Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces
Debbie Felton, "Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces"
English | ISBN: 0367591200 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367591200 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used for by individuals and communities, and how language, use, and the passage of time invest spaces with meaning. In addition to this ‘spatial’ turn in scholarship, recent years have also seen an ‘emotive’ turn – an increased interest in the study of emotion in literature.
Many works on landscape in classical antiquity focus on themes such as the sacred and the pastoral and the emotions such spaces evoke, such as (respectively) feelings of awe or tranquillity in settings both urban and rural. Far less scholarship has been generated by the
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