Poetry in the Song of Songs
Poetry in the Song of Songs

Author: Patrick Hunt

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781433104657

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This ground-breaking study explores the structure and literary figures in the biblical Hebrew poetry of the Song of Songs. These figures include simile, metaphor, paronomasia, parallelism, sensory cluster, fertility language - flowers, spices, and plants as well as animals and images of wealth - and many other literary devices, delineated but not limited to how they also appear in classical literature as defined by Aristotle, Quintilian, and others. This biblical poetry is also compared to the Greek poetry of Sappho and Egyptian love poetry as well as to the Ramayana and the Kamasutra. The Song of Songs is discreetly yet firmly interpreted as erotic literature.

The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives
The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives

Author: Jonathan L. Ready

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0198802552

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Presenting a new take on what made the Homeric epics such successful examples of verbal artistry, this volume explores the construction of the Homeric simile and the performance of Homeric poetry from the neglected comparative perspectives offered by the study of modern-day oral traditions.