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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 November 2017
      02 November 2017
      ISBN:
      9781108131582
      9781107192652
      9781316642573
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108131582
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.555kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Art, Classical Literature, Western Art
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    In this bold book, Jonas Grethlein proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. Ancient material, he argues, has the capacity to challenge and re-orientate current debates. Comparisons with modern art and literature help to balance the historicism of classical scholarship with transcultural theoretical critique. Grethlein discusses ancient narratives and pictures in order to explore the nature of aesthetic experience. While our responses to both narratives and pictures are vicarious, the 'as-if' on which they are premised is specifically shaped by the form of the representation. Form emerges as a key to how narratives and pictures constitute an important means of engaging with experience. Combining theoretical reflections with close readings, this book will appeal to art historians as well as to textual scholars.

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