Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity - Jonas Grethlein

Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity

The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

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Buch | Softcover
315 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-64257-3 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
This study proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. It uses ancient narratives and pictures, comparing them with modern material, in order to explore the specific nature of aesthetic experience.
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 art historians as well as to textual scholars.

Jonas Grethlein holds the Chair in Greek Literature in the Department of Classics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. His authored publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth-Century BCE (Cambridge, 2010), Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2013), and Die Odyssee. Homer und die Kunst des Erzählens (2017). He is co-editor of Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian (Cambridge, 2012).

Prologue: the Sirens' song; 1. Introduction: the 'as-if' of aesthetic experience. Part I. Narratives: 2. Narratives: experiencing time; 3. The reconfiguration of time in Heliodorus' Ethiopica; 4. Beyond Heliodorus: Francois Ozon, Dans la maison; Part II. Pictures: 5. Pictures: the detached gaze; 6. Seeing (in) ancient vases; 7. Beyond ancient vase-painting: Rabih Mroue, The Fall of a Hair; Epilogue: the Sirens in Los Angeles.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 244 mm
Gewicht 555 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
ISBN-10 1-316-64257-7 / 1316642577
ISBN-13 978-1-316-64257-3 / 9781316642573
Zustand Neuware
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