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Falling in love with statues : artificial humans from Pygmalion to the present / George L. Hersey.
Van Pelt Library BL325.L67 H477 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hersey, George L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Mythology.
- Love.
- Mythology, Greek.
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
- Ovid.
- Pygmalion (Mythological character).
- Pygmalion.
- Galatea, statue brought to life (Greek mythology).
- Statues in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The island goddesses
- Cyprus, cypress, copper, Cypris
- Cypris the sculptor
- Beautiful bodies
- Ovid and tactility
- Demons and deliverance
- New races of automata
- The primacy of artificial humans.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-180) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226327792
- 0226327795
- OCLC:
- 267044264
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