Author: Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060120
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey.
The Incredible Voyage of Ulysses
Author: Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060120
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey.
Hispania
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.
Stages of Desire
Author: Michael KiddPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025087
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with plots or characters derived from the Greco-Roman tradition, Michael Kidd shows that the concept of desire plays a pivotal role in adapting myth to the stage in each of several historical periods. In Stages of Desire, Kidd offers a new way of looking at the theater in Spain. Reviewing the work of playwrights from Juan del Encina to Luis Riaza, he suggests that desire constitutes a central element in a large number of Greco-Roman myths and shows how dramatists have exploited this to resituate ancient narratives within their own artistic and ideological horizons. Among the works he analyzes are Timoneda's Tragicomedia llamada Filomena, Castro's Dido y Eneas, and Unamuno's Fedra. Kidd explores how seventeenth-century playwrights were constrained by the conventions of the newly formed national theater, and how in the twentieth century mythological desire was exploited by playwrights engaged in upsetting the melodramatic conventions of the entrenched bourgeois theater. He also examines the role of desire both in the demythification of prominent classical heroes during the Franco regime and in the cultural critique of institutionalized discrimination in the current democratic period. Stages of Desire is an original and broad-ranging study that highlights both change and continuity in Spanish theater. By elegantly combining theory, literary history, and close textual analysis, Kidd demonstrates both the resilience of Greco-Roman myths and the continuing vitality of the Spanish stage.
Ulysses
Author: Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary
Author: Janice Valls-RussellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135012589X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals' staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This dictionary elucidates Shakespeare's use of mythological references in an early modern context, while bringing them to life for today's audiences and readers, at a time of renewed critical interest in the reception of the classics and fascination with classical mythology in popular culture. It is also a precious tool for practitioners who may not always know quite what to make of mythological references. Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings and characters or plots in their own right. Most of these references were familiar to Shakespeare's spectators and readers, who knew them from the writings of Ovid, Virgil and other classical authors, or indirectly through translations, commentaries, ballads and iconography. This dictionary illustrates how, far from being isolated, a mythological reference may resonate with the poetics of the text and its structure, cast light on characters and contexts, and may therefore be worth exploring onstage in a variety of ways. The 200 headings correspond to words and names actually used by Shakespeare: individual figures (Dido, Venus, Hercules), categories (Amazons, Centaurs, nymphs, satyrs), places (Colchos, Troy). Medium and longer entries also cover early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach that includes reception, textual, performance, gender and political studies.
Flora & Ulysses
Author: Kate DiCamilloPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076366040X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.
Bowker's Complete Video Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home video systems industry
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Odysseus
Author: Peter OswaldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1783192437
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
After ten years at war, Odysseus returns to Ithaka to find his palace in the hands of violent men. These mortal enemies are overcome but the ghosts of war are not so easily vanquished. Drawing on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and loosely following the model of classical Greek drama, Peter Oswald explores the personal journey behind the fantastic one, and asks what it means to be a hero.
Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez
Author: Jelena O. KrstovicPublisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN: 9780810393752
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Hispanic literature criticism presents a selection of the best criticism of works by major Hispanic writers of the past one hundred years.
Author: Alistair MacLean