Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Bacchantes
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Plays of Euripides: Andromache. Electra. The Bacchantes. Hecuba. Heracles mad. The Phoenician maidens. Orestes. Iphigenia among the Tauri. Iphigenia at Aulis. The Cyclops
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Bacchante and Infant Faun
Author: Thayer Tolles
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} In just three years, between 1893 and 1896, Frederick William MacMonnies’s Bacchante and Infant Faun evolved from a clay sketch in the artist’s Paris studio to the most controversial sculpture in the United States. Perceptions of the sculpture, which depicts an over life-size dancing woman who gleefully holds an infant in one arm and grapes aloft in the other, still range from provocative to innocuous. This Bulletin provides a close examination of Bacchante and Infant Faun, a work most frequently associated with the scandal that led to its acquisition: the public uproar over the impropriety of the figure’s nudity and her apparent inebriation spurred its original owner, architect Charles McKim, to withdraw it as a gift to the Boston Public Library and give it to The Met instead. While earlier studies focused almost exclusively on the controversy, this Bulletin takes a fresh look at one of the icons of the American Wing, from its origins in the artist's Beaux-Arts training to its place in the rich tradition of the bacchante as a subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} In just three years, between 1893 and 1896, Frederick William MacMonnies’s Bacchante and Infant Faun evolved from a clay sketch in the artist’s Paris studio to the most controversial sculpture in the United States. Perceptions of the sculpture, which depicts an over life-size dancing woman who gleefully holds an infant in one arm and grapes aloft in the other, still range from provocative to innocuous. This Bulletin provides a close examination of Bacchante and Infant Faun, a work most frequently associated with the scandal that led to its acquisition: the public uproar over the impropriety of the figure’s nudity and her apparent inebriation spurred its original owner, architect Charles McKim, to withdraw it as a gift to the Boston Public Library and give it to The Met instead. While earlier studies focused almost exclusively on the controversy, this Bulletin takes a fresh look at one of the icons of the American Wing, from its origins in the artist's Beaux-Arts training to its place in the rich tradition of the bacchante as a subject of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art.
A History of Women in the West
Author: Georges Duby
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674403697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674403697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.
Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka
Author: Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Soyinka's representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer's idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist's intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations - the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka's treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka's vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of 'Africanness', rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka's work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Soyinka's representation of postcolonial African identity is re-examined in the light of his major plays, novels and poetry to show how this writer's idiom of cultural authenticity both embraces hybridity and defines itself as specific and particular. For Soyinka, such authenticity involves recovering tradition and inserting it in postcolonial modernity to facilitate transformative moral and political justice. The past can be both our enabling future and our nemesis. In a distinctive approach grounded in cultural studies, Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka locates the artist's intellectual and political concerns within the broader field of postcolonial cultural theory, arguing that, although ostensibly distant from mainstream theory, Soyinka focuses on fundamental questions concerning international culture and political identity formations - the relationship between myth and history / tradition and modernity, and the unresolved tension between power as a force for good or evil. Soyinka's treatment of the relationship between individual selfhood and the various framing social and collective identities, so the book argues, is yet another aspect linking his work to the broader intellectual currents of today. Thus, Soyinka's vision is seen as central to contemporary efforts to grasp the nature of modernity. His works conceptualize identity in ways that promote and modify national perceptions of 'Africanness', rescuing them from the colonial and neocolonial logic of cultural denigration in a manner that fully acknowledges the cosmopolitan and global contexts of African postcolonial formation. Overall, what emerges from the present study is the conviction that, in Soyinka's work, it is the capacity to assume personal and collective agency and the particular choices made by particular subjects at given historical moments that determine the trajectory of change and ultimately the nature of postcolonial existence itself. Postcolonial Identity in Wole Soyinka is a major and imaginative contribution to the study of Wole Soyinka, African literature, and postcolonial cultural theory and one in which writing and creativity stand in fruitful symbiosis with the critical sense. It should appeal to Soyinka scholars, to students of African literature, and to anyone interested in postcolonial and cultural theory.
The Centaur and the Bacchante
Author: Maurice de Guérin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bookbinding
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Comedies
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Origin of all Religious Worship
Author: Charles François Dupuis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132665733X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is a re-publication of the work of Charles-Francois Dupuis (1742 - 1809) who wrote this book in 1795 (French). It was translated into English in 1872. Dupuis argued that Christianity was an amalgamation of various ancient mythologies and that Jesus was a mythical character. He argued also that Jewish and Christian scriptures could be interpreted according to the solar pattern, e.g. the Fall of Man in Genesis being an allegory of the hardship caused by winter, and the resurrection of Jesus an allegory for the growth of the sun's strength in the sign of Aries at the spring equinox. He relates the various poems of Hercules and Bacchus to the position of the sun in the zodiac. Purpose od the republication is to contribute to the spiritual enlightenment of man and to keep its information alive."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132665733X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is a re-publication of the work of Charles-Francois Dupuis (1742 - 1809) who wrote this book in 1795 (French). It was translated into English in 1872. Dupuis argued that Christianity was an amalgamation of various ancient mythologies and that Jesus was a mythical character. He argued also that Jewish and Christian scriptures could be interpreted according to the solar pattern, e.g. the Fall of Man in Genesis being an allegory of the hardship caused by winter, and the resurrection of Jesus an allegory for the growth of the sun's strength in the sign of Aries at the spring equinox. He relates the various poems of Hercules and Bacchus to the position of the sun in the zodiac. Purpose od the republication is to contribute to the spiritual enlightenment of man and to keep its information alive."
The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante"
Author: Albert Victor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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The Dance in Education
Author: Agnes Lewis Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description