Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

Amy Lather (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6235-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Amy Lather, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms
Zusatzinfo	12 B/W illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4744-6235-9 / 1474462359
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6235-8 / 9781474462358
Zustand	Neuware