Narcissus And The Invention Of Personal History
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Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History
Author | : Kenneth J. Knoespel |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317377269 |
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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.
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.
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
Author | : Vanda Zajko,Helena Hoyle |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2017-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781119072102 |
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A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples
Electric Seeing
Author | : Charlotte Klink |
Publsiher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2022-08-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9783839457009 |
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What is the subject of video? Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of »Electric Seeing« that emerged in the 19th century as well as its curious relation to psychoanalysis and the contemporary discovery of the structure of the human psyche. In doing so, she exposes how this development laid the foundation of what we know today as »video«. This comprehensive theory of video entails a discussion of the technological, historical, and etymological roots, the media-theoretical concepts of medium and index, the philosophical and art-theoretical environment in which video emerged in the 1960s, the psychoanalytic concept of the phantasm, and artworks by artists such as Yael Bartana, Hito Steyerl, and Bjørn Melhus.
The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality
Author | : Betsy van Schlun |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110488678 |
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The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Re inventing Ovid s Metamorphoses
Author | : Karl A.E. Enenkel,Jan L. de Jong |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789004437890 |
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This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.
Salome and the Dance of Writing
Author | : Françoise Meltzer |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226519654 |
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How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Françoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait—the painted portrait, framed—appears in various literary texts. Alien to the verbal system of the text yet mimetic of the gesture of writing, the textual portrait becomes a telling measure of literature's views on itself, on the politics of representation, and on the power of writing. Meltzer's readings of textual portraits—in the Gospel writers and Huysmans, Virgil and Stendhal, the Old Testament and Apuleius, Hawthorne and Poe, Kafka and Rousseau, Walter Scott and Mme de Lafayette—reveal an interplay of control and subversion: writing attempts to veil the visual and to erase the sensual in favor of "meaning," while portraiture, with its claims to bringing the natural object to "life," resists and eludes such control. Meltzer shows how this tension is indicative of a politics of repression and subversion intrinsic to the very act of representation. Throughout, she raises and illuminates fascinating issues: about the relation of flattery to caricature, the nature of the uncanny, the relation of representation to memory and history, the narcissistic character of representation, and the interdependency of representation and power. Writing, thinking, speaking, dreaming, acting—the extent to which these are all controlled by representation must, Meltzer concludes, become "consciously unconscious." In the textual portrait, she locates the moment when this essential process is both revealed and repressed.
Boiardo s Orlando Innamorato
Author | : Jo Ann Cavallo |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Chivalry in literature |
ISBN | : 0838635342 |
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Jo Ann Cavallo challenges the traditional tendency to view the Orlando Innamorato as "pure entertainment" and argues instead that the poem embodies the principal elements of fifteenth-century Humanist poets.