Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller (Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

MacLeod, Catriona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814325394 ISBN 13: 9780814325391

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Embodying Ambiguity traces the shifts in the representation of the androgyny myth in the literature and aesthetics of the late eighteenth century and nineteenth century. Catriona MacLeod examines important pedagogic implications of the androgyny ideal for Classical, Romantic, and Realist texts, beginning with Aristophane's narrative of the origin of human sexuality in Plato's Symposium and including the hermaphroditic androgyny proposed by Winckelmann and the heterosexual complementary model found in Schiller and Schlegel.

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Synopsis:

This study traces the shifts in representation of the androgyny myth in the German literature and aesthetics of the late-18th and 19th centuries. The author examines the pedagogic implications of the androgyny ideal for Classical, Romantic and Realist texts, starting with Plato's "Symposium".

About this edition

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0814325394
• ISBN 13: 9780814325391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304