Related Books
Language: en
Pages: 443
Pages: 443
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-29 - Publisher: Routledge
The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist, who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. Thi
Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Cultivating the Muse looks beyond the secure and benign images traditionally associated with inspiration in classical literature and scholarship. In contrast to
Language: en
Pages: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
An examination of the love affair between the poet and her muse. Personifying the muse as her ultimate, possessive lover, the poet explores what it means to be
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Venturing outside the Decameron to the Latin works, and outside the usual textual and intertextual readings of Boccaccio to more broadly cultural and anthropolo
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love