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The muse as Eros : music, erotic fantasy and male creativity in the romantic and modern imagination / Stephen Downes

by Stephen C. Downes

This study examines the relationship between the male artist and the muse in music, tracing the shift in representations of masculine subjectivity from nineteenth-century Romantic Idealism to twentieth-century Modernist Anxiety.

Accession 7706 ISBN 9780754635703 Publisher Ashgate
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