The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
by Francine Prose
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0060555254
- ISBN 13
- 9780060555252
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About This Item
In the classical world, the muses -- all nine of them -- were daughters of Zeus who inspired poets, musicians, and other creative types to produce works of genius. Today, says Francine Prose, the word has been weakened and is used almost exclusively to refer to the chic women who help fashion designers inform their latest lines. But in her scholarly account, Prose (a National Book Award finalist for her novel Blue Angel) presents nine real women who moved men to greatness and who were not mere catalysts but worthy of note on their own, in many cases deserving a share of the credit for the work they helped create.
Each chapter is a mini-biography of a woman's life and the way a male artist figured into it. We see the muse as prompter and creator in her own regard, like memoirist Hester Thrale, whose letters to Samuel Johnson helped form his later works. In Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the muse is at her most passive, asserting her independence of the child-loving author only by failing to remain seven years old forever. And with Yoko Ono, there is the muse as artist in her own right, who claimed not to have heard of the Beatles before meeting John Lennon, and whose avant-garde tendencies some blamed for his musical downfall.
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- Title
- The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
- Author
- Francine Prose
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060555254
- ISBN 13
- 9780060555252
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Essays; First Editions; Non-Fiction;
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