Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images

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  • Author : Dafna Nissim
  • Release Date : 2023-12-18
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 453
  • ISBN 13 : 3111244105
  • File Size : 87,87 MB
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Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images by Dafna Nissim PDF Summary

Book Description: This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.

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