Venus as muse : : from Lucretius to Michel Serres /

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].

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...

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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).
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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.

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