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Echoes of Narcissus / ed. by Trista Selous, Lieve Spaas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2001]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800734937
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  • 809.9/15
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NARCISSUS MYTH -- 1. Narcissus and his Double -- 2. The Myth of Narcissus in Courtly Literature -- 3. Uror Amore Mei: Individual and Social Identity in Psychoanalytic Theory -- PART II MIRRORS AND SELF-REFLECTION -- 4. The Mirror Preface: The Case of George Sand -- 5. Narcissus Magnified by Marguerite Duras’s Echo -- 6. Egotism and Narcissism: Avatars of the Masculine Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century French Literature -- PART III MIRRORS AND IMAGES -- 7. Caught in the Ocular: Visualising Narcissus in the Roman World -- 8. Cinema on Show in the Work of the Lumière Brothers -- 9. Double Vision: Narcissus and the Silver Screen -- PART IV NARCISSUS WRITTEN AND REWRITTEN -- 10. Narcissus and Echo: Feminine Haunting Masculine -- 11. Gide’s Narcissism -- 12. Reading the Glass: Fictive Solutions to the Narcissistic Quandary in Freud and Yeats -- 13. ‘The Idiosyncratic Mode of Regard’: Narcissistic Narrative in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy -- PART V IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS -- 14. Gaul and Woman as Reflected in the French Revolutionary’s Mirror -- 15. The Politics of Extreme Narcissism in the Discourse of the Front National -- 16. Self-Reflection through Language -- 17. Black Narcissus: Reflections on Identity in African Narrative -- PART VI THE FATE OF NARCISSUS -- 18. Jouy’s Cécile and the Narcissistic Romantic Hero -- 19. Narcissus’ Attitude to Death -- Notes on Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Greek mythology the beautiful Narcissus glimpsed his own reflection in the waters of a spring and fell in love. But his was an impossible passion and, filled with despair, he pined away. Over the years the myth has inspired painters, writers, and film directors, as well as philosophers and psychoanalysts. The tragic story of Narcissus, in love with himself, and of Echo, the nymph in love with him, lies at the heart of this collection of essays exploring the origins of the myth and some of its many cultural manifestations and meanings relating to the self and the self's relationship to the other. Through their discussion of the myth and its ramifications, the contributors to this volume broaden our understanding of one of the fundamental myths of Western culture.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NARCISSUS MYTH -- 1. Narcissus and his Double -- 2. The Myth of Narcissus in Courtly Literature -- 3. Uror Amore Mei: Individual and Social Identity in Psychoanalytic Theory -- PART II MIRRORS AND SELF-REFLECTION -- 4. The Mirror Preface: The Case of George Sand -- 5. Narcissus Magnified by Marguerite Duras’s Echo -- 6. Egotism and Narcissism: Avatars of the Masculine Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century French Literature -- PART III MIRRORS AND IMAGES -- 7. Caught in the Ocular: Visualising Narcissus in the Roman World -- 8. Cinema on Show in the Work of the Lumière Brothers -- 9. Double Vision: Narcissus and the Silver Screen -- PART IV NARCISSUS WRITTEN AND REWRITTEN -- 10. Narcissus and Echo: Feminine Haunting Masculine -- 11. Gide’s Narcissism -- 12. Reading the Glass: Fictive Solutions to the Narcissistic Quandary in Freud and Yeats -- 13. ‘The Idiosyncratic Mode of Regard’: Narcissistic Narrative in the Fiction of Thomas Hardy -- PART V IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS -- 14. Gaul and Woman as Reflected in the French Revolutionary’s Mirror -- 15. The Politics of Extreme Narcissism in the Discourse of the Front National -- 16. Self-Reflection through Language -- 17. Black Narcissus: Reflections on Identity in African Narrative -- PART VI THE FATE OF NARCISSUS -- 18. Jouy’s Cécile and the Narcissistic Romantic Hero -- 19. Narcissus’ Attitude to Death -- Notes on Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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In Greek mythology the beautiful Narcissus glimpsed his own reflection in the waters of a spring and fell in love. But his was an impossible passion and, filled with despair, he pined away. Over the years the myth has inspired painters, writers, and film directors, as well as philosophers and psychoanalysts. The tragic story of Narcissus, in love with himself, and of Echo, the nymph in love with him, lies at the heart of this collection of essays exploring the origins of the myth and some of its many cultural manifestations and meanings relating to the self and the self's relationship to the other. Through their discussion of the myth and its ramifications, the contributors to this volume broaden our understanding of one of the fundamental myths of Western culture.

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