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Book synopsis

Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted-and continue to promote-systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's Aeneid and the Book of Revelation. Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies, chiefly Greek and Hebrew, Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Authority Figures
• Subtitle: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse
• Author: Christopher Collins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9780847682393
• ISBN: 0847682390
• ID: 04943055
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 228 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 1996

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