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Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 3: Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms

Lather, Amy

 
9781474462365: Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry (Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474462367 ISBN 13: 9781474462365
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Amy Lather is Assistant Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of numerous articles on aesthetic experience in ancient Greek poetry and has been the recipient of a Center for Hellenic Studies fellowship as well as a Young Researcher Award from the Fondation Hardt.

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Illuminates the reciprocal interaction between minds and materials as a fundamental feature of ancient Greek aestheticsCombining 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 is Assistant Professor of Classics at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474462367
ISBN 13 
9781474462365
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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