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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 198 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
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Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume considers the phenomenon of mimetic contagion, whereby works of art draw viewers into direct imitation of themselves, and how it operates within specific historical contexts. Terence's Eunuch is used as a case study, situating the motif within the peculiarities of mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. |
| Contents |
Cover; Mimetic Contagion: Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; TERENTIAN METATHEATRICALITY; MIMETIC CONTAGION AND EKPHRASIS; INTRODUCTORY EPILOGUE; ONE: Judging Chaerea: The Role of the Painting; TWO: Quickening Images: Mimetic Contagion in Cultic and Erotic Art; MIMETIC CONTAGION IN THE EPHESIACA; THREE: Lifelike Likeness: Mimetic Contagion in the Philosophical Tradition; MIMETIC CONTAGION AND (PLATONIC) MIMESIS; FOUR: Mimetic Contagion in Terence's Rome; ART IN ROMAN COMEDY; EUNUCH |
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FIVE: Mimic Rape: Genre Switching and Role ConfusionCOMEDY'S OTHER; UN-TERENCE IN THE PROLOGUES; IMITATIO VITAE AND VITALIS; CONTAGIOUS MIME IN XENOPHON'S SYMPOSIUM; CHAEREA STUPIDUS; MIME AND BODY; CODE SWITCH: MIME; EKPHRASTIC ROLE CONFUSION; SIX: The Poetics of Contamination; CONTAMINATED EUNUCH; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Terence. Eunuchus.
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Eunuchus (Terence) |
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Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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Latin drama (Comedy) |
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Imitation in literature.
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Imitation in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Germany, Robert. Mimetic contagion. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780198738732 0198738730 (OCoLC)963818597 |
| ISBN |
9780191058875 (electronic book) |
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0191058874 (electronic book) |
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9780191803017 |
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0191803014 |
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9780198738732 |
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0198738730 |
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