Jonas Grethlein

Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781107192652
• ISBN-10: 110719265X
• Artikelnr.: 48208812

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.