Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images Culture, Society and Reception
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
18.12.2023
Abbildungen
45 b/w and 7 col. Illustrationen
Herausgeber
Dafna Nissim + weitereVerlag
De GruyterSeitenzahl
258
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/16/1.5 cm
Gewicht
514 g
Auflage
1
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-11-124356-6
This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies.
The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.
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