Описание: Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics and everything in between.
Описание: Explores Abraham Lincoln`s evolution from martyred president to cultural icon and the struggle between the Lincoln of history and his fictional progeny. Lincoln has even been portrayed as the greatest example of goodness humanity has to offer. In short, Lincoln is the essential American myth.
Автор: Diller Название: A Mythic Journey ISBN: 0813152089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813152080 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Although The Tin Drum has often been called one of the great novels of the 20th century, most critics have been baffled in attempting to draw its apparent chaos into a single literary framework.
Автор: Preston Carrie J Название: Modernism`s Mythic Pose ISBN: 0199384584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199384587 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4774.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.
Автор: Lamonaca Maria Название: Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home ISBN: 0814256597 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814256596 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7575.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why did the Victorians hate and fear Roman Catholics so much? This question has long preoccupied literary and cultural scholars alike. Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home by Maria LaMonaca begins with the assumption that anti-Catholicism reveals far more about the Victorians than simple theological disagreements or religious prejudice. An analysis of anti-Catholicism exposes a host of anxieties, contradictions, and controversies dividing Great Britain, the world's most powerful nation by the mid-nineteenth century.
Noting that Catholicism was frequently caricatured by the Victorians as "masked atheism"-that is, heathenism and paganism masquerading as legitimate Christianity-LaMonaca's study suggests that much anti-Catholic rhetoric in Victorian England was fueled by fears of encroaching secularism and anxieties about the disappearance of God in the modern world. For both male and female writers, Catholicism became a synonym for larger, "ungodly" forces threatening traditional ways of life: industrialization, rising standards of living, and religious skepticism.
LaMonaca situates texts by Charlotte Bront , George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Michael Field, and others against a rich background of discourses about the growing visibility of Anglo and Roman Catholicism in Victorian England. In so doing, she demonstrates the influence of both pro- and anti-Catholic sentiment on constructs of Victorian domesticity, and explores how writers appropriated elements of Catholicism to voice anxieties about the growing secularization of the domestic sphere: a bold challenge to sentimental notions of the home as a "sacred" space. Masked Atheism will contribute a fresh perspective to an ongoing conversation about the significance of Catholicism in Victorian literature and culture.
Автор: De Girolami Cheney, Liana Название: Edward burne-jones` mythical paintings ISBN: 1433118769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433118760 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 15375.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book focuses on Sir Edward Burne-Jones` mythical paintings from 1868 to 1886 and analyzes two main concepts: Burne-Jones` assimilation of Neoplatonic ideal beauty as depicted in his solo and narrative paintings, and Burne-Jones` fusion of the classical and emblematic traditions in his imagery.
Автор: Carvalho Sofia Название: Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus ISBN: 3110715457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110715453 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 38219.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetic production in the Greek West. This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry - a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. This comprehensive survey of Stesichorus' treatment of myth discusses his engagement with Homer and Hesiod, his powerful and often moving means of characterisation, his subtle treatment of narrative, and his elaboration of emotional episodes unprecedented in archaic Greek lyric poetry. All Greek is translated, making the book accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the great poets of archaic Greece, whose work had such an impact on the later genre of tragedy.
Автор: Knight Stephen Название: Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography ISBN: 080148992X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801489921 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"The mythical character of Robin Hood has become an icon through his presence in popular culture for the last 600 years.... Knight is extremely knowledgeable about his subject." ? Library Journal
The only figure in the Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has been put to use as a subject of ballads, nationalist rallying point, Disney cartoon fox, greenclad figure of farce, tabloid fodder, and template for petty criminals and progressive political candidates alike.
In this engaging and deeply informed book Stephen Knight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. The best way to get at the essence of the Robin Hood myth, Knight believes, is in terms not of chronological and generic progression but of the purposes served by heroes. Each of the book's four central chapters identifies a particular model of the hero, mythic or biographic, which dominated in certain periods and in certain genres, and explores their interrelations, their implications, and their historical and sociopolitical contexts.
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