Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images (eBook)

Culture, Society and Reception

Dafna Nissim, Vered Tohar (Herausgeber)

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2023
265 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-124410-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Dafna Nissim, Ben-Gurion Universität Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; Vered Tohar, Bar-Ilan Universität, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
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• Zusatzinfo: 45 b/w and 7 col. ill.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: burred boundaries • Early Modern Ages • Europa • Frühe Neuzeit • pre-modern culture • pre-modern Europe • reception studies • Rezeptionsforschung • verschwommene Grenzen • Vormoderne+Kultur
• ISBN-10: 3-11-124410-5 / 3111244105
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-124410-5 / 9783111244105