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Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature : The World's Forge

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10445119" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10445119 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003154051/ecphrastic-shields-graeco-roman-literature-karel-thein" target="_blank" >https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003154051/ecphrastic-shields-graeco-roman-literature-karel-thein</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003154051" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003154051</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Ecphrastic Shields in Graeco-Roman Literature : The World's Forge

  • Original language description

    This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers the first detailed study of a large family of ancient ecphrastic shields, often studied separately, but never as an ensemble with its own development. The main objective consists of establishing a theoretical and historical framework that is applied to a series of famous ecphrastic shields starting with the Homeric shield of Achilles. The latter is reinterpreted as a paradigmatic &quot;thing&quot; whose echoing down the centuries is reinforced by the fundamental connection between ekphrasis and artefacts as its primary objects. The book demonstrates that although the ancient sources do not limit ekphrasis to artificial creations, the latter are most efficient in bringing out the intimate affinity between artefacts and vivid mental images as two kind of entities that lack a natural scale and are rightly understood as ontologically unstable.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    B - Specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • ISBN

    978-0-367-72254-8

  • Number of pages

    410

  • Publisher name

    Routledge

  • Place of publication

    London

  • UT code for WoS book