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Emblems of Eloquence
Author | : Wendy Heller |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2004-01-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520919341 |
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Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).
The Eloquence of Shadows
Author | : Hugh Buchanan,Peter Davidson |
Publsiher | : Young Writers |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Emblems |
ISBN | : 0952333104 |
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Flowers and Heraldry Or Floral Emblems and Heraldic Figures
Author | : Robert Tyas (Vicar of East Tilbury, Essex.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:B000606141 |
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Flowers and Heraldry Or Floral Emblems and Heraldic Figures Combined to Express Pure Sentiments Kind Feelings and Excellent Principles in a Manner at One Simple Elegant and Beautiful With Twenty four Emblazoned Plates Drawn and Coloured by James Andrews
Author | : Robert TYAS |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026785660 |
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The Emblem
Author | : John Manning |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2004-04-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1861891989 |
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John Manning's The Emblem charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixteenth century, and through its various reinventions to the present day.
Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 137 No 3 1993
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1422370186 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth Century Opera
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780521823593 |
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The Trials of Orpheus
Author | : Jenny C. Mann |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780691219233 |
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A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid’s version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language’s ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.