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Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the
languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas
Perella shows that this connection--however real--is secondary to
an archetypal encounter with noontide as a moment of existential
crisis of spiritual as well as erotic dimensions. First tracing the
literary presence of this image from classical and biblical
antiquity to Nietzsche and other modern writers, he then analyzes
the preoccupation with midday in the imagination of Italian authors
from Dante to the present. When the sun is at its point of greatest
strength, the blaze of noon is variously experienced as a wave of
glory or a moment of dread, as an occasion for reaching out to the
Absolute or retreating from the Abyss, as a source of fullness and
energy or of emptiness and lethargy, that ultimately may either
expand or annihilate being. The author contends that it is the
intimation of crisis surrounding this ambiguous moment that
accounts for the richly variegated psychological and aesthetic
experience of its imagery in Italian literature. Originally
published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the
languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas
Perella shows that this connection--however real--is secondary to
an archetypal encounter with noontide as a moment of existential
crisis of spiritual as well as erotic dimensions. First tracing the
literary presence of this image from classical and biblical
antiquity to Nietzsche and other modern writers, he then analyzes
the preoccupation with midday in the imagination of Italian authors
from Dante to the present. When the sun is at its point of greatest
strength, the blaze of noon is variously experienced as a wave of
glory or a moment of dread, as an occasion for reaching out to the
Absolute or retreating from the Abyss, as a source of fullness and
energy or of emptiness and lethargy, that ultimately may either
expand or annihilate being. The author contends that it is the
intimation of crisis surrounding this ambiguous moment that
accounts for the richly variegated psychological and aesthetic
experience of its imagery in Italian literature. Originally
published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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