The poetry of thought in late antiquity : essays on imagination and religion
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The poetry of thought in late antiquity : essays on imagination and religion
Ashgate, c2001
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Bibliography: p. [271]-287
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An exploration of nature in the poetry of late antiquity. Nature engaged late ancient authors in a variety of ways. It produced sheer wonder at its strange beauty, but it also provoked complex readings that treated it as a cache of riddles that needed to be deciphered. Beginning with the Hellenistic "Physika" (literary compendia of the elements of nature often arranged alphabetically) and continuing through the late ancient Christian genre of the Hexaemeron (commentaries on the six days of creation in the book of Genesis), interpreters surveyed the natural world for the wisdom it has to offer. Generally animals claimed attention in this period not as objective specimens to be classified scientifically but rather as indicators of a dynamic process that was defined both theologically and psychologically. The author calls this the "bestial imagination", and this is the focus of some of the essays in the book.
目次
- Part 1 Poetic images and nature: "Adam Ate from the Animal Tree" - a bestial poetry of soul
- Origen on the bestial soul - a poetics of nature
- the "Physiologus" - a "Poiesus" of nature
- Jerome's centaur - a hyper-icon of the desert. Part 2 Poetic images and the body: "Plenty Sleeps There" - the myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and gnosticism
- "Pleasure of the Text, Text of Pleasure" - Eros and language in Origen's "Commentary on the Song of Songs"
- the blazing body - ascetic desire in Jerome's "Letter to Eustochium"
- desert asceticism and "The Body From Nowhere". Part 3 Poetic images and theology: "In My Father's House Are Many Dwelling Places" - Origen's "De principiis"
- Origen and the Witch of Endor - toward an iconoclastic typology
- poetic words, abysmal words - reflections on Origen's hermeneutics
- in praise of nonsense - a piety of the alphabet in ancient magic
- "Words With an Alien Voice" - gnostics, scripture, and canon.
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