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Helen’s semiotic body: ancient and modern representations
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Este artigo baseia-se em um trabalho teórico sobre a representação do corpo feminino como um objeto do olhar masculino na narrativa moderna, a fim de decodificar e analisar o retrato de Helena como um vácuo físico na literatura antiga. Defendo que a negação da corporalidade de Helena enfatiza a dualidade semiótica de seu corpo, permitindo que este seja apresentado tanto como um signo quanto como um lugar para a inscrição de signos. O artigo, então, mostra, na sequência, como a representação de Helena na Ilíada proporcionou ao filósofo Edmund Burke, do século XVIII, uma plataforma retórica sobre a qual teorizar a dicotomia estética entre o belo e o sublime. Encerro minha análise ilustrando como os ecletismos, concessões e pastiches que configuram as recriações cinematográficas de Helena encontram um paralelo com técnicas pictóricas antigas e assim as perpetuam.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.12.1.187-213
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Direitos autorais 2016 Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
Nuntius Antiquus
ISSN 2179-7064 (impressa) / ISSN 1983-3636 (eletrônica)
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