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The Epic Gaze

The Epic Gaze

Lovatt, Helen

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1107016118
ISBN13: 9781107016118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 27 2013
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The epic genre has at its heart fascination and horror at viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating and ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with the most celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as both massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. It demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with only her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. On display are the vertical gaze of the gods, mortal responses, prophets as penetrative viewers and rape victims, ecphrasis as objectification, women on the walls gazing sidelong, heroic bodies fragmented and fetishized.

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