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The Epic Gaze
Helen Lovatt
其他書名
Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic
出版Cambridge University Press, 2013-06-27
主題History / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN11070161189781107016118
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MW8NknUriRQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.