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Choreonarratives

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004462635
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Choreonarratives written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreonarratives, a collection of essays by classicists, dance scholars, and dance practitioners, explores the uses of dance as a narrative medium. Case studies from Greek and Roman antiquity illustrate how dance contributed to narrative repertoires in their multimodal manifestations, while discussions of modern and contemporary dance shed light on practices, discourses, and ancient legacies regarding the art of dancing stories. Benefitting from the crossover of different disciplinary, historical, and artistic perspectives, the volume looks beyond current narratological trends and investigates the manifold ways in which dance can acquire meaning, disclose storyworlds ranging from myths to individual life-stories, elicit the narratees’ responses, and generate powerful narratives of its own. Together, the eclectic approaches of Choreonarratives rethink dance’s capacity to tell, enrich, and inspire stories. Contributors are Sophie M. Bocksberger, Iris J. Bührle, Marie-Louise Crawley, Samuel N. Dorf, Karin Fenböck, Susan L. Foster, Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Sarah Olsen, Lucia Ruprecht, Karin Schlapbach, Danuta Shanzer, Christina Thurner, Yana Zarifi-Sistovari, Bernhard Zimmermann

Choral Tragedy

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516253
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Choral Tragedy written by Claude Calame and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009396714
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination by : Martin M. Winkler

Download or read book Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination written by Martin M. Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.

Dance as Third Space

Author : Heike Walz
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647568546
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Dance as Third Space written by Heike Walz and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance plays an important role in many religious traditions, in rites of passage, processions, healing rituals or festivals. But it is also controversial, especially in Christianity. Colonial European Christian discourses tend to separate dance from religion(s) and spirituality. This volume explores dance as "Third Space", following Homi Bhabha's postcolonial metaphor. The "Inter-Dance approach" combines interdisciplinary theoretical considerations with case studies. International experts examine dance controversies and discourses from the early church to World Christianity, as well as in Hasidic Judaism, Greek mysteries, Islamic Sufism, West African Togolese religions, and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda. Christian dance theologies are unfolded and the boundary-crossing potential of dance in interreligious and intercultural encounters is explored. The volume breaks new ground in how dance as ephemeral performative art, embodied thought and gendered discourse can transform studies of religion.

Radical Chicana Poetics

Author : Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343583
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Radical Chicana Poetics by : Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez

Download or read book Radical Chicana Poetics written by Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing.

Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature

Author : Andreas Serafim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111338673
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature by : Andreas Serafim

Download or read book Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature written by Andreas Serafim and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Latin literature: nonverbal behaviour, i.e., vocalics, kinesics, proxemics, haptics, and chronemics. The individual chapters explore texts from Homer to the 4th century AD to discuss aspects of nonverbal behaviour and how these are linked to, reflect upon, and are informed by general cultural frameworks in ancient Greece and Rome. Material sources are also examined to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the texts.

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198848293
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece by : Jonas Grethlein

Download or read book Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece written by Jonas Grethlein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches, opening up new vistas within the study of classical literature while ably deploying the ancient material to demonstrate the value of a historical perspective for cognitive studies. Concepts such as immersion and embodiment help to establish a more comprehensive understanding of ancient narrative and ancient reading habits, as manifested in Greek criticism and rhetorical theory. The thirteen chapters presented here tackle a broad range of narrative genres, broadly understood: besides epic, historiography, and the novel, tragedy and early Christian texts are also considered alongside non-literary media, such as dance and sculpture. Authored by international specialists in the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece, each chapter utilizes a rich set of theoretical and methodological tools drawn from cognitive studies, phenomenology, and linguistics that place them at the vanguard of a strong new current in classical scholarship and literary criticism more generally.

Music

Author : Eleonora Rocconi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193844
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Music written by Eleonora Rocconi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike-in all its facets-in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history. Since antiquity, music has consistently played a significant role in social and cultural life, and although the terms in which it is expressed and the cultural meanings it conveys vary dramatically across different times and geographies, the influence of the ancient Greek concept on modern Western notions is nevertheless striking. In a series of lucid and engaging thematic chapters, Eleonora Rocconi surveys the roles and functions of music from classical antiquity, through the Renaissance and early modern eras, and up to the present day. The discussion is structured around the key concepts, theoretical models, and aesthetic issues at play - from the educational and therapeutic value of music to its place in the ideal of cosmic harmony and its relationship to the senses and emotions - as well as the function of music in debates around individual and cultural identity. What emerges is a timely reassessment of the paradigmatic value of the Greek model in the musical reception of antiquity in different historical periods. It highlights the ongoing contribution of mousike to modern cultural debates within the realms of classics, musicology, philosophy, aesthetics, anthropology, performance, and cultural studies, as well as in artistic environments, and offers a clear and comprehensive account of its inexhaustible source of inspiration for musicians, theorists, scholars, and antiquarians across the centuries.

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Author : Carolyn Laferrière
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009315935
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art by : Carolyn Laferrière

Download or read book Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art written by Carolyn Laferrière and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Carolyn M. Laferrière examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs depicting the gods most frequently shown as musicians to reconstruct how images suggest the sounds of the music the gods made. Incorporating insights from recent work in sensory studies, she applies formal analysis together with literary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the musical culture of Athens. Laferrière shows how images suggest the sounds of the gods' music. This representational strategy, whereby sight and sound are blurred, conveys the 'unhearable' nature of their music: Because it cannot be physically heard, it falls to human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers' multisensory engagement. Moreover, when situated within their likely original contexts, the objects establish a network of interaction between the viewer, the visualized music, and the landscape, all of which determined how divine music was depicted, perceived, and reciprocated. Laferrière demonstrates that participation in the gods' musical performances offered worshippers an multisensory experience of divine presence.

Punchdrunk on the Classics

Author : Emma Cole
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031430670
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Punchdrunk on the Classics written by Emma Cole and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeing Theater

Author : Naomi Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520393082
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Theater written by Naomi Weiss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatron--literally, "the place for seeing." Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.

Unfinished Christians

Author : Georgia Frank
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512823961
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Christians written by Georgia Frank and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They neither led a religious community nor did they live in entirely Christian settings. In this period, an age marked by "extraordinary" Christians--wonderworking saints, household ascetics, hermits, monks, nuns, pious aristocrats, pilgrims, and bishops--ordinary Christians went about their daily lives, in various occupations, raising families, sharing households, kitchens, and baths in religiously diverse cities. Occasionally they attended church liturgies, sought out local healers, and visited martyrs' shrines. Barely and rarely mentioned in ancient texts, common Christians remain nameless and undifferentiated. Unfinished Christians explores the sensory and affective dimensions of ordinary Christians who assembled for rituals. With precious few first-person accounts by common Christians, it relies on written sources not typically associated with lived religion: sermons, liturgical instruction books, and festal hymns. All three genres of writing are composed by clergy for use in ritual settings. Yet they may also provide glimpses of everyday Christians' lives and experiences. This book investigates the habits, objects, behaviors, and movements of ordinary Christians by mining festal preaching by John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nyssa, and Romanos the Melodist, among others. It also mines liturgical instructions to explore the psalms and other songs performed on various feast days. "Unfinished," then, connotes the creativity and agency of unremarkable Christians who engaged in making religious experiences: the "Christian-in-progress" who learns to work with material and bring something into being; the artisans who attended sermons; and, more widely, the bearers of embodied knowing.

Translations of the Sublime

Author : Caroline A. van Eck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229558
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Translations of the Sublime written by Caroline A. van Eck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800.

The Theatre of Justice

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341870
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Justice written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts.

Ludonarrative Synchronicity in the 'BioShock' Trilogy

Author : Lyz Reblin-Renshaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030638685
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Ludonarrative Synchronicity in the 'BioShock' Trilogy written by Lyz Reblin-Renshaw and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new methodology, ludonarrative synchronicity, to analyze the interplay between narrative and gameplay in video games. Using the BioShock franchise as a case study, this book aims to show the interaction of these two elements can form various subjects. Rather than prioritizing one over the other, ludonarrative synchronicity seeks to explore how video game texts function. By analyzing a trio of games focused on choice and control, this book manages to show how players, along with developers, can create their own subjects. Ludonarrative Synchronicity in the BioShock Trilogy will appeal not only to fans of the franchise, but to students and scholars of narrative theory, game design, and posthumanism.

The Anatomy of Dance Discourse

Author : Karin Schlapbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198807724
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Dance Discourse written by Karin Schlapbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata, to the apocryphal Acts of John, Longus, and Apuleius. The volume is divided into two Parts: while the second Part discusses ekphraseis of dance performance in prose and poetry of the Roman imperial period, the first delves more deeply into an examination of how both philosophical and literary treatments of dance interacted with other areas of cultural expression, whether language and poetry, rhetoric and art, or philosophy and religion. Its distinctive contribution lies in this juxtaposition of ancient theorizations of dance and philosophical analyses of the medium with literary depictions of dance scenes and performances, and it attends not only to the highly encoded genre of pantomime, which dominated the stage in the Roman empire, but also to acrobatic, non-representational dances. This twofold nature of dance sparked highly sophisticated reflections on the relationship between dance and meaning in the ancient world, and the volume defends the novel claim that in the imperial period it became more and more palpable that dance, unlike painting or sculpture, could be representational or not: a performance of nothing but itself. It argues that dance was understood as a practice in which human beings, whether as dancers or spectators, are confronted with the irreducible reality of their own physical existence, which is constantly changing, and that its way to cognition and action is physical experience.

The Daśa-rúpa

Author : Dhanañjaya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Daśa-rúpa written by Dhanañjaya and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: