At the Limits of Art
A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 July 2013
- ISBN 9780199924875
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 236x163x22 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
At the Limits of Art investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the Hieroi Logoi.
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Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi present a unique first-person narrative from the ancient world--a narrative that seems at once public and private, artful and naive. While scholars have embraced the Logoi as a rich source for Imperial-era religion, politics, and elite culture, the style of the text has presented a persistent stumbling block to literary analysis. Setting this dream-memoir of illness and divine healing in the context of Aristides' professional concerns as an orator, this book investigates the text's rhetorical aims and literary aspirations. At the Limits of Art argues that the Hieroi Logoi are an experimental work. Incorporating numerous dream accounts and narratives of divine cure in a multi-layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that is transparent to the divine. Reading the Logoi in the context of contemporary oratorical practices, and in tandem with Aristides' polemical orations and prose hymns, the book uncovers the professional agendas motivating this unusual self-portrait. Aristides' sober view of oratory as a sacred pursuit was in conflict with a widespread contemporary preference for spectacular public performance. In the Hieroi Logoi, Aristides claims a place in the world of the Second Sophistic on his own terms, offering a vision of his professional inspiration in a style that pushes the limits of literary convention.
Throughout this monograph, Downie displays a mature and responsible approach to her source-material, and the reader is never lost...The bibliography used is thorough and up-to-date. Editing is diligent. Language and style are attractive.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Author in Search of a Character
1. Hieroi Logoi: The God in the Text
2. Dream Description and Dream Hermeneutics
3. Salvum Lotum! A Rhetor's Improvised Baths
4. A Prose Hymn For Asclepius?
5. "Immunity" and a Literary Afterlife
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
