Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses 9781844655618, 9781844655625, 9781317547136, 9781317547143, 1317547144

367 102 9MB

English Pages 239 pages Year 2014

Report DMCA / Copyright

DOWNLOAD FILE

Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses
 9781844655618, 9781844655625, 9781317547136, 9781317547143, 1317547144

Table of contents :
Introduction, Shane Butler and Alex Purves1. Why Are There Nine Muses?, James I. Porter2. Haptic Herodotus, Alex Purves3. The Understanding Ear: Synaesthesia, Paraesthesia, and Talking Animals, Mark Payne4. Aristophanes, Cratinus and the Smell of Comedy, Mario Telo5. "Looking Mustard": Greek Popular Epistemology and the Meaning of aneiyo, Ashley Clements6. Plato, Beauty and "Philosophical Synaesthesia", Ralph M. Rosen7. Manilius' Cosmos of the Senses, Katharina Volk8. Reading Death and the Senses in Lucan and Lucretius, Brian Walters9. Colour as Synaesthetic Experience in Antiquity, Mark Bradley10. Blinded by the Light: Oratorical Clarity and Poetic Obscurity in Quintilian, Curtis Dozier11. The Sense of a Poem: Ovids Banquet of Sence (1595), Sean Keilen12. Saussure's Anaphonie: Sounds Asunder, Joshua Katz13. Beyond Narcissus, Shane ButlerBibliographyIndex

Polecaj historie