Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Butler, Shane; Purves, Alex

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explores the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317547143
• Artikelnr.: 41501306

Autorenporträt

Shane Butler is Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, most recently, of The Ancient Phonograph (2015), and editor of Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception (2016). He is also co-editor, with Mark Bradley, of this series, as well as being co-editor, with Alex Purves, of its first volume, Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013). Alex Purves is Professor of Classics at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative (2010) and co-editor, with Shane Butler, of Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (2013), published in this "Senses in Antiquity" series. Her most recent book, Homer and the Poetics of Gesture, is forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Shane Butler and Alex Purves; 1. Why Are There Nine Muses?
James I. Porter; 2. Haptic Herodotus
Alex Purves; 3. The Understanding Ear: Synaesthesia
Paraesthesia
and Talking Animals
Mark Payne; 4. Aristophanes
Cratinus and the Smell of Comedy
Mario Telo; 5. "Looking Mustard": Greek Popular Epistemology and the Meaning of aneiyo
Ashley Clements; 6. Plato
Beauty and "Philosophical Synaesthesia"
Ralph M. Rosen; 7. Manilius' Cosmos of the Senses
Katharina Volk; 8. Reading Death and the Senses in Lucan and Lucretius
Brian Walters; 9. Colour as Synaesthetic Experience in Antiquity
Mark Bradley; 10. Blinded by the Light: Oratorical Clarity and Poetic Obscurity in Quintilian
Curtis Dozier; 11. The Sense of a Poem: Ovids Banquet of Sence (1595)
Sean Keilen; 12. Saussure's Anaphonie: Sounds Asunder
Joshua Katz; 13. Beyond Narcissus
Shane Butler; Bibliography