Authority Figures

Authority Figures PDF Author: Christopher Collins
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847682393
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book 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.