Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 271 pages)
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Illustrations
ISBN:
9789004678958
Series Statement:
Metaforms 24
Content:
Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004678941
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davies, Malcolm, 1951 - The hero's life-choice: studies on Heracles at the crossroads, the Judgement of Paris, and their reception Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004678941
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004678958
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