Dionysos In Tears

Author : Charles Fontenay
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595288731

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Dionysos in Tears by Charles Fontenay Pdf

When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh, a young, beautiful secretary at his newspaper office, a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid, comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together evolves into only a pattern of family visits, clouded by the disapproval of Lion's wife, Cynthia. But April's determination, if unconscious, is not to be deterred by his marriage--or her own subsequent one. The social and distance barriers to their union seem insurmountable. However, whether or not, as friend Brightwood suggests, some Destiny is involved, their mutual attraction is inexorable--and Mother wants a grandson. Dissolving the barriers to their consummation involves Lion's conversion, by virtue of April's poetic fancy, from a rather conservative newsman into a springtime forest god. The conversion successful-at heavy cost-Lion finds that, alas, to trust a woman is to write one's memoirs in the snow. When their tug of war concludes, he is confronted with the ultimate question: has he won or lost?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004310698

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Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis by Anonim Pdf

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by international scholars who explore the work of the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity, the author of the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca and the ‘Christian’ Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel.

Author : Robert Shorrock
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472519658

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The Myth of Paganism by Robert Shorrock Pdf

Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas Christian poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, so-called pagan or secular poetry is largely ignored, as though it has no meaningful part to play within the late antique world. The Myth of Paganism sets out to deconstruct this view of two contrasting poetic traditions and proposes in its place a new integrated model for the understanding of late antique poetry. As the book argues, the poet of Christ and the poet of the Muses were drawn together into an active, often provocative, dialogue about the relationship between Christianity and the Classical tradition and, ultimately, about the meaning of late antiquity itself. An analysis of the poetry of Nonnus of Panopolis, author of both a 'pagan' epic about Dionysus and a Christian translation of St John's Gospel, helps to illustrate this complex dialectic between pagan and Christian voices.

Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421402215

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Hart Crane's Poetry by John T. Irwin Pdf

In one of his letters Hart Crane wrote, "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio," comparing—misspelling and all—the great French poet’s cosmopolitan roots to his own more modest ones in the midwestern United States. Rebelling against the notion that his work should relate to some European school of thought, Crane defiantly asserted his freedom to be himself, a true American writer. John T. Irwin, long a passionate and brilliant critic of Crane, gives readers the first major interpretation of the poet’s work in decades. Irwin aims to show that Hart Crane’s epic The Bridge is the best twentieth-century long poem in English. Irwin convincingly argues that, compared to other long poems of the century, The Bridge is the richest and most wide-ranging in its mythic and historical resonances, the most inventive in its combination of literary and visual structures, the most subtle and compelling in its psychological underpinnings. Irwin brings a wealth of new and varied scholarship to bear on his critical reading of the work—from art history to biography to classical literature to philosophy—revealing The Bridge to be the near-perfect synthesis of American myth and history that Crane intended. Irwin contends that the most successful entryway to Crane’s notoriously difficult shorter poems is through a close reading of The Bridge. Having admirably accomplished this, Irwin analyzes Crane’s poems in White Buildings and his last poem, "The Broken Tower," through the larger context of his epic, showing how Crane, in the best of these, worked out the structures and images that were fully developed in The Bridge. Thoughtful, deliberate, and extraordinarily learned, this is the most complete and careful reading of Crane’s poetry available. Hart Crane may have lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but, as Irwin masterfully shows, his poems stand among the greatest written in the English language.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781647920135

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Aristophanes: Frogs by Aristophanes Pdf

Aristophanes's classic send-up of rivalry within the ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here by Meineck’s notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of Athens's late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.

Author : Nonnus Nonnos of Panopolis
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 1245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Delphi Complete Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Illustrated) by Nonnus Nonnos of Panopolis Pdf

‘The Dionysiaca’, an epic tale of the life and adventures of the god Dionysus, was composed by Nonnus of Panopolis and is the longest extant epic to survive antiquity. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete ‘Dionysiaca’ in Greek and English for the first time in publishing history, accompanied with beautiful illustrations, an informative introduction, special dual text feature and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nonnus’ life and works * Features all 48 books of ‘The Dionysiaca’, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Includes translations previously appearing in Loeb Classical Library editions of Nonnus’ works * Images of famous paintings that have been inspired by Nonnus’ works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the parts you want to read with individual contents tables * Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features a bonus biography – discover Nonnus’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: there is no translation of Nonnus’ paraphrase of the Gospel of John in the public domain and so it cannot appear in this collection. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles CONTENTS: The Translation THE DIONYSIACA The Greek Text CONTENTS OF THE GREEK TEXT The Dual Text DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography INTRODUCTION TO NONNUS by W. H. D. Rouse Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Author : David Calcutt
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0174326092

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Goat Song by David Calcutt Pdf

A single full-length play loosely based on the Greek myth of Dionysos and encompassing a whole range of European dramatic traditions. The play deals with the contrast of man as beast (our essential nature) and as civilised being (embracing morals, nature and decorum).

Author : Byrne Fone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231096712

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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature by Byrne Fone Pdf

Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, "The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature" presents a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that depict love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex between men.

Author : Brigitte Peucker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810139084

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Aesthetic Spaces by Brigitte Peucker Pdf

Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows that when painterly or theatrical conventions are appropriated by the medium of film, the dissonant effects produced open it up to intermedial reflection and tell us a great deal about cinema itself. The films studied in these chapters include those by Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Carl Th. Dreyer, Peter Greenaway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, Lars von Trier, Spike Jonze, Éric Rohmer, Lech Majewski, and others. Where two media are in evidence in these films, there is usually a third, and often theater mediates between film and painting. Aesthetic Spaces interrogates issues of cinematic space and mise-en-scène from different but interconnected theoretical perspectives, organizing its chapters around some of the formal principles—space, spectator, frame, color and lighting, props, décor, and actor—that shape films. Drawing on the older arts to renew cinema, the films examined deploy paintings as material: Poussin and Bruegel, Rembrandt, Hals and Klimt, and medieval illustrations and modernist abstractions are used to expand our notions of cinematic space. Peucker shows that when different media come together in film, they create effects of dissonance out of which new modes of looking may arise.

Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554162

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Forms of Astonishment by Richard Buxton Pdf

In this illustrated study Richard Buxton analyses Greek literary narratives and visual representations of the metamorphosis of humans and gods, as evidenced from Homer to Nonnos. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling translation by Ted Hughes; Buxton explores their Greek antecedents. He investigates such issues as: How do different contexts shape the way in which metamorphosis is narrated? How do the assumptions of commentators about 'strangeness' affect how metamorphosis is interpreted? How far should an interpreter allow 'contextual charity' to render more acceptable a belief such as that in metamorphosis? What are the implications of the notions of 'astonishment' (Greek: thambos) in a range of narratives about transformation? Throughout Forms of Astonishment Buxton draws comparisons between the Greek evidence and data from other religious traditions, ancient and modern; he also introduces comparative material from the sciences, from modern painting and literature, and from the cinema and computer graphics. In investigating metamorphoses of gods Buxton revisits the concept of anthropomorphism, arguing that the fact that Greek divinities were believed to change shape does not undermine the fundamentally humanlike form of Greek divinity. He also examines certain strands of Greek tradition, particularly among the philosophers, which called metamorphosis into question, whether in relation to the gods or to humans. Individual chapters deal with transformations into the landscape and into plants or trees—in the latter case transformation stories are set against a background of cultural beliefs about 'seminal' substances such as blood and tears. Overall, Forms of Astonishment raises issues relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture, and illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

Author : Patricia Ann Mueller-Vollmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010217318

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Dionysos Reborn by Patricia Ann Mueller-Vollmer Pdf

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521639875

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Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

A new translation and edition of one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472061526

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Four Comedies by Aristophanes Pdf

A collection of Aristophanes' famous comedy plays. Each play includes notes and an introduction.

Author : Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781118455128

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan Pdf

This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on ‘lost’ playwrights Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama’s relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play

Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674286948

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Tragic Modernities by Miriam Leonard Pdf

Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.