Cultivating the Muse : Struggles for Power and Inspiration in Classical Literature

Don Fowler

ISBN 10: 0199240043 / ISBN 13: 9780199240043

Editore: OUP Oxford, 2002

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vital forms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fates and explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Codice articolo 9780199240043

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Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to the shapeless collectivity of the Muses in ancient accounts, this collection aspires to redeem their shape in other more vital forms, closer or more distant incarnations of the ever-elusive maiden. Protagonists -- or victims -- in a complex game of cultural exploration, the alternative Muses and muse-like figures of this book are manipulated, abused, or effaced, but at the same time they also advocate or resist their fates and explore their own powers of persuasion. Inspiration is here not so much explored in its traditional cultic dimensions, but rather invoked for its capacity to trigger fervent debates about power, desire, knowledge, identity, and gender in the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.

Informazioni sull'autore: Efrossini Spentzou is Lecturer in Latin at Royal Holloway
Don Fowler was Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford

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Titolo: Cultivating the Muse : Struggles for Power ...
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu