Narcissus and Pygmalion Illusion and Spectacle in Ovids Metamorphoses 1st edition by Gianpiero Rosati 0192593658 9780192593658

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ISBN-10 :  0192593658 

ISBN-13 :  9780192593658

Author :  Gianpiero Rosati 

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.

Narcissus and Pygmalion: Illusion and Spectacle in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1st Table of contents:

1) Narcissus and Pygmalion today
2) Simulacrum and the power of the gaze
3) Narcissism and intertextuality
4) Self-love, construction of the other: the primacy of the simulacrum
1. Narcissus or Literary Illusion
1. The myth: origins and developments
2. Echo and Narcissus: the deception of the reflection
3. Literary fiction and poetic narcissism
2. Pygmalion or the Poetics of Fiction
1. The outline of the myth
2. Pygmalion and Narcissus
3. A poetics of literariness
3. The Spectacle of Appearances
1. The trap of illusions
2. The spectacle of metamorphosis
3. The spectacle of the word
4. Conclusions

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