The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination by Stephen Downes
The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

Stephen Downes

The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

Stephen Downes

300 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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For the reader who is fascinated by the intricate dance between art, desire, and identity, The Muse as Eros: Music, Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination by Stephen Downes offers a rich and thought-provoking journey through the complex and alluring world of male creativity, where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur in the pursuit of artistic expression.

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This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved, imagined or desired muse, to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculi...

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