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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Greek Myth"”.
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The Early Yeats and Greek Myth
<p>The subject of this study is Yeats’s use of Greek myth in his early poems. By early poems is here meant those poems contained in Crossways (1889), The Rose (1893), The Wind Among the Reeds (1894), In the Seven Woods (1904), The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910), and Responsibilities (1914) as …
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
From the beginning, mythmaking has been profoundly patriarchal, and with the emergence of feminist movements came feminist revisionary adaptations of ancient myth. In this thesis, I argue Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) both stand as examples of feminist …
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Ο ΑΡΧΑΙΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ ΜΥΘΟΣ ΣΤΟ ΛΥΡΙΚΟ ΒΙΟ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΗΓΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΓΕΛΟΥ ΣΙΚΕΛΙΑΝΟΥ
THE STUDY FOCUSES IN THE ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL THEMES AND ELEMENTS OF THE LYRICAL WORK OF SIKELIANOS AND DEALS WITH THE ORIGIN OR THEIR SOURCES, DESCRIBES THE CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR POETIC FUNCTION AND COMMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF THEIR APPEARANCE, FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORK OF …
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Iambe and Baubo: A Study in Ritual Laughter
… an exploration of the cultural semantics of the myth of Iambe/Baubo. It reconsiders the primary sources and outlines the problems involved. A cross-cultural approach to the subject permits a discussion of the Greek myth in the broader framework of comparative folklore and provides a more …
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The Temple Terracottas of Etruscan Orvieto: A Vision of the Underworld in the Art and Cult of Ancient Volsinii
Incorporating both Etruscan as well as Greek myth, the themes selected for their cultic structures may also have been reflected in numerous locally produced small-scale works, many with ritual connotations which highlights the consistency in the visual language employed by local artists in the …
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Venus revisited : reflecting sights/sites of beauty and its embodiments
… idealised female body informed by its origins in Greek myth. Venus still informs current Western visual culture - the female body remains 'the map on which we mark our meanings' (Mullins, 1985: 331).
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Seeds of Change: A History of he Pomegranate as Symbol in Art and Literature
… the late nineteenth century. Beginning with the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone and the literature of the Old Testament, this fruit was employed to symbolize the cosmic cycle of life and death as well as the promise of immortality. The early Christians adopted this powerful image to …
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
… open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. Through the use of the Greek myth of Oedipus in its entirety, as opposed to the two most universally known events of the adult Oedipus' …
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Emotion, myth and meaning in architecture : psyche's journey through a warehouse
… and space. This sequence was abstracted from the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche. To do this the thesis uses a family of forms, a directional form for movement, their material and structural qualities, and the inter-relationships established between each of these and with the site. The site is a set …
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Man in the Mirror: A Mythology-Driven Exploration of Multiple User-Interpretations in a Multimedia Space
… immersive physical environment that embeds the Greek myth of Narcissus within itself. The subsequent user study provided insight on the process by which naïve visitors may come to deduce their meanings of a work, both individually and collaboratively. Our results showed that there exists a …
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Reclaiming Myth: Feminist Reinterpretations and the Creation of a More Inclusive Narrative
<p>This thesis examines the role of mythological reinterpretation and its expansion of the literary canon to inclusively reflect human experiences. According to scholars of myth such as Kalloli, Tyagi, and Armstrong, myths are meant to reflect enduring human experiences, making them relatable …
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology. This thesis articulates the development of my visual art and critical practice, exploring Black, female subjectivities within speculative narratives of the future. It proposes a new term, Dark Fecundity, which seeks to describe and …
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Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer
… Plomer's called "Tyco the Vegan," and one on a Greek myth (possibly Arion, Daedalus and Icarus, or Phaëthon). Far from being footnotes to the parables, these early collaborations established Plomer and Britten's working relationship and brought to light their common interests as well as their …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
This thesis, with its reflections on previous myth theories, especially structuralism in the 20th century and post-structuralist readings in recent decades, suggests a new approach for understanding Greek mythology. Taking Athenian autochthony as a case study, it argues that, instead of regarding …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
According to Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, either in the form of culture, or by using it to bring to life the clay people he had made. Margaret Homans distinguishes between what she calls literal and figurative creativity (1980:223). The woman who is a …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
… Families and Flocks, interrogates various mythic, historical and fictional examples of charismatic cult leadership, locating patterns in the paradigmatic nexus shared by monsters, cults and families. A trio of exegetical essays considers the tragic nature of lycanthropy, Nietzsche’s …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… and their meanings in contemporary voyage and myth. Starting from Hiroshima mon amour (1959), the first chapter delves into myth’s refashioned vitality, idea and value in the contemporary world. Marguerite Duras’s female protagonist can be aligned with Odysseus, unpacking the relation of space, …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
During the mid to late Victorian period, Euripides’ tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their …