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Mixed Metaphors : the Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of illustrations; preface; introduction; duality and allegory; dance, dialogue and duality; dances of the living and the dead; dance, music, and inversion; from allegory to anatomy; macabre parallels; dialogue and violence in medievalilluminations of the three livingand the three dead; mixed encounters; death personified in medieval imagery; death in drama and literature; romance macabre; frightened or fearless; the kiss of death; spatial contexts; places for reflection; the istrian danse macabre; the macabre in print; aphenomenon of parallel readingin the office of the dead.
- Letters without words?the danse macabre initialsby hans holbein and his followersmix and match; bibliography; contributors; index.