1.

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787355603321

Autore

Pearson Christopher E. M.

Titolo

1000 Monuments de Genie / / Chris E. M. Pearson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Parkstone Press International, , [2014]

©[2014]

ISBN

1-84484-661-X

1-78310-454-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (544 p.)

Disciplina

711.6

Soggetti

Monuments

Architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Sommaire; Introduction; L'Afrique et le Moyen-Orient; L'Asie et l'Océanie; L'Europe, la Russie et la Turquie; Les Amériques; Biographies; Chronologie; Glossaire; Liste des illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

Depuis la mythique tour de Babel, les hommes ont toujours tenté d'ériger des monuments à la hauteur de leur ego démesuré. Que ce soit les antiques ziggourats, le Taj Mahal ou encore l'Empire State Building, l'homme n'a cessé, depuis des millénaires, de montrer sa puissance grâce à l'érection de ces bâtiments à l'utilité autant religieuse que profane. Témoignages aux mille visages, symboles des valeurs des peuples tels la dévotion, le patriotisme, la puissance ou encore symboles de leur grandeur, ces monuments, par la créativité et l'ingéniosité de leurs architectes, fascinent et attirent aujou