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Author Chaston, Colleen, author.

Title Tragic props and cognitive function : aspects of the function of images in thinking / by Colleen Chaston
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 269 pages) : illustrations
Series Mnemosyne. Supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 317. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 317.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Contents Introduction. Aristotle's opsis ; The sorts of images we find in tragedy ; Cognitive psychology and the role of imagery in problem solving -- The shield : Aiskhylos, Seven against Thebes : 375-676 -- The urn : Sophokles, Elektra -- The mask of Dionysos : Euripides, Bakkhai
Summary "By applying aspects of cognitive psychology to a study of three key tragic props, this book examines the importance of visual imagery in ancient Greek tragedy. The shield, the urn and the mask are props which serve as controls for investigating the connection between visual imagery and the spectators' intellectual experience of tragic drama. As vehicles for conceptual change the props point to a function of imagery in problem solving. Connections between the visual and the cognitive in tragedy, particularly through image shape and its potential for various meanings, add a new perspective to scholarship on the role of the visual in ancient performance. These connections also add weight to the importance of imagery in contemporary problem solving an creative thought."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and indexes
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Subject Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Greece -- History
Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Imagery (Psychology) in literature
Theater
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery
Tragödie
Bildersprache
Metapher
Symbolik
Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047430827
9047430824
1283292467
9781283292467