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1 online resource (282 pages). |
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polychrome |
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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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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Serres, Michel.
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Serres, Michel. |
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Berressem, Hanjo, 1956- 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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Print version: Venus as muse : from Lucretius to Michel Serres. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, ©2015 282 pages Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 182 0929-6999 9789004292475 |
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9004292535 (e-book) |
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9789004292536 (electronic book) |
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9004292470 |
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9789004292475 |
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9789004292475 |
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