Abstract:
We analyze a group of literary motifs for building fictive interactions, recurring across one of the richest examples of affective communication in Greek literature: the expression of the causes and effects of love in terms of scenes between lover and beloved. In this thematic set, the poetic expression of love is articulated through a direct or indirect interaction between lover and beloved. We expose the main patterns for the integration of concepts that recur across such interactions, showing how entrenched cognitive templates interplay with different cultural contexts and aesthetic goals. Across different periods, authors blend a variety of conceptual elements, producing different levels of fantasy and mediation between the lover’s viewpoint and the beloved’s ‘reality’. Although there is significant variation in how these scenes are built across periods and genres, they all share a core structure and a number of flexible rules that are based on fundamental cognitive operations. Understanding this cognitive core allows us to model how the meaning is built by the different texts. Examining how particular texts use the template for their specific purposes shows us that cognitive structures with arguably a universal nature are not rigid patterns but fluid recipes, providing starting points for creating novel meanings through skillful usage.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- Towards a new critical edition of the scholia to the Iliad: a specimen
- Able leaders and fallible men: success and excess in Iliadic battle exhortations
- The Cult of Demeter on Andros and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Interactions with the Beloved in Greek Literature: Conceptual Blending and Levels of Representation
- The Drunken World of Dionysos
- When prophecy drives the prophet crazy (Aesch. Sept. 792–821, 832–839)
- Furia as an Auctor in Seneca’s Thyestes
- Lost Dictionaries, Forgotten Entries. Two Byzantine lexica on the Athenian ΣΩΦΡΟΝΙΣΤΑΙ
- List of Contributors