The somatics of style : the body in ancient Greek theories of verbal art
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "The Somatics of Style: The Body in Ancient Greek Theories of Verbal Art" brings to light the previously unexplored centrality of the body to conceptualizations of literary language and style in the Greco-Roman world. By focusing on the somatic terminology, metaphors, analogies, descriptions, and sensations at the heart of the theories and discussions of verbal art in Greek literary criticism in particular, I reveal that the critics creatively incorporated the experiences and aesthetics of musical performance into their treatises. Corporeality in Greek literary criticism, I argue, is the vehicle through which we can better understand how gradual, complex, and innovative the transition from oral modes of performance to written literary culture was in elite Greek circles
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Melzer, Alyson Lynn |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Thesis advisor | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Richard P |
| Thesis advisor | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Thesis advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Martin, Richard P |
| Degree committee member | Nightingale, Andrea Wilson |
| Degree committee member | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Alyson Melzer |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Alyson Lynn Melzer
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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