Mythology in French Literature
Author: Phillip Crant
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789051834628
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Author: Phillip Crant
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789051834628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0804728100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Which techniques did poets use to integrate classical subject matter into their own texts? Was a special interpretive tradition created for vernacular texts? In Chapter 1, the author shows how Latin epic texts were reoriented for political purposes in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm, gaining new depth by the addition of Ovidian elements that evoked threats of a disorder different from the struggles of classical epic. Chapter 2 analyzes the complex use of myth in the thirteenth-century Roman de la Rose, which offers new conjunctions and interpretations of myths related to language, artistic expression, and sexuality. Chapter 3 focuses on the interpretive techniques and vocabulary of the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé, such as "allegory," "fable," and istoire, arguing that the Christianization of the Metamorphoses created a "new Ovid" in the form of a fourteenth-century friar. Chapter 4 reveals that, although Guillaume de Machaut questioned the usefulness of mythic fables, he turned to them to invoke artistic consolation and ward off threats to his poetic voice. It also describes how Jean Froissart produced new myths by combining existing fables with newly invented elements in an attempt to dramatize the poetic creativity of his age. Finally, Chapter 5 demonstrates how Christine de Pizan offered the full range of medieval possibilities for myth: playing with the mythographic tradition, inscribing herself into Ovidian myths, offering historical explanations, rewriting myths from a pro-woman stance, and finally creating mythic universes of her own.
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0809071940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Author: Susanna Phillippo
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783034308519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Author: Joël Schmidt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dorothy Johnson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011-02-14
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0807877751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth. Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gerard, Ingres, and Delacroix and sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou, David to Delacroix reveals how these artists offered innovative reinterpretations of myth while incorporating contemporaneous and revolutionary discoveries in the disciplines of anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, and medicine. The interplay among these disciplines, Johnson argues, led to a reexamination by visual artists of the historical and intellectual structures of myth, its social and psychological dimensions, and its construction as a vital means of understanding the self and the individual's role in society. This confluence is studied in depth for the first time here, and each chapter includes rich examples chosen from the vast number of mythological representations of the period. While focused on mythical subjects, French Romantic artists, Johnson argues, were creating increasingly modern modes of interpreting and meditating on culture and the human condition.
Author: Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992-11-15
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0226064557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of ninety-five articles on Roman and European mythologies, reproduced in full with illustrations, from the two-volume Mythologies.
Author: Bernard Sergent
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguing that homosexuality of the classical era grew out of the prehistorical practice of initiatory homosexuality, Sergent examines initiation rites in a wide variety of ancient cultures, particularly in Crete and among a group of Germanic peoples. In these two cultures, a sexually active adult, the erastes, was the mentor/suitor of an adolescent boy, the eromenos. The boy was ritualistically kidnapped and then lived in the wild for a prescribed period, during which time the erastes taught him to hunt and slept with him. Killing a boar or bear - the final trial - qualified the eromenos as a hunter and signified his ascent to adult status. To illustrate his compelling thesis, Sergent provides an exhaustive survey of the Greek myths, demonstrating that the homosexual relationships of male gods and heroes follow a similar pattern of ritual initiation.
Author: Robert Morrissey
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart 1 of the book explores a fundamental cycle in the history of Charlemagne's representation, beginning shortly after the great emperor's death and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century. Part 2 discusses the remythologizing of Charlemagne in Renaissance and Reformation France through the late nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0521888581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.