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Mimetic contagion : art and artifice in Terence's Eunuch /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; TERENTIAN METATHEATRICALITY; MIMETIC CONTAGION AND EKPHRASIS; INTRODUCTORY EPILOGUE; ONE: Judging Chaerea: The Role of the Painting; TWO: Quickening Images: Mimetic Contagion in Cultic and Erotic Art; MIMETIC CONTAGION IN THE EPHESIACA; THREE: Lifelike Likeness: Mimetic Contagion in the Philosophical Tradition; MIMETIC CONTAGION AND (PLATONIC) MIMESIS; FOUR: Mimetic Contagion in Terence's Rome; ART IN ROMAN COMEDY; EUNUCH
- FIVE: Mimic Rape: Genre Switching and Role ConfusionCOMEDY'S OTHER; UN-TERENCE IN THE PROLOGUES; IMITATIO VITAE AND VITALIS; CONTAGIOUS MIME IN XENOPHON'S SYMPOSIUM; CHAEREA STUPIDUS; MIME AND BODY; CODE SWITCH: MIME; EKPHRASTIC ROLE CONFUSION; SIX: The Poetics of Contamination; CONTAMINATED EUNUCH; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX