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Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 3: Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms

Mars, Amy

 
9781474462365: Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1474462367 ISBN 13 : 9781474462365
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aesthetics Illustrates the cognitive vibrancy attributed to objects such as armor, textiles, and jewelry in Greek texts Combines new materialist and cognitivist theoretical approaches Offers innovative readings of passages from the Iliad, Odyssey, Works and Days, Theogony as well as from the works of Sappho, Alcman, Alcaeus, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Combining New Materialist and cognitive methodologies, Amy Lather shows the different ways in which matter interacted with mind in ancient Greek thought. Her readings centre on the concept of poikilia, a richly multivalent term in Greek aesthetics that is used to characterise artefacts as well as mental activity. By delineating patterns of interaction between living and inorganic beings through the lens of this aesthetic concept, Lather maps a body of canonical texts onto the new critical terrains comprised by the new materialisms and cognitive humanities and reveals the points of intersection between cognitive processes and the material entities produced by them. The result is an innovative contribution to both Classics and New Materialism studies, uncovering the intimate and reciprocal interaction between minds and matter as central to ancient Greek aesthetic experience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Amy Lather is Assistant Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of numerous articles on aesthetic experience in ancient Greek poetry and has been the recipient of a Center for Hellenic Studies fellowship as well as a Young Researcher Award from the Fondation Hardt.

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1474462367
ISBN 13 
9781474462365
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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