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Minos and the Moderns
Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
E-bok, 2008
1096 kr
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Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by …
Alchemist in Literature
From Dante to the Present
E-bok, 2015
485 kr
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Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante''s Inferno down to the present. From the …
Minos and the Moderns
Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Inbunden, 2008
1704 kr
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Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedelus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by …
The Alchemist in Literature
From Dante to the Present
Inbunden, 2015
1976 kr
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Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno down to the present. From the …
The Alchemist in Literature
From Dante to the Present
Häftad, 2019
762 kr
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Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante's Inferno down to the present. From the …
Minos and the Moderns
Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
E-bok, 2008
1096 kr
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Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by …
Classicism of the Twenties
Art, Music, and Literature
E-bok, 2015
1046 kr
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The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct and influential was a turn to classicism. In Classicism of the Twenties , …
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions
Av Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Theodore Ziolkowski
Häftad, 2024
252 kr
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These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers.The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only …
Modes of Faith
Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief
E-bok, 2008
1155 kr
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In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion’s …
Uses and Abuses of Moses
Literary Representations Since the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2016
1235 kr
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Surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, Ziolkowski examines an impressive array of dramas, poems, operas, novels, and films to show the many ways in which the charismatic figure …
Scandal on Stage
European Theater as Moral Trial
Inbunden, 2009
1261 kr
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New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. …
German Romanticism and Its Institutions
Häftad, 1992
1114 kr
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Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers …
Sin of Knowledge
Ancient Themes and Modern Variations
Inbunden, 2000
1698 kr
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Adam, Prometheus, and Faust--their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theodore Ziolkowski explores how each myth represents a response on the part of ancient Hebrew, ancient …
Mirror of Justice
Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
Häftad, 2003
653 kr
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This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law …
Mirror of Justice
Literary Reflections of Legal Crises
E-bok, 2018
902 kr
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This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law …
Sin of Knowledge
Ancient Themes and Modern Variations
E-bok, 2021
1312 kr
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Adam, Prometheus, and Faust--their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theodore Ziolkowski explores how each myth represents a response on the part of ancient Hebrew, ancient …
German Romanticism and Its Institutions
E-bok, 2021
735 kr
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Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers …
View from the Tower
Origins of an Antimodernist Image
Häftad, 2014
779 kr
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Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia …
Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Av Herman Meyer, Theodore Ziolkowski
Häftad, 2015
598 kr
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This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as " ...a literary historian, who has a …
View from the Tower
Origins of an Antimodernist Image
Inbunden, 2016
1636 kr
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Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia …
Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Av Herman Meyer, Theodore Ziolkowski
Inbunden, 2016
2303 kr
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This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as " ...a literary historian, who has a …
Clio the Romantic Muse
Historicizing the Faculties in Germany
Inbunden, 2003
836 kr
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"It is not sufficiently appreciated, I believe, how profoundly Clio, the muse of history, permeated every aspect of thought during the Romantic era: philosophy, theology, law, natural science, medicine, and all other fields of intellectual endeavor.... Thoughtful students of the period well …
Hesitant Heroes
Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis
Inbunden, 2003
820 kr
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Why, Theodore Ziolkowski wonders, does Western literature abound with figures who experience a crucial moment of uncertainty in their actions? In this highly original and engaging work, he explores the significance of these unlikely heroes for literature and history.From Aeneas—who wavered …
Ovid and the Moderns
Inbunden, 2004
901 kr
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"The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid—his life as well as his works—at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave their classic form—including prominently the …
Gilgamesh Among Us
Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic
Inbunden, 2011
611 kr
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The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu, a wildman sent by the gods. Gilgamesh was deified by the Sumerians …
Scandal on Stage
European Theater as Moral Trial
Häftad, 2013
714 kr
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New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. …
View from the Tower
Origins of an Antimodernist Image
E-bok, 2014
574 kr
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Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia …
Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
Av Herman Meyer, Theodore Ziolkowski
E-bok, 2015
689 kr
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This work, which has had a pronounced impact on European literary scholarship since its publication in 1961, represents a new and imaginative approach to the history and poetics of the novel. Emil Staiger, dean of Swiss critics, describes Professor Meyer as "e; ... a literary historian, who has …
Lure of the Arcane
The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
Inbunden, 2013
590 kr
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Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations-drama, romance, epic, novel, opera-down to the thrillers …
Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History
Häftad, 2017
420 kr
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Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world's first conspiracy. …
