Author: Donald G. Daviau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469657363
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Author: Richard Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Jennifer Saint
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250773571
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not a threat but an escape. Defying the gods, betraying her family and country, and risking everything for love, Ariadne helps Theseus kill the Minotaur. But will Ariadne’s decision ensure her happy ending? And what of Phaedra, the beloved younger sister she leaves behind? Hypnotic, propulsive, and utterly transporting, Jennifer Saint's Ariadne forges a new epic, one that puts the forgotten women of Greek mythology back at the heart of the story, as they strive for a better world.

Author: Frank Laurence Lucas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107677521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Originally published in 1932, this volume contains F. L. Lucas' epic poem Ariadne, which retells the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Author: Joyce Hannam
Publisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194248884
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A retelling of the classical Greek myth of Theseus and Ariadne, in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities and exercises to enhance reading comprehension skills and improve vocabulary.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 549

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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and new questions about the poet and his works ‒ the grand mythological epic Dionysiaca and the hexameter Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel.

Author: Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691027623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face" after Elektra; Derrick Puffett reinforces the argument for Strauss's artistic consistency by tracing in the tone poems and operas the phenomenon of pitch specificity; James Hepokoski establishes Strauss as an early modernist in an examination of Macbeth; Michael Steinberg probes the composer's political sensibility as expressed in the 1930s through his music and use of such texts as Friedenstag and Daphne; Bryan Gilliam discusses the genesis of both the text and the music in the final scene of Daphne; Timothy Jackson in his thorough source study argues for a new addition to the so-called Four Last Songs. Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. The memoirs range from early biographical sketches to Rudolf Hartmann's moving account of his last visit with Strauss shortly before the composer's death. Critical reviews include recently translated essays by Theodor Adorno, Guido Adler, Paul Bekker, and Julius Korngold [Publisher description].

Author: Rhys Carpenter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Doris Orgel
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670851584
Category : Ariadne (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Fourteen-year-old Ariadne, princess of Crete, helps her beloved Theseus escape death in the labyrinth of the monstrous Minotaur.

Author: Bernard MacLaverty
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409017184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a more innocent time, when the Loyalists Lambeg drums sounded mysterious and exciting; she remembers her shattered relationship with the drunken, violent Dave, she remembers the child she had with him, waiting back in Glasgow. This is a novel, about coming to terms with the past and the healing power of music, GRACE NOTES is a master story-teller`s triumphant return to the long form: a powerful lyrical novel of great distinction.