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Narcissus and Pygmalion : Illusion and Spectacle in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gianpiero Rosati (2022, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198852436

ISBN-139780198852438

eBay Product ID (ePID)26050434853

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNarcissus and Pygmalion : Illusion and Spectacle in Ovid's Metamorphoses

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2022

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorGianpiero Rosati

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.9 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-947059

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Rosati provides refined and insightful interpretations of Ovid's Narcissus and Pygmalion episodes...This book will be especially welcomed by those wanting or needing to read a foundational work in modern Ovidian studies." -- M. L. Goldman, CHOICE "Rosati's book remains powerful and highly relevant...Rosati not only offers compelling readings of the Narcissus and Pygmalion myths, but also provides us with the tools and starting points to continue in this interpretation of the epic." -- Elaine C. Sanderson, University of Liverpool, "Rosati provides refined and insightful interpretations of Ovid's Narcissus and Pygmalion episodes...This book will be especially welcomed by those wanting or needing to read a foundational work in modern Ovidian studies." -- M. L. Goldman, CHOICE"Rosati's book remains powerful and highly relevant...Rosati not only offers compelling readings of the Narcissus and Pygmalion myths, but also provides us with the tools and starting points to continue in this interpretation of the epic." -- Elaine C. Sanderson, University of Liverpool, "Rosati provides refined and insightful interpretations of Ovid's Narcissus and Pygmalion episodes...This book will be especially welcomed by those wanting or needing to read a foundational work in modern Ovidian studies." -- M. L. Goldman, CHOICE, Rosati provides refined and insightful interpretations of Ovid's Narcissus and Pygmalion episodes...This book will be especially welcomed by those wanting or needing to read a foundational work in modern Ovidian studies.

Dewey Decimal873.01

Table Of ContentIntroduction1: Narcissus or Literary Illusion2: Pygmalion or the Poetics of Fiction3: The Spectacle of Appearances

SynopsisNature imitates art - not a paradox from Oscar Wilde's pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis. For Ovid, art is independent of reality, not its mirror: by enhancing phantasia, the artist's creative imagination and the simulacrum's primacy over reality, Ovid opens up unexplored perspectives for future European literature and art. Through an examination of Narcissus and Pygmalion, figures of illusion and desire, who are the protagonists of two major episodes of the Metamorphoses, Rosati sheds light on some crucial junctures in the history of reception and aesthetics. Narcissus and Pygmalion has, since its first publication in Italian, contributed to the poet's critical fortunes over the past few decades through its combination of sophisticated literary critical thinking and patient argument applied to the poetics of self-reflexivity and, in particular, to the fundamental interface between the verbal and the visual in the Metamorphoses. A substantial introduction accompanies this new translation into English, positioning Rosati's work anew in the forefront of current discussions of Ovidian aesthetics and intermediality, in the wake of the postmodern culture of the simulacrum., Nature imitates art--not a paradox from Oscar Wilde's pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis. For Ovid, art is independent of reality, not its mirror: by enhancing phantasia, the artist's creative imagination and the simulacrum's primacy over reality, Ovid opens up unexplored perspectives for future European literatureand art. Through an examination of Narcissus and Pygmalion, figures of illusion and desire, who are the protagonists of two major episodes of the Metamorphoses, Rosati sheds light on some crucial junctures in the historyof reception and aesthetics. Narcissus and Pygmalion has, since its first publication in Italian, contributed to the poet's critical fortunes over the past few decades through its combination of sophisticated literary critical thinking and patient argument applied to the poetics of self-reflexivity and, in particular, to the fundamental interface between the verbal and the visual in the Metamorphoses. A substantial introduction accompanies this new translation into English,positioning Rosati's work anew in the forefront of current discussions of Ovidian aesthetics and intermediality, in the wake of the postmodern culture of the simulacrum., Nature imitates art--not a paradox from Oscar Wilde's pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on the principle of mimesis . For Ovid, art is independent of reality, not its mirror: by enhancing phantasia , the artist's creative imagination and the simulacrum's primacy over reality, Ovid opens up unexplored perspectives for future European literature and art. Through an examination of Narcissus and Pygmalion, figures of illusion and desire, who are the protagonists of two major episodes of the Metamorphoses , Rosati sheds light on some crucial junctures in the history of reception and aesthetics. Narcissus and Pygmalion has, since its first publication in Italian, contributed to the poet's critical fortunes over the past few decades through its combination of sophisticated literary critical thinking and patient argument applied to the poetics of self-reflexivity and, in particular, to the fundamental interface between the verbal and the visual in the Metamorphoses . A substantial introduction accompanies this new translation into English, positioning Rosati's work anew in the forefront of current discussions of Ovidian aesthetics and intermediality, in the wake of the postmodern culture of the simulacrum ., Newly translated into English, Rosati's Narcissus and Pygmalion sheds light on some crucial junctures in the history of reception and aesthetics through an exploration of the eponymous characters as they appear in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

LC Classification NumberPA6519.M9