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Sculpture in Literature (No. 28)

  • Softback
  • Henry Moore Institute | 2000
  • 12pp
  • 298 x 210mm
  • 2 illustrations
  • ISBN: 1900081571

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This essay records three papers first presented at the one day symposium 'Literature, Sculpture, Symbolism and its Legacy', held at the Henry Moore Institute on 21 March 1997:

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Form (1860)
Mary Hamer

Gloriani's Gaze: Sculpture and Literature in Henry James' Roderick Hudson (1875) and The Ambassadors (1903)
Anthony Hughes

From Parnassus to the Gates of Hell: Sculpture in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô (1862) and Pierre Louÿs' Aphrodite (1896)
Peter Read

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