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Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses by Butler, Shane;Purves, Alexander is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses about?
Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Contributors 8 Introduction: synaesthesia and the ancient senses 10 1. Why are there nine Muses? 18 2. Haptic Herodotus 36 3. The understanding ear: synaesthesia, paraesthesia and talking animals 52 4. Aristophanes, Cratinus and the smell of comedy 62 5. "Looking mustard": Greek popular epistemology and the meaning of δριμύς 80 6. Plato, beauty and "philosophical synaesthesia" 98 7. Manilius' cosmos of the senses 112 8. Reading death and the senses in Lucan and Lucretius 124 9. Colour as synaesthetic experience in antiquity 136 10. Blinded by the light: oratorical clarity and poetic obscurity in Quintilian 150 11. The sense of a poem: Ovids Banquet of Sence (1595) 164 12. Saussure's anaphonie: sounds asunder 176 13. Beyond Narcissus 194 Bibliography 210 Index 230
Who reads Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Butler, Shane;Purves, Alexander
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction