The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque. Von Mary E. Barnard.

Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag etwas "begriffen" (berieben u. stw. gering fleckig); innen sehr gut. - Englisch. - The transformations of the myth of Apollo and Daphne in literary treatments from Ovid through the Spanish Golden Age are studied here in theme and variation, revealing how the protean figures of the myth meant different things to different ages, each age fashioning the lovers in its own image. The Myth of Apollo and Daphne focuses on the themes of love, agon, and the grotesque, and their transformations as the writers and myth-tellers, through a kind of artificial mythopoeia, invent variants for the tale, altering the ancient model to create their new, distinctive visions. Barnard begins with the both serious and playful rendition of Apollo and Daphne by the bantering Ovid, then moves through reworkings of Ovid's tale in the allegoresis of medieval commentators, in the tortured and elusive poetic universe of Petrarch's Canzoniere, and in Garcilaso de la Vega's courtly visions, and ends with Francisco de Quevedo, whose serious version in quintillas contrasts sharply with his burlesque treatment in two sonnets � a stage for his linguistic extravagances and savage wit. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Illustrations ----- Acknowledgments ----- Introduction ----- Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.452-567: Erotic Comedy and Two Grotesques ----- The Christianization of the Myth of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Medieval Commentators ----- Agon, Ecstasy, and Failure in Petrarch's Canzoniere ----- The Grotesque and the Courtly in Garcilaso's Apollo and Daphne ----- Myth in Quevedo: The Serious and the Burlesque in the Apollo and Daphne Poems ----- Appendix: Quevedo's Revisions of His Daphne Sonnet ----- Notes ----- Bibliography ----- Index. // ILLUSTRATIONEN : Phlyax vase, Herakles threatens Apollo --- Pediment of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi, Herakles and Apollo contend for the tripod --- Phlyax vase, Apollo and Cheiron --- Phlyax vase, Apollo giving Ion to the Pythia --- Miniature, Ovide moralise, Apollo and Daphne --- Miniature, Ovide moralise, Apollo and Daphne --- Miniature, Christine de Pisan, L'Epitre d'Othea, Apollo and Daphne --- Martin Schongauer, The Temptation of St. Anthony --- Mosaic, Il Redentore --- Miniature, Christine de Pisan, L'Epitre d'Othea, --- B. Peruzzi or Giulio Romano, fresco of Apollo and Daphne --- Agostino Veneziano, copper engraving of Apollo and Daphne --- Bernini, sculpture of Apollo and Daphne --- Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Apollo and Daphne (panel). ISBN 0822307014