Briseis, a Passive Mobile Entity: Body and Movement as Symbols of ‘Otherness’ in the Iliad (Giulia Roncato, Trinity College Dublin)
Start time: 13:00 / End time: 14:00 / Date: 29 Oct 2020 Open to: Students within this Faculty / Staff within this Faculty / Any UOL students / Any UOL staff / Any potential undergraduate students / Any potential postgraduate students / Any potential international students / General Public Type: Webinar Cost: Please email Rachael Cornwell (R.H.Cornwell@liverpool.ac.uk) or Daniel Lowes (D.G.Lowes@liverpool.ac.uk) for the Zoom link. Contact: For more information contact Rachael Cornwell at R.H.Cornwell@liverpool.ac.uk Briseis is both a woman and a slave. Her ‘dual otherness’ has received deep attention from scholars, who have analysed the theme from different perspectives. My aim is to contribute to this wide discussion through the methodology of Cognitive Linguistics. Particularly Cognitive Grammar and the concept of Embodied Image Schema will offer fruitful analytic tools for investigating Briseis’ otherness. The present paper will focus on Briseis’ movement (kinaesics) and body conceptualisation as they are represented through the lens of ‘us’. Firstly, I will show that Briseis moves WITHIN the macro-world of ‘us’ (the Achaeans’ space) and BETWEEN the micro-worlds which fragment it (the warriors’ individual spaces). Moreover, Briseis’ kinaesics makes her what I have called a passive mobile entity: whereas the opposite micro-worlds are fixed, she links them through her transfer from one to another. Secondly, since a movement implies to own a body, I will show that Briseis’ corporeal substance is mobile as well. Finally, I will prove that the precondition for Briseis’ kinaesics and her bodily conceptualisation is her weightlessness. The character’s otherness is therefore depicted through three linked semantic domains: 1) OTHERNESS AS A PASSIVE MOBILE ENTITY 2) OTHERNESS AS A MOBILE CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE 3) OTHERNESS AS WEIGHTLESSNESS When you click on "Add this event to my calendar" your browser will download an ics file. Microsoft Outlook: Download the file, then you may be able to click on "Save & Close" to save it to your calendar. If that doesn't work go into Outlook, click on the File tab, then on Open, then Import. Select "Import an iCalendar (.ic or vCalendar file (.vcs)" then click on Next. Find the .ics file and click on OK. Google Calendar: download the file, then go into your calendar. On the right where it says "Other calendars" click on the arrow icon and then click on Import calendar. Click on Browse and select the .ics file, then click on Import. Apple Calendar: download the file, then you can either drag it to Calendar or import the file by going to File > Import > Import and choosing the .ics file.About the event
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