Venus as muse : : from Lucretius to Michel Serres / / edited by Hanjo Berressem, Gunter Blamberger, Sebastian Goth ; cover illustration, Kathrin Roussel ; contributors, Elizabeth Asmis [and twelve others].

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 182
• TeilnehmendeR: Berressem, Hanjo,; Blamberger, Günter,; Goth, Sebastian,; Roussel, Kathrin,; Asmis, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 182.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 pages).

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. The collection, which is the first of its kind, seeks to explore Venus's significance as a figure of beauty and creativity across cultures and disciplines, engaging a range of media, theoretical approaches, and cultural perspectives. Thirteen international scholars—including Elisabeth Bronfen, Tom Conley, Laurence Rickels, and Barbara Vinken—illuminate Venus's lasting value as a multifaceted figure of the creative in Western culture, from Lucretius to Michel Serres.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Venus as Muse -- VENUS AS MUSE: A Contradictory Thought-Image? / Günter Blamberger -- VENUS ANADYOMENE: The Birth of Art / Sebastian Goth -- VENUS AND THE PASSION FOR RENEWAL IN LUCRETIUS’S ON THE NATURE OF THINGS / Elizabeth Asmis -- THE FIGURE OF VENUS: Rhetoric of the Ideal from Cabanel to Claude Cahun / Jennifer Shaw -- INTRA-VENUS / Jeanette Kohl -- VENUS AS MUSE: Toward a Poetics of Lust / Sebastian Goth -- “THE MOST BLESSED GODDESS” VENUS AS THE ‘ALLY’ OF THE POET (IN) HEINRICH HEINE / Rudolf Drux -- VENUS BACKWARDS: From Rimbaud to Ronsard / Tom Conley -- NANA: VENUS A REBOURS: Paris of the Second Empire as the Return of Rome and Babylon / Barbara Vinken -- THE TRANSIT OF VENUS / Hanjo Berressem -- VENUS BARBATA / Laurence Rickels -- CLEOPATRA’S VENUS / Elisabeth Bronfen -- SAMUEL BECKETT’S ‘PEEPHOLE’ VENUS: Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother, and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, and …but the clouds… / Colin Gardner -- VENUSIAN ECOSOPHY / Patricia MacCormack -- CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Venus as Muse.