The Projected Heart: Ekphrasis, Material Imagination, and the Shield of Achilles

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Projected Heart: Ekphrasis, Material Imagination, and the Shield of Achilles

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper revisits Homer&apos;s description of the making of the shield of Achilles in light of the recent discussions on the relation between ekphrasis and materiality. In order to bring out the ecphrastic shield&apos;s animated &quot;thingness&quot; rather than a simply visualized &quot;objecthood&quot;, I focus on Homer&apos;s obvious cardiocentrism and his understanding of imagination as embodied power whose inner working is contiguous with the forging of metals that compose the shield. It is Hephaestus&apos; &quot;visionary diaphragm&quot; that projects forth the images, and it is this projection that the audience is supposed to emulate with the imagination of their own. At the same time, this emulation cannot erase the subtle yet persistent tension between the vivid evocation of details in particular scenes on the shield, and a striking lack of determination when it comes to the overall arrangement of these scenes and even to the shield&apos;s physical shape. This lack is not due to an omission: reinforcing the performative rather than descriptive nature of the shield, it makes us alert to the fact that the shield, insofar as it originally connects to our imagination, cannot be consistently understood as &quot;the cosmic icon&quot;: this is because we cannot coherently imagine one thing as enclosing all smaller things including ourselves as both its parts and its beholders. The second part of the study develops this focus on the shield&apos;s implied agency by turning to its fate in both the Iliad and later poetry, especially the Hellenistic epigrams. This turn confirms is that, regardless of the poetic genre, the shield of Achilles lives its neither natural nor simply artificial life on the ontologically ambiguous threshold of imaginary object and material thing.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Projected Heart: Ekphrasis, Material Imagination, and the Shield of Achilles

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper revisits Homer&apos;s description of the making of the shield of Achilles in light of the recent discussions on the relation between ekphrasis and materiality. In order to bring out the ecphrastic shield&apos;s animated &quot;thingness&quot; rather than a simply visualized &quot;objecthood&quot;, I focus on Homer&apos;s obvious cardiocentrism and his understanding of imagination as embodied power whose inner working is contiguous with the forging of metals that compose the shield. It is Hephaestus&apos; &quot;visionary diaphragm&quot; that projects forth the images, and it is this projection that the audience is supposed to emulate with the imagination of their own. At the same time, this emulation cannot erase the subtle yet persistent tension between the vivid evocation of details in particular scenes on the shield, and a striking lack of determination when it comes to the overall arrangement of these scenes and even to the shield&apos;s physical shape. This lack is not due to an omission: reinforcing the performative rather than descriptive nature of the shield, it makes us alert to the fact that the shield, insofar as it originally connects to our imagination, cannot be consistently understood as &quot;the cosmic icon&quot;: this is because we cannot coherently imagine one thing as enclosing all smaller things including ourselves as both its parts and its beholders. The second part of the study develops this focus on the shield&apos;s implied agency by turning to its fate in both the Iliad and later poetry, especially the Hellenistic epigrams. This turn confirms is that, regardless of the poetic genre, the shield of Achilles lives its neither natural nor simply artificial life on the ontologically ambiguous threshold of imaginary object and material thing.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Kreativita a adaptabilita jako předpoklad úspěchu Evropy v propojeném světě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Things in Poems: From the Shield of Achilles to Hyperobjects

ISBN

978-80-246-4939-9

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

17-34

Počet stran knihy

340

Název nakladatele

Nakladatelství Karolinum

Místo vydání

Praha

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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