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Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Silvia Montiglio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786732903
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Hero and Leander written by Silvia Montiglio and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the passage. Since they cannot hope to marry, the couple resolves to meet in secret: each night he swims across to her, guided by the light of her torch. But the time comes when a winter storm kills both the light and Leander. At dawn, Hero sees her lover's mangled body washed ashore, and so hurls herself from the tower to meet him in death. Silvia Montiglio here shows how and why this affecting story has proved to be one of the most popular and perennial mythologies in the history of the West. Discussing its singular drama, danger, pathos and eroticism, the author explores the origin of the legend and its rich and varied afterlives. She shows how it was used by Greek and Latin writers; how it developed in the Middle Ages - notably in the writings of Christine de Pizan - and Renaissance; how it inspired Byron to swim the Dardanelles; and how it has lived on in representations by artists including Rubens and Frederic Leighton.
Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527551539
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Refashioning Myth written by David McInnis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Graves tells us that “the poet’s first enrichment is a knowledge and understanding of myths.” Certainly, as this collection of essays, poems and visual images affirms, mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity through to the present day. It is testament to both the enduring power of myth, as well as the adaptability of its form, that poets and writers continually turn to the mythic for both inspiration and guidance. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists, in response to their varied explorations of the prolific dialogue that exists between myth and poetry.
Author : Martin Schutze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781436869447
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander: A Tragedy (1908) written by Martin Schutze and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Alicia E. Ellis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631727
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas written by Alicia E. Ellis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer's Classical Plays explores language as a cultural document for an intervention into the ways that female alterity is framed in the ancient world. Grillparzer creates a new way of being that is primarily discursive in which the once unintelligible female figure may be known and heard"--
Author : Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387891X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Allusions and Reflections written by Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...
Author : Benedict S. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351895427
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Textual Conversations in the Renaissance written by Benedict S. Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge', wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo's, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept that functioned simultaneously as a privileged literary and rhetorical form (the dialogue), an intellectual and artistic program (the humanists' interactions with ancient texts), and a political possibility (the king's council, or the republican concept of mixed government). In its varieties of knowledge production, the Renaissance was centrally concerned with debate and dialogue, not only among scholars, but also, and perhaps more importantly, among and with texts. Renaissance reading practices were active and engaged: such conversations with texts were meant to prepare the mind for political and civic life, and the political itself was conceived as fundamentally conversational. The humanist idea of conversation thus theorized the relationships among literature, politics, and history; it was one of the first modern attempts to locate cultural production within a specific historical and political context. The essays in this collection investigate the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated textual conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical, religious, and social practices. They focus on the importance of conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the material and textual technologies that enabled early modern conversations.
Author : Joan Rois de Corella
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266646
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella written by Joan Rois de Corella and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.
Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515122753
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. After Marlowe's untimely death it was completed by George Chapman. The minor poet Henry Petowe published an alternative completion to the poem. The poem was first published posthumously, five years after Marlowe's demise. Marlowe's poem relates the Greek legend of Hero and Leander, young lovers living in cities on opposite sides of the Hellespont, a narrow stretch of the sea in what is now northwestern Turkey, and which separates Europe and Asia. Hero is a priestess or devotee of Venus (goddess of love and beauty) in Sestos, who lives in chastity despite being devoted to the goddess of love. At a festival in honour of her deity, Venus and Adonis, she is seen by Leander, a youth from Abydos on the opposite side of the Hellespont. Leander falls in love with her, and she reciprocates, although cautiously, as she has made a vow of chastity to Venus. Leander convinces her to abandon her fears. Hero lives in a high tower overlooking the water; he asks her to light a lamp in her window, and he promises to swim the Hellespont each night to be with her. She complies. On his first night's swim, Leander is spotted by Neptune (Roman god of the sea), who confuses him with Ganymede and carries him to the bottom of the ocean. Discovering his mistake, the god returns him to shore with a bracelet supposed to keep him safe from drowning. Leander emerges from the Hellespont, finds Hero's tower and knocks on the door, which Hero then opens to find him standing stark naked. She lets him "whisper in her ear, / Flatter, entreat, promise, protest, and swear," and after a series of coy, half-hearted attempts to "defend the fort" she yields to bliss. The poem breaks off as dawn is breaking.
Author : Brian Kinsey
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0761499814
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Heroes and Heroines of Greece and Rome written by Brian Kinsey and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores well-known heroic figures as well as the demigods, nymphs, sorceresses, and other creatures that inhabited the mortal world and figured prominently in the myths of the heroes and heroines of Greece and Rome.
Author : Nora Clark
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387678X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis written by Nora Clark and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis is a broad, flexible source book of comparative literature and cultural studies. It promotes the wide-ranging presence and impact of prominent idiosyncratic personalities in fabled goddess mythology and its emphatic notions of endearment and allure. The book brings together seven hundred acknowledged sources drawn from successive historical, global and literary eras, including principal commentaries, along with factual information and important renditions in art, prose and verse, within and beyond mainstream western culture. A lengthy, detailed introduction presents a copious documented preview of the viable adaptation and mimesis of ‘divine’ characterization and its respective centrality from the long distant past to the present day. Myth, rarely latent, demonstrates varied modes of expression and open-ended flexibility throughout the six comprehensive chapters which illuminate and probe, in turn, aspects of the ideological presence, sensibilities, trials and triumphs and interventions of the goddess, whether sacred or profane. Particular literary extracts and episodes range across ancient cultures alongside quite recent expressions of hermeneutics, blending myth with the contemporary in the multi-layered reception or admonishment of the goddess, whether by one designation or the other. As such, this book is wholly relevant to all stages of the evolution and expansion of a dynamic European literary culture and its leading authors and personalities.
Author : Sara Munson Deats
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317166485
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Christopher Marlowe at 450 written by Sara Munson Deats and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each chapter has been written by an eminent, international Marlovian scholar to determine what has been covered, what has not, and what scholarship and criticism will or might focus on next. The volume considers all of Marlowe’s dramas and his poetry, including his translations, as well as the following special topics: Critical Approaches to Marlowe; Marlowe’s Works in Performance; Marlowe and Theatre History; Electronic Resources for Marlovian Research; and Marlowe’s Biography. Included in the discussions are the native, continental, and classical influences on Marlowe and the ways in which Marlowe has interacted with other contemporary writers, including his influence on those who came after him. The volume has appeal not only to students and scholars of Marlowe but to anyone interested in Renaissance drama and poetry. Moreover, the significance for readers lies in the contributors’ approaches as well as in their content. Interest in the biography of Christopher Marlowe and in his works has bourgeoned since the turn of the century. It therefore seems especially appropriate at this time to present a comprehensive assessment of past and present traditional and innovative lines of inquiry and to look forward to future developments.
Author : Margarete Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870460
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The City of Scholars written by Margarete Zimmermann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine De Pizan (Topics in Sociolinguistics).
Author : William Zunder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780952318002
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Marlowe written by William Zunder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a discussion suitable for students, this book considers all Marlowe's major works in their historical and discursive context: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Doctor Faustus, and Hero and Leander. Marlowe's writing emerges as embedded in the historical processes of his time and as crossed by the contradictory discourses of his day.
Author : İnci Oya Coşkun
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981155370X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Heritage Tourism Beyond Borders and Civilizations written by İnci Oya Coşkun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the best papers presented at the 11th Tourism Outlook Conference, held in Eskişehir, Turkey, from 3 to 5 October 2018. Covering various aspects of heritage and its effects on tourism issues, the contributions provide a multidisciplinary perspective on emerging issues and challenges in the area. The book also analyzes both the tangible and intangible properties of natural, cultural, and historical heritage and how these relate to and influence tourism, and evaluates the importance and role of heritage in tourism destinations and products. By providing a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogues that integrate research and insights from diverse geographical, sectoral and institutional perspectives, the book allows readers to gain a better understanding of heritage tourism.
Author : Oscar Zielke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sir Orfeo written by Oscar Zielke and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110104716X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology written by Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make no myth-take-this book is indispensable. The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology explores the gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and angels of the myths from every corner of the globe. Additionally, it explores the parallels between every culture and the striking similarities in mythic figures and the structure, action, wording, and result of the stories themselves. * Covers Egyptian, Celtic, Teutonic, Norse, Japanese, Mexican, Native American, and other myths * Features information on The Hero's Journey-the cycle of myth according to Jung, Campbell, and others * Appendixes include a glossary of terms and both a general and a subject Index
