Epic Gaze - Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic

Informationen zum Autor Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham and her teaching includes epic and its reception. She is the author of Statius and Epic Games (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and co-editor, with Caroline Vout, of Epic Visions (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Klappentext Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze. Zusammenfassung Explores ideas of vision! gender and power from Homer to Nonnus! Virgil to Silius Italicus. Readers of epic and students of ancient society will profit from this wide-ranging investigation. An eclectic array of theoretical perspectives illuminates central aspects of a key genre in Greek and Roman literature and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The divine gaze; 3. The mortal gaze; 4. The prophetic gaze; 5. Ecphrasis and the Other; 6. The female gaze; 7. Heroic bodies on display; 8. The assaultive gaze; 9. Fixing it for good. Medusa and monumentality.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Lovatt, Helen (University of Nottingham) Lovatt, Lovatt Helen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2013
• EAN: 9781107016118
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01611-8
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, Ancient Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE