Poliziano's Science of Tropes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820407883)

For Poliziano philology opens man to the experience of the uncanniness of tropes. In the Lamia he proposes a rethinking of philology's ontological status: philology as a science and encyclopedia of tropes. Such a critical frame-of-mind informs the major poetic writings. In the Stanze, Poliziano employs the trope of metalepsis as a means of both grounding a dialectic with the past, and reinventing a literary language. The Favola di Orfeo, whose aesthetic hub is nourished by the cognitive capacity of poetic utterance, is an allegory of metaphor's ability to lead to the disclosure of the originary locus.

Author: Paul Colilli
ISBN-10: 0820407887
ISBN-13: 9780820407883
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1988
Pages: 189
Format: Hardcover