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25 octobre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.1632
- isbn: 9782960071788
- eisbn: 9782821895638
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Emma Aston, « Gods, monsters and imagery », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.1632
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Introduction During Section Three of this book, it has been established that mixanthropic deities had a special relationship with the theme and the process of representation. Mixanthropes do not – cannot – exist in nature, and so to depict them is not just an act of mimesis but the conception of something extraordinary; it is, in a sense, a type of creation, of giving form and substance to the impossible. It is more than depiction. In addition, it has been shown that the representation of a m...