Sean Alexander Gurd: 2 books
Work in Progress
Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also...
Dissonance
Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power...