Modes of viewing in Hellenistic poetry and art / Graham Zanker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zanker, G. (Graham), 1947-

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics.

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Hellenistic--History and criticism.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic.

Description (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.

Description (Rhetoric).

Visual perception in literature.

Art and literature--Greece.

Art and literature.

Point of view (Literature).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Art, Hellenistic.

Physical Description:

xiv, 223 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans' defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker's exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Aims, Approaches, and Samples

2. Full Presentation of the Image

3. Reader or Viewer Supplementation

4. Reader or Viewer Integration

5. An Eye for the New: Poetic Genres, Iconographical Traditions

6. Viewing Pleasure and Pain

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269462

9781282269460

1282269461

9780299194536

0299194531

OCLC:

294954094