WHEN A GESTURE WAS EXPECTED; A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1999

0691002630 / 9780691002637

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Dustjacket has minor edgwear and faint creasing.; 0.74 x 9.51 x 6.45 Inches; 176 pages; When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy. All these works anticipated performing readers, and, as a result, they included prompts, places where a gesture could complete a sentence or amplify or comment on the written words. In this radical and highly accessible book, Alan Boegehold urges all readers to supplement the traditional avenues of classical philology with an awareness of the uses of nonverbal communication in Hellenic antiquity. This additional resource helps to explain some persistently confusing syntaxes and to make translations more accurate. It also imparts a living breath to these immortal texts. Where part of a work appears to be missing, or the syntax is irregular, or the words seem contradictory or perverse--without evidence of copyists' errors or physical damage--an ancient author may have been assuming that a performing reader would make the necessary clarifying gesture. Boegehold offers analyses of many such instances in selected passages ranging from Homer to Aeschylus to Plato. He also presents a review of sources of information about such gestures in antiquity as well as thirty illustrations, some documenting millennia-long continuities in nonverbal communication.…

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Titolo
WHEN A GESTURE WAS EXPECTED; A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
Autore
Boegehold, Alan L.
Editore
Princeton University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
1999
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0691002630
ISBN 13
9780691002637
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Classical Studies, Greek Literature

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