The Metamorphosis of the Gods
Author : André Malraux
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Art
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Author : André Malraux
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Art
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Author : André Malraux
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Art
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Author : Ovid
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Andrew M Feldherr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400836549
This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Michael Triegel
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9783777433714
Michael Triegel, whose paintings of religious subjects led him to receive a commission for an official portrait of Pope Benedict XVI, is one of the most important artists of the New Leipzig School, and this highly illustrated volume offers the first overview of his career to date. It reproduces more than 120 works, primarily paintings, created between 2003 and 2010, alongside preparatory sketches, drawings, watercolors, and etchings, while essays and commentaries set Triegel's work in context of contemporary trends and the cultural situation of Germany and Europe in the period.
Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0199245495
An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Author : Ovid
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780806128948
Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.
Author : Keiron Le Grice
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780863157752
The modern world is passing through a time of critical change on many levels: cultural, political, ecological, and spiritual. We are witnessing the decline and dissolution of the old order and the tumult and uncertainty of a new birth. Against this background is the urgent need for a coherent framework of meaning to guide and to lead individuals and society beyond the growing fragmentation of culture, belief, and personal identity. Keiron Le Grice asserts that developing insights of a new cosmology can provide this framework to us discover an underlying order that shapes our life experiences. In a compelling synthesis of ideas from the seminal thinkers of depth psychology and new paradigm sciences, The Archetypal Cosmos positions the new discipline of archetypal astrology at the center of an emerging worldview that reunifies psyche and cosmos, spirituality and science, and mythology and metaphysics to enable us to see mythic gods, heroes, and themes in a new light. The author draws especially on the work of Jung, Joseph Campbell, Richard Tarnas, Fritjof Capra, David Bohm and Brian Swimme. Heralding a "rediscovery of the gods" and passage into a new spiritual era, The Archetypal Cosmos presents a new understanding of the role of myth and archetypal principles in our lives, one that could give a cosmic perspective and deeper meaning to our personal experiences.
Author : André Malraux (Schriftsteller, Frankreich)
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1960
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