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Project

Tragic Minds: Presentations of Fictional Consciousness in Fifth-Century Athenian Drama
Code
3F008417
Duration
01 October 2017 → 30 September 2022
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Greek language
    • Literatures in Greek
    • Psychology of literature
Keywords
Tragedy Narrative Literary theory Ancient Greek Greek Antiquity Cognitive approach Literary studies
 
Project description
 

The project seeks to elucidate tragedy's complex, intertwined notions of agency and consciousness by proposing the first comprehensive study of narrative mindreading in Greek tragedy. It aims to contribute both to the analysis of consciousness and causality attribution in tragedy, and to the theoretical conceptualization of 'narrative mindreading'.