Ovid's Myth of Pygmalion on Screen: In Pursuit of the by Paula James

March 3, 2017 by admin

By Paula James

Why has the parable of Pygmalion and his ivory statue proved so inspirational for writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and administrators and creators of movies and tv sequence? The ‘authorised’ model of the tale seems to be within the epic poem of alterations, Metamorphoses, by way of the first-century CE Latin poet Ovid; during which the bard Orpheus narrates the legend of the sculptor king of Cyprus whose appealing carved girl was once delivered to existence by way of the goddess Venus.
Focusing on reveal storylines with a Pygmalion subtext, from silent cinema to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lars and the genuine Girl, this publication appears to be like at why and the way the made-over or synthetic girl has survived during the centuries and what we will find out about this troublesome version of ‘perfection’ from the viewpoint of the prior and the current. Given the myriad representations of Ovid’s fantasy, do we relatively make a contemporary textual content a device of interpretation for an historic poem? This e-book solutions with a convincing ‘yes’ and explains why it's so vital to provide antiquity again its future.

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