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 "thing" 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
—