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 mati???re de S???miramide, ultimately revealing a figure of excess and surplus that ...
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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 mati???re de S???miramide, 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.
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2016
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