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Aesthetic experiences and classical antiquity : the significance of form in narratives and pictures
- Title
- Aesthetic experiences and classical antiquity : the significance of form in narratives and pictures / Jonas Grethlein, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
- Author
- Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 18-140 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 301 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In this bold book, Jonas Grethlein proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. Ancient material, he argues, has the capacity to challenge and re-orientate current debates. Comparisons with modern art and literature help to balance the historicism of classical scholarship with transcultural theoretical critique. Grethlein discusses ancient narratives and pictures in order to explore the nature of aesthetic experience. While our responses to both narratives and pictures are vicarious, the 'as-if' on which they are premised is specifically shaped by the form of the representation. Form emerges as a key to how narratives and pictures constitute an important means of engaging with experience. Combining theoretical reflections with close readings, this book will appeal to textual scholars as well as to art historians"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: the Sirens' song -- Introduction: the 'as-if' of aesthetic experience -- I. Narratives. Narratives: experiencing time ; The reconfiguration of time in Heliodorus' Ethiopica ; Beyond Heliodorus: François Ozon, Dans la maison -- II. Pictures. Pictures: the detached gaze ; Seeing (in) ancient vases ; Beyond ancient vase-painting: Rabih Mroué, The Fall of a Hair -- Epilogue: the Sirens in Los Angeles.
- Call Number
- JFF 18-140
- ISBN
- 9781107192652
- 110719265X
- LCCN
- 2017024643
- OCLC
- 989046614
- Author
- Grethlein, Jonas, 1978- author.
- Title
- Aesthetic experiences and classical antiquity : the significance of form in narratives and pictures / Jonas Grethlein, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-140