The Hellenistic aesthetic / Barbara Hughes Fowler.
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- 0299120406
- 0299120449
- 881.0109
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880.93829138 GRE Greek ritual poetics / | 881.009 BAC From Hittite to Homer : | 881.01 HES Theogony ; Works and days ; Shield / | 881.0109 FOW The Hellenistic aesthetic / | 882.01 AES Eumenides / | 882.01 ARI Frogs / | 882.01 ARI Aristophanes clouds / |
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 201-213.
Craft and elegance -- The sweetness of nature -- The baroque -- The burlesque -- The grotesque -- Passion -- Pathos -- The pathetic fallacy -- The creatures -- Eroticism -- Archaizing -- Skenographia, skiagraphia, and phantasia.
"Barbara Hughes Fowler introduces us to The Hellenistic Aesthetic by encouraging us to attend carefully to its "sparkle and music", Hellenistic poetry brought to Western literature many of the qualities which we think of as modern: an interest in animals (especially pets), babies, children, women, and grotesques; common or working people and the tools of their trades; landscapes; cities; the passions of romantic love and of sinning; pathos; burlesque. The literature parallels the subject matter of the visual arts, where we find fisherman, hunchbacks, dancing dwarfs, drunken old women, women who have died in childbirth, kitchen utensils, and the expression of emotion in the faces of creatures as well as people." -- Back cover.