Textualization of Experience: Studies on Ancient Greek Literature

ISBN-13: 9783631832820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 238 str.

Pawel Majewski

Opis

The book is an interpretation of the Hellenistic Greek literature. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th-3rd centuries B.C. have "textualized experience", i.e. transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description.

Spis treści

A synthetic description of the processes that led to the creation of a "textual picture of the world". The author proves that "text culture" in European science and literature does not result from universal relations between language, world and experience, but is the result of cultural processes.

O autorze

Pawel Majewski, professor at the University of Warsaw. His books concern the influence of means of communication on the formation of cultural systems (Writing, Text, Literature, Warsaw 2013; The Speaking Lion, Warsaw 2018; The Feast of the Language, Warsaw 2019) and the works of Stanislaw Lem (Between an Animal and a Machine. Technological Utopia of Stanislaw Lem, Peter Lang 2018).