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Record Nr.

UNINA9910558689303321

Autore

Majewski Paweł

Titolo

Textualization of experience : studies on ancient Greek literature / / Paweł Majewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2020

Berlin : , : Peter Lang, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-631-83847-6

3-631-83846-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages)

Collana

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

Disciplina

880.9001

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism

Written communication - Greece - History - To 1500

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

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.