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The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Volume 487) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

Alison L. Beringer

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Description:Beginning with Diodorus Siculus’s first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German Meisterlieder, this book explores the plethora of narratives about the ancient Babylonian queen Semiramis. The selected texts, most from continental Europe, cover a range of genres and languages. Organized thematically around issues of visual communication — acts of seeing and being seen — this study highlights the narrative fluidity in the matière de Sémiramide, ultimately revealing a figure of excess and surplus that defies classification and categorization. In its thematic focus, this study also draws on the competitive yet complementary relationship between the visual and the verbal.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Volume 487) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies). To get started finding The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Volume 487) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Beginning with Diodorus Siculus’s first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German Meisterlieder, this book explores the plethora of narratives about the ancient Babylonian queen Semiramis. The selected texts, most from continental Europe, cover a range of genres and languages. Organized thematically around issues of visual communication — acts of seeing and being seen — this study highlights the narrative fluidity in the matière de Sémiramide, ultimately revealing a figure of excess and surplus that defies classification and categorization. In its thematic focus, this study also draws on the competitive yet complementary relationship between the visual and the verbal.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Volume 487) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies). To get started finding The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Volume 487) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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