "symb...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Struck, Peter T. (Author)
Other title:	ACLS Fellows' publications.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:	Classical poetry > History and criticism. Symbolism in literature. Books and reading > Greece. Books and reading > Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Allegory. Books and reading. Classical poetry. Greece. Rome (Empire) Criticism, interpretation, etc.