| Name: | Description: | Size: | Format: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.38 MB | Adobe PDF |
Advisor(s)
Abstract(s)
Tendo conquistado desde a Antiguidade o posto de primeiro autor ocidental, Homero continua a merecer, em praticamente todos os âmbitos da mundividência cultural europeia, um espaço referencial de centralidade indisputada. Do ponto de vista expressivo, a leitura da Ilíada e da Odisseia – abarcando quer as componentes mais denotativas da produção linguística, quer as mais conotativas da sua aura simbólica – continua a causar, ao fim de quase três mil anos de reaproximações, a impressão de regresso à inesgotável fonte primordial. A esse título pareceu-nos particularmente sugestivo propor como ângulo de abordagem o pormenor expressivo da notação das cores. Interessa-nos verificar como esta peculiar apreensão sensorial-racional, que perpassa toda a experiência mental humana, surge traduzida na plasticidade poética da língua grega arcaica. Simultaneamente, procuramos perceber como a notação homérica da cor se aproxima ou diverge daquela que, na contemporaneidade, as línguas modernas traduzem, e a investigação e a experimentação estética no âmbito das artes visuais interpretam. É, pois, através da análise circunstanciada dos campos lexicais e semânticos associados às referências de cor, e da transfiguração simbólica do real apreendido que eles operam, que nos propomos tentar a revisitação do poeta – em diálogo com as grandes questões filosóficas e científicas à volta da cor e da visão.
Having conquered since Antiquity the position of first Western author, Homer continues to deserve, in virtually all spheres of European cultural worldview, a referential space of undisputed centrality. From the expressive point of view, the reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey – encompassing both the most denotative components of the linguistic production and the most connotative of its symbolic aura – continues to cause, after almost three thousand years of re-approximation, the impression of a return to the inexhaustible primordial source. In this respect, it seemed particularly suggestive to us to propose as an angle of approach the expressive detail of the notation of colours. We are interested in verifying how this peculiar sensorial-rational apprehension, which pervades all human mental experience, appears translated into the poetic plasticity of the archaic Greek language. Simultaneously, we seek to understand how the Homeric notation of colour approaches or diverges from equivalent references in modern languages and in aesthetic research and experimentation within the visual arts. It is, therefore, through the detailed analysis of the lexical and semantic fields associated with colour references, and the symbolic transfiguration of the reality apprehended that they operate, that we propose to attempt the poet’s revisitation – in dialogue with the great philosophical and scientific questions surrounding colour and vision.
Having conquered since Antiquity the position of first Western author, Homer continues to deserve, in virtually all spheres of European cultural worldview, a referential space of undisputed centrality. From the expressive point of view, the reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey – encompassing both the most denotative components of the linguistic production and the most connotative of its symbolic aura – continues to cause, after almost three thousand years of re-approximation, the impression of a return to the inexhaustible primordial source. In this respect, it seemed particularly suggestive to us to propose as an angle of approach the expressive detail of the notation of colours. We are interested in verifying how this peculiar sensorial-rational apprehension, which pervades all human mental experience, appears translated into the poetic plasticity of the archaic Greek language. Simultaneously, we seek to understand how the Homeric notation of colour approaches or diverges from equivalent references in modern languages and in aesthetic research and experimentation within the visual arts. It is, therefore, through the detailed analysis of the lexical and semantic fields associated with colour references, and the symbolic transfiguration of the reality apprehended that they operate, that we propose to attempt the poet’s revisitation – in dialogue with the great philosophical and scientific questions surrounding colour and vision.
Description
Keywords
Homero Memória cultural Referências cromáticas Ontologia da cor Homer Cultural memory Cromatic references Ontology of color
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Publisher
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra