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Labyrinths in literature. --- Labyrinthes --- Dans la littérature.
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Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages.Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it.Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
Doolhoven in de literatuur --- Labyrinten in de literatuur --- Labyrinthes dans la littérature --- Labyrinths in literature --- Classical literature --- -Labyrinths in art --- Literature, Medieval --- -European literature --- Medieval literature --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Labyrinths in art. --- Labyrinths in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Labyrinths in art --- Literature [Medieval ]
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Spanish American fiction --- Labyrinths in literature --- History and criticism --- -Spanish American literature --- -History and criticism --- Spanish-American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism --- Roman hispano-americain
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Labyrinths in art --- Labyrinths --- Play --- Play in literature --- Play in art --- Labyrinths in literature --- Labyrinthes dans l'art --- Labyrinthes --- Labyrinthes dans la littérature --- Jeu --- Jeu dans la littérature --- Jeu dans l'art
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Depuis toujours fasciné par les labyrinthes, Franco Maria Ricci nous entraîne dans une vertigineuse méditation autour de ce mythe universel. L'ouvrage explore le labyrinthe dans toutes ses dimensions, mythologiques, artistiques, littéraires ou architecturales. Une riche iconographie parcourt les représentations de labyrinthes à travers les siècles et les civilisations, dans le dessin des coquillages, le pavement des mosaïques, les enluminures médiévales, les plans d'inextricables labyrinthes végétaux...¦Un écho à l'oeuvre légendaire de Dédale, dont les tours et les détours hantent l'humanité depuis la nuit des temps.
Art --- Labyrinths in art --- Labyrinths in literature --- Maze gardens --- Labyrinthes dans l'art --- Labyrinthes dans la littérature --- Labyrinthes (Art des jardins) --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Labyrinthes --- Labyrinthes de jardin --- Thèmes, motifs --- Aspect symbolique. --- Mythologie. --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Thèmes, motifs.
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