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This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of
multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection
between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The
international scholars brought together here explore critical
questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of
mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or
inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of
mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a
distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and
falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient
writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions
in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in
forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see
in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the
invisible divine - prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye
cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in
displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.
This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of
multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection
between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The
international scholars brought together here explore critical
questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of
mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or
inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of
mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a
distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and
falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient
writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions
in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in
forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see
in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the
invisible divine - prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye
cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in
displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.
Die Autorin untersucht das Formenspektrum griechischer visueller
Poesie in ihrer sprachlichen und kulturgeschichtlichen Spannbreite:
Vom antiken Technopagnion, den Kuben und Trigona, uber die
byzantinischen "gewebten Verse" oder die neuzeitlichen figurierten
Lobgedichte bis hin zur Vielfalt experimenteller Formen in der
Moderne und der Code Poetry unserer Zeit. Die literaturhistorische
Darstellung berucksichtigt neben der rein textuellen Seite der
entsprechenden Artefakte auch deren medialen und performativen
Charakter und setzt sie in Bezug zu den internationalen
Stroemungen.
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