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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"PERSEPHONE"”.
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Persephone in Erebus: a modern paradigm
<p>The history of art has always been the history of humanity; therefore when the nineteenth century spilled into the twentieth and vast tidal changes were occur[r]ing in the fields of science, politics, and religion, the arts both reflected and reinforced these alterations. The most significant …
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Individuation and the Demeter-Persephone Myth in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley
… and major plot shifts in the "Hymn." Persephone's abduction and Demeter's wandering correspond with Caroline's sudden depression and with the shadow phase of individuation. Demeter's entrance into Eleusis and her caretaking of Demophoon mark the incorporation of the animus; in Volume …
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Spring Comes to Hades and Keeps Coming Back: An Analysis of Historical and Modern Adaptations of the Persephone Myth
… on gender, power, and choice. The myth of Persephone, after being adapted sporadically in the last two hundred years, experienced a resurgence in the new millennia. Its new adaptations by young creators exemplify a shift in the West towards acceptance and common ground. By analyzing works …
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Proof: A Collection
… three short stories, "The Lombard," "Proof' and "Persephone." In these stories, I have attempted to write modern works using some of the classic tropes of American Gothic literature. The most prominent of these tropes perhaps are the perverse and the "return of the repressed." "The Lombard" …
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Seeds of Change: A History of he Pomegranate as Symbol in Art and Literature
… 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 represent the same themes in the …
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MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION
… rape in three Greek myths: Cassandra, Persephone, and Philomela. I see the treatment of the rape in these myths' adaptations from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Timberlake Wertenbaker and Joanna Laurens as creating metanarratives that shame rape survivors and demean the violence of the rape …
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Maiden, Mother, Corpse: Greek Goddesses’ Dominion Over Life and Death in Myth and Literature
… art focused on the goddesses Aphrodite, Demeter, Persephone, and Artemis.
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The Mother-Daughter Dyad as Modernized Archetypal Mythology in The Last House On The Left and Carrie
… of well-known Greek myths – Demeter/Persephone and Clytemnestra/Electra – and argues that their violent manifestations of mother-daughter relationships gone awry construe the films as compensatory reactions to fears of the liberated woman, bringing “to the consciousness what [has …
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Discovering the heart's truth : female initiation in the novels of Eudora Welty
… between females and a shadowing of the Demeter/Persephone (Kore) myth. In addition, her female initiates lack the mentor traditionally found in male initiation. Also reflected in Welty's fiction is the separation involved in female initiation in primitive cultures, mythology, and psychology. Not …
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Alchemical Transformation and the Grief-Threshold in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt
… with mysterious feminine figures like Aphrodite, Persephone, Thetis, and the Egyptian goddess Isis provides a mythic landscape through which to welcome <em>anima mundi</em>--the soul of the world--inherent in the earth's beauty. She finally learns that the alchemically transforming heart perceives …
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Next-Generation Earth Radiation Budget Instrument Concepts
The current effort addresses two issues important to the research conducted by the Thermal Radiation Group at Virginia Tech. The first research topic involves the development of a method which can properly model the diffraction of radiation as it enters an instrument aperture. The second topic …