Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hollmann, Alexander
Titre(s) : The master of signs [Texte imprimé] : signs and the interpretation of signs in Herodotus' Histories / Alexander Hollmann
Publication : Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard
University Press, 2011
Description matérielle : x, 288 p. ; 23 cm
Collection : Hellenic studies ; 48
Lien à la collection : Hellenic studies (Washington, D.C.)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and indexes
Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents,
riddling oracles, and striking dreams. But Herodotus draws our attention to other
types of signs too, beginning with human speech itself as a coded system that can
manipulate and be manipulated. Objects, gifts, artifacts, markings, even the human
body, are all capable of being invested with meaning in the Histories and Herodotus
shows that conventionally and culturally determined actions, gestures, and ritual
all need decoding. This book represents an unprecedented examination of signs and
their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission,
reception, and decoding. Through his control and involvement in this process he emerges
as a veritable "master of signs". --Book Jacket
Sujet(s) : Hérodote (0484?-0420? av. J.-C.). Histoires
Symbolisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674055889 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674055888 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43622074c
Notice n° :
FRBNF43622074
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)