Methodos (Feb 2020)
Le texte en 3D : lire l'architecture des ekphraseis de bâtiments dans la littérature grecque antique et byzantine. Les exemples de Lucien, Procope, Photios, Mésaritès
Abstract
Byzantine ekphraseis of buildings are confusing for modern readers. Scholars use them in one hand as sources for History, History of Art and architecture, trying to found historical evidence through texts which are not documents, or, in the other hand, as pieces of literature and rhetorical studies. Could it be possible to find an other way between these two? Could we suppose that between the modern readership and the Medieval or the Ancient one there is no lack of imagination but a different experience of reading based on different mecanisms of imagination? It seems that the Medieval experience of reading is not linear and that the mise en page means little, because lexical and thematic echoes within the text sound to design its architecture and lead to a 3-dimensional text. In this paper we will explore the possibility of ekphrasis as not simply received as an image by the readers and the listeners, but as an image build by and through the composition of the text.
