Textualization of Experience Studies on Ancient Greek Literature
The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, tr...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2020
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Series: | Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
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Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description - as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture. |
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Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (238 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783631838488 9783631838471 9783631832820 9783631838464 b17719 |