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Gradiva, or "She who steps along", is a mythic figure created by Wilhelm Jensen as a central character in his novella Gradiva (1902). [1] The character was inspired by an existing Roman relief. She later became a prominent subject in Surrealist art after Sigmund Freud published an essay on Jensen's work.
Plot synopsis. The story is about an archaeologist named Norbert Hanold who is obsessed with a woman depicted in a bas-relief that he sees in a museum in Rome. He names her Gradiva, Latin for "she who steps along".
Apr 27, 2020 · That’s what Gradiva (the name of an anonymous woman from an antique bas-relief) means, as given by a fictional character from a novella by Wilhelm Jensen. In other words, it’s an invented name for an unknown woman in stone. However, because of Freud, the figure has become a myth in her own right.
Mar 18, 2008 · Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Helen M .
Gradiva: Tracing the Pathways of Archaeological Desire. Freud commissioned a cast-relief of a woman walking, known as ‘Gradiva’, after seeing the original in the Vatican Museums in 1907.
In 1903 Wilhelm Jensen published a novella entitled Gradiva. Its hero, the German archaeologist Norbert Hanold, falls in love with the Roman bas-relief of a walking woman. He names her Gradiva (‘the girl stepping forward’). On a visit to Pompeii, in a “strangely dreamy condition” he meets a woman who seems to be this Gradiva.
In Gradiva , the narrative, propelled by the desire to know, assumes a specific fantasy structure which involves an idealization of femininity in the form of a plaster-cast bas-relief depicting a walking woman the hero calls Gradiva. He becomes obsessed with this sculpted figure and the obsession is at once an idealization of and defence against
Feb 15, 2014 · The tale was Wilhelm Jensen’s Gradiva, a little 115 romance designated by its author himself “A Pompeian Fancy.” In order that my further references may be to familiar material, I must now ask my readers to lay aside this pamphlet, and replace it for some time with Gradiva, which first
Page 13 - Apollo rose, now, however, only half of them, for the grey fall of ashes heaped itself likewise against them. When Norbert Hanold awoke, he still heard the confused cries of the...
