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Art, craft, and theology in fourth-century Christian authors
UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Cover -- Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- A. VISUAL, VERBAL, AND SPIRITUAL CRAFT -- B. MIMĒSIS: REPRESENTATION, EMULATION, IMITATION -- i. Representing the Real: Ekphrasis and Prosōpopoeia -- ii. Emulating Literary Tradition: Adaptation and Experimentation -- iii. Imitating the Good -- C. IMITATION AND THE 'SECOND SOPHISTIC' -- i. Nineteenth-Century Classicists' Debates -- ii. Recent Classical Scholarship -- iii. Late-Antique Christian Literature -- iv. Recovering Mimēsis
6 Role-playing: Prosōpopoeia and Embodied Performance -- A. PROSŌPOPOEIA: AUTHORITY, EMOTION, AND RISK -- i. Appropriate, but Hypothetical -- ii. Emotional -- iii. Risky -- B. THE NORMS AND LIMITS OF WOMEN'S SPEECH -- i. Women's Ability to Exercise Authoritative Public Speech -- ii. Women's Speech in Epic and Drama -- iii. Plutarch's Exceptional Women -- C. LOW STATUS AND PUBLIC SPEECH -- i. Political Speech -- ii. Stage -- D. PERFORMING BODIES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: STAGE AND LAW-COURT -- i. The Continuing Influence of Drama -- ii. Performing Bodies on Stage
D. ART, CRAFT, AND THEOLOGY -- i. Beyond Mimēsis -- ii. Craft (Technē) -- E. STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- Part I Experimenting with Pictures -- 2 Ekphrasis: Seeing Things Differently -- A. EKPHRASIS AS A TOOL OF THE TRADE -- i. Function -- ii. Vividness (Enargeia) -- iii. Emotion -- iv. The Impact of Images -- B. 'BRINGING WHAT IS PORTRAYED CLEARLY BEFORE THE SIGHT' -- i. Presence -- ii. Two Kinds of Detail -- iii. Engaging the Audience -- C. CRAFTSMANSHIP -- i. Order -- ii. Reading Things as Texts -- iii. Variety -- D. EKPHRASIS PROMPTS QUESTIONS -- i. Who Is the Maker? -- ii. Who Is the Observer?
Ii. Character -- iii. Mood -- iv. Reflection on the Craft of Words -- C. GARDENS, LANDSCAPES, AND GREGORY OF NYSSA -- D. HOMILIES ON THE SONG OF SONGS V -- i. Form and Structure -- ii. Mood -- iii. Character -- iv. Divine Discourse -- E. CONCLUSIONS -- 5 Ascetic Landscapes and Aesthetic Landscapes -- A. LANGUAGE AND PLACE -- B. SETTING THE SCENE -- C. BASIL'S ASCETIC RETREAT IN PONTUS: BEAUTIFUL AND USEFUL? -- D. TWO MEN IN A LANDSCAPE: GARDENS, ISLANDS, AND ENCLOSURES -- E. BASIL AND GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS ARGUE ABOUT A PLACE -- Part II Experimenting with Voice
Iii. Why Is It Absent? -- E. SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY -- 3 Ekphrasis and Decision -- A. PROVOKING A REACTION -- B. GAZING ON CORPSES WITH PLATO -- C. SEEING DEATH WITH THE CAPPADOCIANS -- i. Disgust and Hope in Gregory of Nyssa -- ii. 'Some Day All This Beauty Will Melt Away' -- iii. 'People Who Are Both Dead and Alive' -- iv. The Judgment Seat of Christ -- D. JUDGEMENT, DISCERNMENT, AND ACTION -- 4 The Rhetoric of Landscape in Gregory of Nyssa's Homilies on the Song of Songs -- A. INTRODUCTION -- B. LANDSCAPES AND GARDENS IN THE ANCIENT IMAGINATION -- i. Nature Tamed and Bounded
This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.