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This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Knippschild, Silke (Editor ), García Morcillo, Marta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Temas:
Civilization, Ancient, in art > Congresses.
Seduction in art > Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) in art > Congresses.
Civilization, Ancient, in literature > Congresses.
Seduction in literature > Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) in literature > Congresses.
Civilisation ancienne dans l'art > Congrès.
Séduction dans l'art > Congrès.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans l'art > Congrès.
Civilisation ancienne dans la littérature > Congrès.
Séduction dans la littérature > Congrès.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature > Congrès.
History of art: ancient & classical art, BCE to c 500 CE.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Civilization, Ancient, in art
Civilization, Ancient, in literature
Power (Social sciences) in art
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Seduction in art
Seduction in literature
Conference papers and proceedings
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Seduction and power: an introduction / Marta García Morcillo and Silke Knippschild
  • Power and seduction in Babylon: Verdi's Nabucco / Michael Seymour
  • "Go east young man!" jewel-in-the-bellybutton Orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • Modern dance and the seduction of Minoan Crete / Nicoletta Momigliano
  • Trojan lovers and warriors: the power of seduction in age of bronze / Eric Shanower
  • Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens. Female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture / Martina Treu
  • The eroticism of power in Jordi Coca's Ifigènia (2009) / Maite Clavo
  • "Prince of painters": the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen / Andrea Capra and Maddalena Giovanelli
  • Redefining catharsis in opera: the power of music in Birtwistle's The minotaur and Amargós' Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte / Jesús Carruesco and Montserrat Reig
  • The self in conflict with itself: a heraclitean theme in Eliot's The cocktail party / James H. Lesher
  • Three queens: Helen, Penelope, and Dido in Franco Rossi's Odissea and Eneide / Martin M. Winkler
  • Claudia quinta and publius cornelius scipio nasica: exempla virtutis in Vienna under Leopold I (1657-1705) / Pepa Castillo
  • The stolen seduction: Spartaco, gladiatore della Tracia (Riccardo Freda, Italy 1953) / Oscar Lapeña
  • The great seducer: Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol / Francisco Pina Polo
  • Seduced, defeated and forever damned: Marc Antony and post-classical imagination / Marta García Morcillo
  • Power beyond measure: Caligula, corruption and pop culture / Martin Lindner
  • Constantia Memoriae: the reputation of Agrippina the Younger / Mary R. McHugh
  • Prostitute, saint, pin-up, revolutionary: the reception of Theodora in 20th-Century Italy / Filippo Carlà
  • The spell of Antinous in Renaissance art: the Jonah statue in Santa Maria del Popolo / Rosario Rovira Guardiola
  • History, moral and power: the ancient world in 19th century Spanish history painting / Antonio Duplá
  • The lure of the Hermaphrodite in the poetry and painting of the English aesthetes / Charlotte Ribeyrol
  • Nude on the Acropolis / Constantina Katsari
  • Seduction and power in classical receptions: traditions and trends / Silke Knippschild.

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