Christopher Collins is professor of English at New York University. His previous books include The Act of Poetry, Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia, and The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination.
A forceful and highly original study of the implications of the
organization of human discourse along the lines of personal
pronouns. . . . While clearly authoritative and not skimping its
evidence, Authority Figures is at the same time gracefully written
and easily accessible. As such it could be used in every pedagogic
context from beginning humanities courses to advanced seminars.
*Albert Cook, Brown University*
This study will be of great interest to those who share the
author's linguistic and anthropological approach to literature . .
. advanced scholars . . . will find . . . useful insights in it.
Those seeking to understand the achievements of Homer, Plato, and
Vergil will find much better approaches even in the area of
linguistics, which is an important focus of this study.
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