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Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse Christopher Collins
Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse
Christopher Collins
Examining texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues, to Virgil's "Aeneid" and the Book of Revelation, this book reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literacy canon have promoted (and still do promote) systems of inequality and social control.
196 pages, bibliography, index
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros) |
| Publicado | 8 de agosto de 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780847682386 |
| Editores | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Páginas | 196 |
| Dimensiones | 158 × 234 × 21 mm · 490 g |
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