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A study of the struggle between the apollonian facade and the dionysian face in ten plays by Peter Shaffer
A Study of the Struggle Between the Apollonian Facade and the Dionysian Face in Ten Plays by Peter Shaffer This is a study of the struggle between the Apollonian facade and the Dionysian face in ten plays by Peter Shaffer. Chapter One focuses on the destruction of the Apollonian facade by the …
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The Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
… promote the reconciliation of the Dionysian and Apollonian. These are the forces that characterize the eternal swing from nature to artifice. While evidence of the Apollonian will to construct an ordered reality abounds in the contemporary city, the ability to access the Dionysian realm of truth …
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Distribution of some arithmetic sequences
… of Ford circles, which is a special case of Apollonian circle packing. We provide the limiting distribution functions of these angles in different situations.
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On laughter
… and comedy, with particular reference to the Apollonian/Dionysian conceptual schemata referred to in Nietzsche’s early works. I will demonstrate how our understandings and experiences of the phenomena facilitate the meaningful nature of our relationships with human beings and the natural world …
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The dance of Apollo and Dionysus: The interplay of forces bridging the white viewer and the black dance
… culture by speaking to the deeply pervasive Apollonian and Dionysian impulses that underpin the heart of this philosophical investigation. Particular emphasis will be placed on locating the lures that motivate white individuals to both observe and participate in cross-cultural practices. …
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
… concept of divine inspiration, as it relates to "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" catharsis.
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Writing The see-through man: poetry and commentary
… comes to be understood as a metaphor for the Apollonian male body (considered to be a negative construct) and the versions of sonnets in the collection as examples of that form undergoing Dionysian adjustments.
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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
… promise of death, which is the veiled promise of Apollonian religiosity. In the end, both eternal return and the Heraclitean αἰών come forward as the recognition of the recurrent and necessarily finite character of existence, which lies at the heart of the tragic worldview.</p>
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The Oracle’s Dream
… plot that follows protagonists Nefeli, an Apollonian priestess in training turned hetaera; and her daughter Lena, a young lyricist navigating patriarchal society, grief, and guilt years later following Nefeli’s unexpected passing. The Oracle’s Dream challenges and subverts patriarchal …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
… of lycanthropy, Nietzsche’s conception of the Apollonian/ Dionysian dichotomy, the socio-cultural dynamics of charismatic cult leadership and the frightening, fascinating phenomenon of pseudologia fantastica. The first exegetical essay explores the lycanthropic and messianic qualities of two …
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The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study
… Nietzsche’s ideas on the typological pair Apollonian and Dionysian, Die Geburt der Tragödie (1872), were heavily indebted to Schiller. Carl Jung, having benefited from the insight of the two previously mentioned thinkers’ typological works, included chapters in recognition and criticism of …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
… voices and experiences of Homeric Nausicaa and Apollonian Medea structure the creation of the character of Europa.