| Popis: |
Orpheus’ turn toward Eurydice, while ascending from Hades, is a memorable way of emphasizing the absolute intentionality of love. Langer analyses this episode of the myth in Virgil’s Georgics as not only conveying the “frenzy” of love, but also as advancing an argument for equity (and pardon), using the kinesic intelligence that allows us to absorb and understand the physical turn toward the beloved. This particular empathic movement is essential to a more general movement from universal qualities to specific qualities that is at the heart of Renaissance love lyric, as illustrated in a mourning sonnet by Petrarch and in a poem of praise of the beloved, in Sceve’s Delie. Orpheus’ tragic gesture constitutes the core of a kinesic memory in the lyric tradition. |
