Interaction in Poetic Imagery
This is an unusual and original contribution to literary theory. Michael Silk is a classicist, but his book is concerned not only with the literature of antiquity, but also with the theory of literature as such: it investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of ancient poetry. In the course of the investigation, many illustrative passages from English verse are discussed, but the corpus of poetry chosen for particular attention is early Greek lyric and drama (up to and...
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This book should be of interest to classicists and to specialists in literary theory in departments of English, Linguistics and Comparative Literature.
Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction:1. Interaction; 2. Dead metaphor and normal usage; 3. Aesthetics; Part II. The Categories: 4. Scope and procedure; 5. Neutral-based interaction; 6. Intrusion; 7. Interaction outside the grammar; 8. Aural interaction; 9. Combinations; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.
