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Description:Oral, scripted and pictorial art has from its beginnings been focused on the lives of outstanding heroes and human beings: highborn men and women and their prowess, achievements, and errors of judgement – and their consequences. Such life stories involve a reversal in the narrated events that provide an example to the listener, reader or spectator, enabling them to avoid repeating the protagonist’s errors. By showing the effects of error and the reversals it produces, these narratives teach the audiences to change their ways and ‘convert’ to a new kind of life. In its more general sense conversion simply means a passage of one state to another, usually centering on a turning point; it may be based on personal choice and conviction, or it may occur as the result of outside forces or events. The articles in this volume collectively demonstrate the ontological complexity of such change and the mimetic representation thereof; they represent different aspects of what the Editors term «the mimesis of change» in the real or fictional lives of characters, exploring how writers and artists deploy the device of peripety to depict personal, social, political, spiritual, artistic and intellectual changes. They also explore the many forms this mimesis of change can take: narratives in letters, tales and autobiographical accounts; images in the shape of poetic moments and paintings; dramatized representation in drama, theatre and spectacle. Finally, since the articles study the mimesis of such change, and not simply the change itself, reception becomes a central theme. It is the purpose of peripety to lead to recognition and change also on the part of the audience of readers and spectators, whether this change takes the shape of the shameful admittance of sin or the relief of a lucky escape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories. To get started finding The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Fabrizio Serra editore

Release: 2020

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Description: Oral, scripted and pictorial art has from its beginnings been focused on the lives of outstanding heroes and human beings: highborn men and women and their prowess, achievements, and errors of judgement – and their consequences. Such life stories involve a reversal in the narrated events that provide an example to the listener, reader or spectator, enabling them to avoid repeating the protagonist’s errors. By showing the effects of error and the reversals it produces, these narratives teach the audiences to change their ways and ‘convert’ to a new kind of life. In its more general sense conversion simply means a passage of one state to another, usually centering on a turning point; it may be based on personal choice and conviction, or it may occur as the result of outside forces or events. The articles in this volume collectively demonstrate the ontological complexity of such change and the mimetic representation thereof; they represent different aspects of what the Editors term «the mimesis of change» in the real or fictional lives of characters, exploring how writers and artists deploy the device of peripety to depict personal, social, political, spiritual, artistic and intellectual changes. They also explore the many forms this mimesis of change can take: narratives in letters, tales and autobiographical accounts; images in the shape of poetic moments and paintings; dramatized representation in drama, theatre and spectacle. Finally, since the articles study the mimesis of such change, and not simply the change itself, reception becomes a central theme. It is the purpose of peripety to lead to recognition and change also on the part of the audience of readers and spectators, whether this change takes the shape of the shameful admittance of sin or the relief of a lucky escape.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories. To get started finding The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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