Book of the Sphinx (Texts and Contexts series) - Hardcover

Regier, Willis Goth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803239564 ISBN 13: 9780803239562

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature &;the symbol of the symbolic itself.&; With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements.

 

Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable&;proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.

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Willis Goth Regier has pursued Sphinxes at the University of Nebraska, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University. He now seeks Sphinxes at the University of Illinois.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803239564
• ISBN 13: 9780803239562
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 297
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