| Description |
1 online resource (x, 269 pages) |
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Oxford early Christian studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
'Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors' analyses Christian Greek literature in the fourth century in order to emphasise the style, ingenuity, and craftsmanship demonstrated by the authors of such texts. It considers the way these 'wordsmiths' used classical literature techniques to strengthen their theological writings |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2020 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 22, 2020) |
| Subject |
Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism
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Christian literature, Early -- Technique
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Christian literature, Early
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191883217 |
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0191883212 |
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9780192588654 |
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0192588656 |
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