Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
Jul 28, 1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-10
0847682390
ISBN-13
9780847682393
Description
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.