The Dream of the Moving Statue

Kenneth Gross (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2006
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-02900-9 (ISBN)

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We live among the images we have made, and those images have an uncanny life. They seduce, challenge, trap, transform, and even kill us; they speak and remain silent. Kenneth Gross's The Dream of the Moving Statue offers a far-ranging and probing exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers have imagined the power and life of statues, real and metaphoric, taking up examples from antiquity to modernity, from Ovid, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare to Freud, Rilke, and Charlie Chaplin. The book is about the fate of works of art and about the fate of our fantasies, words, and bodies, about the metamorphoses they undergo in our own and others’ minds.

Kenneth Gross is also the author of Spenserian Poetics: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Magic (1985), Shakespeare's Noise (2001), and Shylock is Shakespeare (forthcoming in 2006). He teaches English at the University of Rochester.

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the 2006 paperback edition

Preface to the 1992 edition

Part I

1. Signs of Life: An Introduction

2. The Death of Sculpture

3. Eating the Statue

Part II

4. Idolomachia

5. You May Touch This Statue

6. Resisting Pygmalion

Part III

7. Crossings

8. The Space Between

Part IV

9. Talking with Statues

10. The Thing Itself (Which Does Not Move)

Coda: Ordinary Statues

Notes

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2006
Zusatzinfo	16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	University Park
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-271-02900-5 / 0271029005
ISBN-13	978-0-271-02900-9 / 9780271029009
Zustand	Neuware