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Venus as muse : from Lucretius to Michel Serres /
This volume deals with the enduring presence of one of Western culture's most fascinating and influential figures in ancient, modern, and postmodern art and literature: Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston [Massachusetts] :
Brill Rodopi,
2015.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
Volume 182. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Venus as Muse; Copyright ; Contents; Introduction; Venus as Muse. A Contradictory Thought-Image?; Venus Anadyomene. The Birth of Art; Venus and the Passion for Renewal in Lucretius's On the Nature of Things; Visual & Performing Arts; The Figure of Venus. Rhetoric of the Ideal from Cabanel to Claude Cahun; Intra-Venus; Literature; Venus as Muse. Toward a Poetics of Lust; "The Most Blessed Goddess" Venus as the 'Ally' of the Poet (in) Heinrich Heine; Venus Backwards. From Rimbaud to Ronsard; Nana: Venus a rebours. Paris of the Second Empire as the Return of Rome and Babylon.
- The Transit of VenusFilm, Media, Theory; Venus Barbata; Cleopatra's Venus; Samuel Beckett's 'Peephole' Venus. Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother, and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, and but the clouds ; Venusian Ecosophy; Contributors.