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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"classical myth"”.
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MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION
Making Myth Matter analyzes the influence of classical myths and their adaptations on cultural values and offers a prescription for how the adaptation process may be improved for cultural sensitivity. My concern is to address the troubling treatment and interpretation of acquaintance rape in three …
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens
The focus of my thesis is the reception of classical myth in Georgian Britain as exemplified by responses to the garden imagery at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Previous explanations have tended to the view that the gardens were designed to recapitulate Virgil’s Aeneid. However, the garden owner, Henry …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… of the comic mode to the reception of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England. For a period characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of male virtue and the …
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Toward a Female Clown Practice: Transgression, Archetype and Myth
… as well as the transgressive potential of classical myth and archetypes for women, this thesis reconfigures clown practice and discourse by both challenging and developing upon Lecoq’s outmoded pedagogic practice. Its goal is to open it up for more types and modes of clown, in particular an …
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Medea senecana in lingua tedesca tra XVIII secolo e oggi
… century and today Analyzing the persistence of a mythological figure like Medea, who has endured through time and space, is a complex affair. It becomes apparent how the evolution of the heroine over the centuries assumes new meanings and adapts to constantly changing sociocultural contexts. …
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The Nature of the Interplay of Classical and Biblical Intertexts in Milton's Poetry
… the underworld, was the supreme heroic feat in classical myth and literature because it represented the accomplishment of the impossible: the conquest of death. Two out of three of the great ancient epics, Homer’s <i>Odyssey</i> and Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i>, therefore, set the <i>catabasis</i> at …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …