| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Series |
Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; Volume 182 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 182.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Serres, Michel.
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| SUBJECT |
Serres, Michel fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berressem, Hanjo, editor
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Blamberger, Günter, editor
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Goth, Sebastian, editor
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Roussel, Kathrin, cover designer
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Asmis, Elizabeth, contributor
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| ISBN |
9004292535 |
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9789004292536 |
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9004292470 |
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9789004292475 |
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