Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 4, 60 Seiten, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 133 g
Reihe: Morphomata Lectures Cologne
Essay on the Artist as Murderer
Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 4, 60 Seiten, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 133 g
Reihe: Morphomata Lectures Cologne
ISBN: 978-3-7705-5604-5
Verlag: Wilhelm Fink Verlag
Why the myth of Daedalus, the protos euretes, is connected with envy and murder? The author takes as his starting point Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where Daedalus’ envy drives him to murder his pupil and nephew Perdix. He also considers the passage of Seneca the Elder, about the painter Parrhasius and the citizen from Olynthus, that he had tortured in order to paint the agony of Prometheus. The first case is a topos of the artist’s biography which implies, that the craft of the artisan was held as a guarded secret; the second is related to mimesis. The author questions what role the topos of the artist as murderer plays in text and imagery, from the Middle Ages to modern literature.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
