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Bezig met laden... Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culturedoor Kate Gilhuly (Redacteur), Nancy Worman (Redacteur)
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Kate Gilhuly and Nancy Worman have gathered together the work of seven scholars, including their own, to produce a primer on the concepts of cultural geography and landscape studies and their application to a wide array of classical literature from Pindaric odes to forensic oratory, history to drama. There are eight chapters in the book, the first being an introduction to the terminology—place, space, and landscape—intertwined with a clear review of relevant scholarly literature, and the other seven individual studies that demonstrate the application of spatial analysis on a wide variety of texts. The essays gathered here are linked by “the critical potential that a consideration of space, place, and landscape brings to the study of Greek literature and culture” (p. 1), but each author defines, applies, and adapts these terms and associated methodologies for his or her specific arguments. This results in the challenge of reading the book as a whole. The common theme threaded throughout the book is both obvious, i.e. each exploration is clearly influenced by a ‘spatial turn’, and elusive, as the reader is forced to engage critically with a variety of literary genres, to switch gears from imagined landscapes or urban infrastructures to the poetic mapping of space or ritual creation of forensic venues. It is a dizzying array of approaches and insights, with some important new readings of well-known texts.
This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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