Mimetic contagion : art and artifice in Terence's Eunuch / Robert Germany.

The ancient Greeks and Romans sometimes conceived of works of art having a dynamic effect on viewers, inspiring them to direct imitation of what they saw represented. This 'mimetic contagion' might operate alongside aesthetic or rational communication in art and was in some cases integral...

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Main Author: Germany, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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