Janet Downie

At the Limits of Art

A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At the Limits of Art investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the Hieroi Logoi.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9780199924875
• ISBN-10: 0199924872
• Artikelnr.: 36952340

Autorenporträt

Janet Downie is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Author in Search of a Character
1. Hieroi Logoi: The God in the Text
2. Dream Description and Dream Hermeneutics
3. Salvum Lotum! A Rhetor's Improvised Baths
4. A Prose Hymn For Asclepius?
5. "Immunity" and a Literary Afterlife
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index