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Forgotten paths : etymology and the allegorical mindset
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- Creator
- Davide Del Bello
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- JSTOR ebooks
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9780813216928, 0813216923, 081321484X, 9780813214849
- OCLC
- ocn427511061
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
- English.
- 1. The science of etymology : from "sound" laws to plausible conjectures -- 2. Nomen est omen : etymology and allegory -- 3. The names of heroes : Greek and Alexandrian etymologizing -- 4. Quartus gradus etymologiae : the Roman contribution -- 5. Allegorical etymology as a Denkform : the middle ages of Isidore -- 6. Emithologica : etymology's riddles from 1500 to 1700 -- 7. Redefining difference : allegorical etymology in de Man, Derrido, and Vico -- 7. Alternative routes