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Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)
Robert Germany
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Description for Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)
Hardcover. This volume considers the phenomenon of mimetic contagion, whereby works of art draw viewers into direct imitation of themselves, and how it operates within specific historical contexts. Terence's Eunuch is used as a case study, situating the motif within the peculiarities of mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 602.
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the ... Read more
When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more dynamic effect on their viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This notion of 'mimetic contagion' was a persistent and widespread mode of framing response to art across the ancient world, discernible in both popular and elevated cultural forms, yet deployed differently in various historical contexts; it is only under the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198738732
SKU
V9780198738732
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About Robert Germany
The late Robert Germany studied Classics at the University of Texas, the University of Basel, and the University of Chicago. He previously taught at Trinity University and was Associate Professor of Classics at Haverford College. He worked primarily on Greek New and Roman comedy and Republican culture and was writing a monograph on the Unity of Time in ancient and ... Read more
Reviews for Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation)
This impeccably produced book is unpretentiously erudite; as the saying goes, much more than the sum of its (very many, ancient and modern) parts, impressively documented and arranged: literary-philological analysis and performance criticism, art-historical and anthropological inquiry, sociocultural and intellectual history. Germany regularly deploys critical theory pedagogically judiciously, painlessly introducing uninitiated readers to Benjamin, Foucault, Frazer, Gell, and Irigaray, ... Read more