| Bodies of Speech: Text and Textuality in Aristotle Contributor(s): Zoran, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 144386062X ISBN-13: 9781443860628 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $81.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| Series: Texts and Embodiments in Perspective |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.1" (1.15 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Until Plato, poetry and oration were conceived as oral activities; writing, if considered at all, was conceived as a kind of tape-recorder. Aristotle was the first thinker who examined the products of the literate culture in which he lived as such: he conceived the works of poetry and oration not only as oral events, but also as written texts.Bodies of Speech reads Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric through this assumption, and shows how both are underlain by a systematic text theory, which contains semantic and communicational aspects.The semantic structure is hierarchic, or vertical, in nature, and it is constructed as a series of semantic layers, ordered on an axis between a surface level and a deep pattern.The communicational structure means the interrelation between speaker and recipient, which takes place on a single level, and is, thus, horizontally structured. Its discussion concerns the complex roles of the author (poet, orator) and the addressee (spectator, listener, reader).Finally, the book also discusses the larger structures surrounding the single text: the poetic and rhetoric genres as ordering principles and as historical phenomena developing in time.Aristotle's conception of the literary text, thus, is not a mere archeological remnant; it is a complex and profound theory, able to hold a lively and fruitful dialogue with modern theory. |
