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Motion in Classical Literature - Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art (Hardcover)
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Motion in Classical Literature - Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art (Hardcover)
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Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in
impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are
expressive; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and
character. However, although the importance of space has recently
been realized with the advent of the 'spatial turn' in the
humanities, motion has yet to receive such attention, for all its
prominence in literature and its interest to ancient philosophy.
This volume begins with an exploration of motion in particular
works of visual art, and continues by examining the characteristics
of literary depiction. Seven works are then used as case-studies:
Homer's Iliad, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tacitus' Annals, Sophocles'
Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus, Parmenides' On Nature, and
Seneca's Natural Questions. The two narrative poems diverge
rewardingly, as do the philosophical poetry and prose. Important in
the philosophical poem and the prose history are metaphorical
motion and the absence of motion; the dramas scrutinize motion
verbally and visually. Each study first pursues the general roles
of motion in the particular work and provides detail on its
language of motion. It then engages in close analysis of particular
passages, to show how much emerges when motion is scrutinized.
Among the aspects which emerge as important are speed, scale, and
shape of movement; motion and fixity; the movement of one person
and a group; motion willed and imposed; motion in images and in
unrealized possibilities. The conclusion looks at these aspects
across the works, and at differences of genre and period. This new
and stimulating approach opens up extensive areas for
interpretation; it can also be productively applied to the
literature of successive eras.
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