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Author Knöll, Stefanie A.

Title Mixed Metaphors : the Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (473 pages)
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Contents List of illustrations; preface; introduction; duality and allegory; dance, dialogue and duality; dances of the living and the dead; dance, music, and inversion; from allegory to anatomy; macabre parallels; dialogue and violence in medievalilluminations of the three livingand the three dead; mixed encounters; death personified in medieval imagery; death in drama and literature; romance macabre; frightened or fearless; the kiss of death; spatial contexts; places for reflection; the istrian danse macabre; the macabre in print; aphenomenon of parallel readingin the office of the dead.
Letters without words?the danse macabre initialsby hans holbein and his followersmix and match; bibliography; contributors; index.
Summary This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too often overlooked in Anglo-American scholarship. The Danse was once a major motif that occurred in many different media and spread across Europe in the course of the fifteenth century, from France to England, Germany, Scandinavia, Poland, Spain, Italy and Istria. Yet the Danse is hard to define because it mixes metaphors, such as dance, di ...
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Subject Dance of death in art.
Dance of death in art.
Dance of death in literature.
Dance of death in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Oosterwijk, Sophie.
Other Form: Print version: Knöll, Stefanie. Mixed Metaphors : The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2011 9781443829007
ISBN 9781443879224 (electronic book)
1443879223 (electronic book)