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Cyclops
The Myth and its Cultural History
AvRichard Buxton,Mercedes Aguirre
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
426 kr
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A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed!This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. The first part is organised thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, the authors analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths, including medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, poetry, drama, the visual arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, film, and even a circus performance. This book aims to explore not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology which raises complex issues of thought and emotion.
Cyclops
The Myth and its Cultural History
AvRichard Buxton,Mercedes Aguirre
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
426 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed!This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. The first part is organised thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, the authors analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths, including medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, poetry, drama, the visual arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, film, and even a circus performance. This book aims to explore not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology which raises complex issues of thought and emotion.
Cyclops
The Myth and its Cultural History
AvMercedes Aguirre,Richard Buxton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
619 kr
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A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed!This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity until the present day. The first part is organised thematically: after discussing various competing scholarly approaches to the myths, the authors analyse ancient accounts and images of the Cyclopes in relation to landscape, physique (especially eyes, monstrosity, and hairiness), lifestyle, gods, names, love, and song. While the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, famous already in the Odyssey, plays a major part, so also do the Cyclopes who did monumental building work, as well as those who toiled as blacksmiths. The second part of the book concentrates on the post-classical reception of the myths, including medieval allegory, Renaissance grottoes, poetry, drama, the visual arts, contemporary painting and sculpture, film, and even a circus performance. This book aims to explore not just the perennial appeal of the Cyclopes as fearsome monsters, but the depth and subtlety of their mythology which raises complex issues of thought and emotion.
Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
AvBenjamin Lempert,Mercedes Aguirre
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2017
135 kr
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A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston'' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture.
Hurston’s approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value.
Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.
Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
AvBenjamin Lempert,Mercedes Aguirre
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
135 kr
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A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston'' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture.
Hurston’s approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value.
Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.
Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
AvMercedes Aguirre,Benjamin Lempert
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
111 kr
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A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture. Hurston’s approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value. Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.
Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression
AvMercedes Aguirre,Benjamin Lempert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
331 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing evaluation of the many racial prejudices of 1930s America, including a common presumption that African American art was unoriginal – merely poorly copying white culture. Hurston’s approach and premises may seem in many ways dated to modern readers, but the essay still shows an incisive mind carefully evaluating arguments and cutting them down to size. African-American art of the time did not – Hurston influentially argued – play by the same rules as white art, so it could not meaningfully be discussed by ‘white’ notions of aesthetic value. Where white European tradition views art as something fixed, Hurston saw African-American art works as a distinctive form of mimicry, reshaping and altering the original object until it became something new and novel. In this way, she contended, African-American creative expression is a process that generates its own form of originality – turning borrowed material into something original and unique. By carefully evaluating the relevance of previous arguments, Hurston showed African American artistic expression in an entirely new light.
Unfinished Painting, The
AvMercedes Aguirre
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
122 kr
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In Victorian England, a young painter dies in strange and violent circumstances. In the present day, a student of art history at Cambridge University has recurrent dreams which link her with past events and with a painting that was never finished.What connects these two episodes apparently remote in time?Drama, mystery, myth and a touch of the supernatural are the ingredients of this novel, which spans the world of the Pre-Raphaelite artists and the lives of people today.
Las cabezas de la Hidra
AvMercedes Aguirre
E-bok
Spanska, 2023
81 kr
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Ha pasado el tiempo para la inspectora Clara Valentín. Ahora, casada y con un niño pequeño, tiene que compaginar su trabajo en la policía con la familia. Pero un nuevo caso que al principio parece de rutina se convertirá en un caso extraordinario: unos crímenes que presentan un extraño y sorprendente factor en común y que requerirán todo su ingenio para resolverlos.En esta quinta novela de Mercedes Aguirre la alusión al mito de la Hidra de Lerna aparece como una metáfora que muestra cómo unos hechos ocurridos hoy pueden encontrar su sentido en el pasado.
Sangre de Centauro
AvMercedes Aguirre
E-bok
Spanska, 2023
75 kr
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¿Qué relación tiene un hombre quemado cuyos restos aparecen de madrugada en un callejón de Madrid con la representación de una tragedia griega?La inspectora Clara Valentín será la encargada de resolver un caso en el que nada es lo que parece.El mito clásico y la ficción policíaca se dan la mano en esta cuarta novela de Mercedes Aguirre.

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Mercedes Aguirre – författare

Cyclops

Cyclops

Cyclops

Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression

Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression

Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression

Analysis of Zora Heale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression

Unfinished Painting, The

Las cabezas de la Hidra

Sangre de Centauro

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