Kniha Epic Gaze Helen Lovatt

Epic Gaze

Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic

Autor: Helen Lovatt
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have act...

Informace o knize

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2013
Stránek
424
EAN
9781107016118
ISBN
1107016118
Enbook ID
01338308
Hmotnost
754
Rozměry
159 x 233 x 29

Kompletní popis

The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating, ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. Helen Lovatt demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. She discusses mortals appropriating the divine gaze, prophets as both penetrative viewers and rape victims, explores the divine authority of epic ecphrasis, and exposes the way that heroic bodies are fragmented and fetishised.

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