hThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion by

Description: hThe Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity by Patricia Cox Miller 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Millers 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. Table of Contents Contents: Introduction; Poetic images and nature: Preface; Adam ate from the animal tree: a bestial poetry of soul; Origen on the bestial soul: a poetics of nature; The Physiologus: A Poetics of Nature; Jeromes centuar: a hyper-icon of the desert; Poetic images and the body: Preface; Plenty sleeps there: the myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism; Pleasure of the text, text of pleasure: Eros and language. Origens Commentary on the Song of Song; The blazing body: ascetic desire in Jeromes Letter to Eustochium; Desert ascetism and The body from nowhere; Poetic images and theology: Preface; In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: Origens De principiis; Origen and the witch of Endor: toward an iconoclastic typology; Poetic words, abysmal words: reflections on Origens hermeneutics; In praise of nonsense: a piety of the alphabet in ancient magic; Words with an alien voice: gnostics, scripture and canon; Bibliography. Review Patricia Cox Miller [is] a master of the skillfully wrought essay, able to communicate far beyond her subdisciplines. Students of theology, hermeneutics, and comparative literature would do well to take notice... Millers essays make their most eloquent case for the ongoing relevance of Early Christian Studies to contemporary critical debate... [these essays present] vivid and imaginative visions. Journal of Religion There is very little work in late antique studies comparable to this collection. Cox Miller has brought the task of literary theory to late antiquity in a more thorough, and consequently more convincing, manner than anyone else... a book of essays that collectively have taught scholars of late aniquity so much about how to read our texts in the unsettling ways they were intended to be read. The Heythrop Journal Long Description 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 Millers 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. Details ISBN1138711950 Author Patricia Cox Miller Pages 298 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 1138711950 ISBN-13 9781138711952 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2020-10-16 Short Title The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Series Routledge Revivals Language English UK Release Date 2020-10-16 AU Release Date 2020-10-16 NZ Release Date 2020-10-16 Subtitle Essays in Imagination and Religion Alternative 9781138711990 DEWEY 880.93823 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141815190;

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