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Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Gianpiero Rosati

Current price: $118.52
Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Gianpiero Rosati

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Size: 25.4 x 216 x 364

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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 enhancingphantasia, 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 ofthe 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 literarycritical 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 theforefront of current discussions of Ovidian aesthetics and intermediality, in the wake of the postmodern culture of the simulacrum. | Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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