Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

Cover
Half Title
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Sirens’ Song
	The Spell of the Sirens
	Eyeing the Sirens’ Song
1 Introduction: The ‘As-If’ of Aesthetic Experience
	1.1 Philostratus: Plunging into Painted Narratives
	1.2 The ‘As-If’ of Aesthetic Experience: Kendall Walton’s ‘Make-Believe’
	1.3 Narrative and Picture: Lessing’s Laokoon
Part I: Narratives
	2 Narratives: Experiencing Time
		2.1 The ‘As-If’ of the Reading Experience
		2.2 Phenomenological Time: Husserl
		2.3 Phenomenological Time and Narrative
			Augustine: From Everyday Experience to Reading Experience
			The Mimesis and Reconfiguration of Time and Experience in Narrative
		2.4 The Spatialization of Narrative
		2.5 Narrative Form and Literary History
	3 The Reconfiguration of Time in Heliodorus’ Ethiopica
		3.1 Time and the Ancient Novel
		3.2 The Opening Scene
		3.3 Reconfiguration of Time
			Curiosity
			Suspense
		3.4 Spatial Form
			Description
			Anachronies
			Non-Sequential Modes of Coherence
		3.5 Reflecting on Immersion
			Enargeia
			Narrative Time
			Reading and Erōs
			Self-Reference and Immersion
		3.6 Narrative and Experience in Antiquity
	4 Beyond Heliodorus: François Ozon, Dans la Maison
		4.1 The Internal Response: Germain
		4.2 Viewing Dans la Maison
		4.3 Ozon and Heliodorus
Part II: Pictures
	5 Pictures: The Detached Gaze
		5.1 Pictures as Agents?
		5.2 Pictorial Seeing
			Perception and Semiotics
			Wollheim: ‘Seeing-in’
			‘Seeing-in’ and ‘Seeing-as’
		5.3 ‘Seeing-in’ and Time
		5.4 ‘Seeing-in’ and the Varieties of Pictures
	6 Seeing (in) Ancient Vases
		6.1 Ancient Visual Culture: Immersion
		6.2 Vase-Painting and ‘Seeing-in’
		6.3 Reflections on ‘Seeing-in’: The Blinding of Polyphemus
			The Eleusis Amphora
			Seeing Polyphemus’ Loss of Sight
		6.4 Reflections on ‘Seeing-in’: Gorgo Beheaded
			The Frontal Stare of the Gorgo
			The Gorgo Reflected
			The Gorgo in the Mirror
			Gorgo and Narcissus
		6.5 ‘Seeing-in’ in the Symposium
	7 Beyond Ancient Vase-Painting: Rabih Mroué, The Fall of a Hair
		7.1 Reflections on Pictorial Seeing
		7.2 Syrian Snipers Between Polyphemus and Gorgo
Epilogue: The Sirens in Los Angeles
References
General Index
Index Locorum