The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature, Anders Cullhed

Автор: Anders Cullhed
Название: The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature
ISBN: 3110310864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110310863
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 123910.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Anders Cullhed’s study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine’s critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.

Автор: Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm
Название: True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts
ISBN: 3110303124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110303124
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Рейтинг:
Цена: 123910.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread knowledge, religious or political beliefs. Furthermore, fiction has taken part in reflecting and shaping the cultural identity of communities as well as the identity of individuals. This volume aims to explore the concept and the use of fiction from different epochs, in different cultures and in different forms, both ancient and more recent. It covers a broad field of interests, from ancient literature, art, philosophy and theater to Bollywood productions, television series and modern electronic media. Twenty-three scholars from ten countries and from different areasand fields of interests in the Humanities assembled in Stockholm on a conference in August 2012 to exchange views on "Fiction in Global Contexts". This volume presents the results of their discussions. It contains fresh perspectives on issues and topics such as: the nature of fiction fiction and its relationship to "truth" the demand for and the function and uses of fiction the development of fiction from ancient to modern times different forms of fiction fiction in social contexts or in a gender perspective

Автор: Walsh Richard
Название: The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction
ISBN: 0814252478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814252475
Издательство: Неизвестно
Рейтинг:
Цена: 34870.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of communicative gesture. "The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction" by Richard Walsh argues the merit of such a perspective and demonstrates its radical implications for narrative theory. A new conception of fictionality as a distinctive rhetorical resource, somewhat like the master-trope of fictional narrative, cuts across many of the core theoretical issues in the field. The model, set out in chapter one, is subsequently tested and elaborated in relation to currently prevalent assumptions about narrativity and mimesis; narrative structure; the narrator and transmission; voice and mediacy; narrative media and cognition; and creativity, reception, and involvement. Throughout, the theoretical analysis seeks to vindicate readers intuitions about fiction without merely restating them: the result is a forceful challenge to many of narrative theory s orthodoxies. The rhetorical model of fictionality advanced in this book offers up new areas of inquiry into the purchase of fictiveness itself upon questions of narrative interpretation. It urges a fundamental reconception of the apparatus of narrative theory by theorizing the conditions of significance that make fictions conceivable and worthwhile."

Автор: Anders Cullhed
Название: The Shadow of Creusa: Negotiating Fictionality in Late Antique Latin Literature
ISBN: 3110559242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110559248
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Рейтинг:
Цена: 43330.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After a survey of Saint Augustine`s long drawn-out farewell to ancient poetry, the author examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage, elucidating a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and beyond.

Автор: Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm
Название: True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts
ISBN: 3110553007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110553000
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Рейтинг:
Цена: 24730.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In today`s world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments.This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to explore the idea and the use of fiction in different cultures.

Автор: Anders Cullhed, Lena Rydholm
Название: True Lies Worldwide: Fictionality in Global Contexts
ISBN: 3110303213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110303216
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 185890.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: In today’s world, fiction seems to be present everywhere, not only in traditional media such as books or movies, but on the web, in computer games or virtual environments.This book gathers twenty-three scholars from ten countries with the aim to explore the idea and the use of fiction in different cultures. It covers a broad field of interests, from classical literature, artand philosophy to modern media.