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She-wolf : the story of a Roman icon /
"In She-Wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon, Cristina Mazzoni examines the evolution of the she-wolf as a symbol in western history, art, and literature, from antiquity to contemporary times"--Provided by publisher
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SHE-WOLF; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: ROME AND THE SHE-WOLF; PART I THE CAPITOLINE SHE-WOLF; CHAPTER 1 ANTIQUITY; A SHE-WOLF AMONG ROME'S ANIMALS; UNDERSTANDING AND REPRESENTING THE LUPA CAPITOLINA; THE LUPA'S IDENTITY IN CICERO AND LIVY; ROMULUS AND REMUS BETWEEN RIVALRY AND COOPERATION; RESTORATION AND THE LUPAS AGE; CHAPTER 2 MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE; THE LUPA AS SYMBOL OF POWER AT THE LATERAN; MASTER GREGORY AND OTHER MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PAGAN LUPA; THE SHE-WOLF AND THE SEVERED HANDS.
- The lupa's move from the lateran to the capitolinethe hall of the she-wolf at the capitoline museum; chapter 3 modern and contemporary times; viewing the lupa with nineteenth-century visitors; the english and the american byron address the lupa; gift she-wolves in the twentieth century; fraternal relations in komunyakaas "remus and romulus"; the lupa capitolina in contemporary guidebooks; part ii writing about the she-wolf; chapter 4 antiquity; the nursing she-wolf and the goddess of suckling; mother's milk and poet's milk in propertiuss elegies.
- The language of historians and the mother's tonguelicking lines into shape like a she-wolf her cubs; the she-wolf between wildness and prostitution; chapter 5 middle ages and renaissance; misogyny and the she-wolf from tertullian to masuccio; dantes beast and the allegory of greed; petrarch's she-wolf as the metonym of loss; du bellay's parable of the she-wolfs death; milk, water, and a she-wolf fountain; chapter 6 modern and contemporary times; the she-wolf and the meaning of history in wordsworth and macaulay; rome as a she-wolf for nievo, carducci, and d'annunzio.
- Angry and hungry beasts in pascarella, trilussa, and bellisexy and political she-wolves in verga, mussolini, and the bombs of 1993; how to suckle the she-wolf without getting bitten; part iii the she-wolf in art; chapter 7 antiquity; mammary meanings in the she-wolf's visual representation; interpreting the nursing beast on the mirror of bolsena; the she-wolf as protector of the living and the dead; the domestication of females on the ara pacis; context and the she-wolf's meanings; chapter 8 middle ages and renaissance; recycling the she-wolf and the diptych of rambona.
- The roman nurse as allegorical pedestal in perugia and sienathe river and the she-wolf in bologna and the quattro fontane; metaphor and symbol in rubenss romulus and remus; the she-wolf's empty pelt on a renaissance map; chapter 9 modern and contemporary times; the neoclassical she-wolves of valadier and pinelli; the tamed she-wolves of fascist iconography; women and men in the pose of the she-wolf; jackson pollocks layered she-wolf; kristin jones's ephemeral she-wolves; conclusion: the live wolves of rome; bibliography; index.