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Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History (Paperback)
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Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography
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Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid's fable
takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the
themes but looks at the creation of narrative strategies to explain
Narcissus' experience. The story has always been understood as
literally impossible but invites readers to ask what is meant by
the puzzling tale of deception and death. The limits placed on the
fable by the commentaries of the medieval period allow us to
appreciate the narrative expansion of the fable in twelfth and
thirteenth-century poetry. Themes in this book are the way the
fable is used as a means for knowledge of physical nature and the
development of science; the importance of language in the fable and
in its settings when rewritten in other texts, and psychoanalytic
aspects of Echo and Narcissus. The fable has the capacity to
represent mental life and psychological crisis within other
narratives and this is also an important discussion point, based
around the medieval text Roman de la Rose. The book also considers
the wider Metamorphoses and Ovid's importance for literature.
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