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Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural context, emphasizing the importance of the visual imagination in ancient responses to rhetoric, poetry and historiography. By linking the theoretical writings on ekphrasis with ancient theories of imagination, emotion and language, she brings out the persuasive and emotive function of vivid language in the literature of the period. This study also addresses the contrast between the ancient and the m...

Demons and Dancers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Demons and Dancers

Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.

Los Angeles Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Los Angeles Magazine

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1998-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonism and the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamental paradigms for the late antique attitude towards art and beauty. These metaphysical concepts of aesthetics are ultimately grounded in experiences of sensation and perception, and reflect the ways in which the world and reality were perceived and grasped, signifying the cultural identit...

Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume contains the expanded papers of a workshop held at the Warburg Institute in November 1992 on classical scholarship and in particular on textual criticism, commentaries and glosses, and questions of attribution. The volume concludes with a comprehensive bibliography which makes it an essential tool for anyone interested in the subject.

Theatre and Metatheatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Theatre and Metatheatre

The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many different, sometimes even contradictory, ways by modern scholars. Through a series of papers examining questions related to ancient Greek theatre and dramatic performances of various genres the use of those two terms is problematized and put into question. Must ancient Greek theatre be reduced to what was performed in proper theatre-buildings...

The Giles memorial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 523

The Giles memorial

Also genealogical sketches of the Pool, Very, Tarr and other families, with a history of premaquid, ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in maine; and some details of indian warfare.

Hear Her Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

Hear Her Voice

How does our gender impact our preaching? Can women express anger in a sermon? Why use a first person narrative sermon structure? After preaching for several years Christine Redwood realized both her preaching role models, and her theology, had come predominantly from men, so she spent the next six years researching feminist scholars and their readings of stories from the book of Judges. In this accessible book she shares what she has learnt including sample sermons and exercises for preachers wanting to grow in their craft. This is essential reading for preachers wanting to amplify marginal voices!

Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1961-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.