Echo and Narcissus

Echo and Narcissus
Author: Amy Lawrence
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991-07-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520070828

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Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus, Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of women in film, enabling us to see individual films in new ways, and to ask new questions of other films. Using Sadie Thompson (1928), Blackmail (1929), Rain (1932), The Spiral Staircase, Sorry,Wrong Number, Notorious, Sunset Boulevard (1950) and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Lawrence illustrates how women's voices are positioned within narratives that require their submission to patriarchal roles and how their attempts to speak provoke increasingly severe repression. She also shows how women's natural ability to speak is interrupted, made difficult, or conditioned to a suffocating degree by sound technology itself. Telephones, phonographs, voice-overs, and dubbing are foregrounded, called upon to silence women and to restore the primacy of the image. Unlike the usage of "voice" by feminist and literary critics to discuss broad issues of authorship and point of view, in film studies the physical voice itself is a primary focus. Echo and Narcissus shows how assumptions about the "deficiencies" of women's voices and speech are embedded in sound's history, technology, uses, and marketing. Moreover, the construction of the woman's voice is inserted into the ideologically loaded cinematic and narrative conventions governing the representation of women in Hollywood film.

Echo and Narcissus

Echo and Narcissus
Author: Mark Siegel
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Musical fiction
ISBN: 097062252X

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Metamorphoses Books I VIII

Metamorphoses  Books I VIII
Author: Ovid
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1960
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: STANFORD:36105005719450

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A Book of Myths

A Book of Myths
Author: Jean Lang
Publsiher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783849663759

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"A Book of Myths" deals in a most entertaining manner with the mythology of Greece and Rome and many other noted lands. Added to the pleasure of the story there is the lure of the legend and the spell of old ways and customs. Not only many of the most celebrated are retold, but also many of the less well-known tales. The aim of the author, it is stated, has been to simplify for those who are not erudite scholars the stories of mythology, to which constant reference is made not only in classic, but in modern poetry, and to direct the attention of readers to poems which are not already known to them. Included are tales of Prometheus, Pygmalion, Orpheus, Perseus, King Midas, Pan, the Lorelei, Baldur and many more.

Echoism

Echoism
Author: Donna Christina Savery
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-10-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781000026290

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This book introduces the importance of echoism as a clinical entity and a theoretical concept. In Ovid's version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus, the character Echo receives equal attention to her counterpart, Narcissus, yet she has been completely marginalised in the pervasive literatures on narcissism. The author draws upon her work with patients who have experienced relationships with narcissistic partners or parents, and have developed a particular configuration of object relations and ways of relating for which she uses the term echoism. She uses psychoanalytic theory and existential philosophical ideas to underpin her formulations and inform her clinical thinking. Donnna Savery explores the question 'Am I an Echoist?' and introduces the concept of Echoism in the following YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEyjolXL7lA

Bulfinch s Mythology

Bulfinch s Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Publsiher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2011-10-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9182736450XXX

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Narcissus and Echo

Narcissus and Echo
Author: Naomi Segal
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0719023629

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"Narcissus and Echo" is about romantic confessional fiction, in which the woman dies and the man lives to tell "his" tale. Whether femme fatale, nun, sister, aristocrat or fallen women, she is always somehow blamed for her own destruction. What motivates the man's narrative and how does the women's voice, curiously, survive the text? Naomi Segal brings insights from feminist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on writers such as Chateaubriand, Musset, Prevost and Gautier. Running throughout this lively and provocative study are dichotomies between speech and sight, male "doubles" and female "mirror", the narcissism of nostalgia and the paradoxes of undesire.

Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History

Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History
Author: Kenneth J. Knoespel
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2015-08-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781317377252

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Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid’s fable takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the themes but looks at the creation of narrative strategies to explain Narcissus’ experience. The story has always been understood as literally impossible but invites readers to ask what is meant by the puzzling tale of deception and death. The limits placed on the fable by the commentaries of the medieval period allow us to appreciate the narrative expansion of the fable in twelfth and thirteenth-century poetry. Themes in this book are the way the fable is used as a means for knowledge of physical nature and the development of science; the importance of language in the fable and in its settings when rewritten in other texts, and psychoanalytic aspects of Echo and Narcissus. The fable has the capacity to represent mental life and psychological crisis within other narratives and this is also an important discussion point, based around the medieval text Roman de la Rose. The book also considers the wider Metamorphoses and Ovid’s importance for literature.