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The figure of the nymph in early modern culture /
Throughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from being merely a symbol of the classical legacy, the nymph was invested with a surprisingly broad range of meanings. Working on the basis of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture; Part 1 Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature; Chapter 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega; Chapter 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300-1770; Chapter 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence.
- Chapter 5 'Who, Then, is the "Nympha"?' An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni FrescoesPart 2 Literary Representations; Chapter 6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento; Chapter 7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power to Bind: Lia's Role in Boccaccio's Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine; Chapter 8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics; Chapter 9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society's Nymphs.
- Part 3 Garden ArchitectureChapter 10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti's Villa at Lainate; Chapter 11 Nymphs Bathing in the King's Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta; Part 4 Music; Chapter 12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music around 1500; Chapter 13 The Nymph's Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self; Part 5 Aetiology and Antiquarianism; Chapter 14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry.