Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783111243566 (ISBN)
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.
lt;strong>Dafna Nissim, Ben-Gurion Universität Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Vered Tohar, Bar-Ilan Universität, Ramat Gan, Israel.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.12.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 28 |
| Zusatzinfo | 45 b/w and 7 col. ill. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 514 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | burred boundaries • Early Modern Ages • Europa • Frühe Neuzeit • pre-modern culture • pre-modern Europe • reception studies • Rezeptionsforschung • verschwommene Grenzen • Vormoderne+Kultur |
| ISBN-13 | 9783111243566 / 9783111243566 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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