Venus as Muse

From Lucretius to Michel Serres
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29247-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 182, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

This volume deals with the enduring presence of one of Western culture's most fascinating and influential figures in ancient, modern, and postmodern art and literature: Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The collection, which is the first of its kind, seeks to explore Venus's significance as a figure of beauty and creativity across cultures and disciplines, engaging a range of media, theoretical approaches, and cultural perspectives. Thirteen international scholars—including Elisabeth Bronfen, Tom Conley, Laurence Rickels, and Barbara Vinken—illuminate Venus's lasting value as a multifaceted figure of the creative in Western culture, from Lucretius to Michel Serres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berressem, Hanjo

Blamberger, Günter

Goth, Sebastian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

GÜNTER BLAMBERGER
Venus as Muse. A Contradictory Thought-Image? 9
SEBASTIAN GOTH
Venus Anadyomene. The Birth of Art 15
ELIZABETH ASMIS
Venus and the Passion for Renewal in Lucretius’s On the Nature
of Things 41

Visual & Performing Arts

JENNIFER SHAW
The Figure of Venus. Rhetoric of the Ideal from Cabanel to
Claude Cahun 57
JEANETTE KOHL
Intra-Venus 73

Literature

SEBASTIAN GOTH
Venus as Muse. Toward a Poetics of Lust 121
RUDOLF DRUX
“The Most Blessed Goddess” Venus as the ‘Ally’ of the Poet (in)
Heinrich Heine 149
TOM CONLEY
Venus Backwards. From Rimbaud to Ronsard 163
BARBARA VINKEN
Nana: Venus a rebours. Paris of the Second Empire as the Return
of Rome and Babylon 173
HANJO BERRESSEM
The Transit of Venus 199

Film, Media, Theory

LAURENCE RICKELS
Venus Barbata 221
ELISABETH BRONFEN
Cleopatra’s Venus 235
COLIN GARDNER
Samuel Beckett’s ‘Peephole’ Venus. Re-Sexualization,
The Oral Mother, and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe,
Ghost Trio, and …but the clouds… 251
PATRICIA MACCORMACK
Venusian Ecosophy 265

Contributors 281