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LaocoönIn classical mythology, a Trojan priest of Apollo and a visionary, brother of Anchises. He and his sons were killed by serpents when he foresaw disaster for Troy in the Trojan horse left by the Greeks. The scene of their death is the subject of a classical marble group, rediscovered in the Renaissance, and forms an episode in Virgil's Aeneid. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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[12] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laokoon oder uber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766) in: Werke. The Ekphrastic Principle and the Still Movement of Poetry; or Laokoon Revisited. The theoretical apparatus that Small employs in order to enact this critique is reminiscent of the reading lists for graduate students in comparative literature in the 1980s, from Lessing's essay on Laokoon and Propp's plot typologies, to Barthes's S/Z. |
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