Textualization of experience : studies on ancient Greek literature / Pawe Majewski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Majewski, Pawe, author.

Series:

Studies in Classical Literature and Culture ; 2196-9779 Volume 12,

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Written communication--Greece--History--To 1500.

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2020

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2020]

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-631-83847-6

3-631-83846-8