Author: Charles Henry Adams Wager
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Category : Trojan War
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Barnicle
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Charles Henry Adams Wager
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Category : Trojan War
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Alan Shepard
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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For medieval and early modern Europeans, contemporary culture was often refracted through the legend of Troy, arguably the most important set of stories outside the Bible for centuries of western European history. These stories were transmitted in dozens of competing versions, and contemporary local events were habitually understood in the context of a pagan legend whose origins were remote and whose mandate was ambiguous. The fifteen essays in this volume offer compelling new treatments of these now-evaporated fantasies of Troy, which were central to the European social imaginary. The essays consider texts and performances of Troy across a wide generic range, from learned court poetry to burlesque, from treatises on linguistic history to public spectacles.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Barnicle
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: George Watson
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1296

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Author: Raoul Lefèvre
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Category : Trojan War
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: Mary Elizabeth Barnicle
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Author: Maciej Paprocki
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110678519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 579

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In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are explained and given traction. Slatkin’s focus was on Achilles’ mother, Thetis: an ostensibly marginal and powerless goddess, Thetis nevertheless drives the plot of the Iliad, being allusively credited with the power to uphold or challenge the rule of Zeus. Now, almost thirty years after Slatkin’s publication, this timely volume re-examines depictions and receptions of this ambiguous goddess, in works ranging from archaic Greek poetry to twenty-first century cinema. Twenty authors build upon Slatkin’s readings to explore Thetis and multiple roles she played in Western literature, art, material culture, religion, and myth. Ever the shapeshifter, Thetis has been and continues to be reconceptualised: supporter or opponent of Zeus’ regime, model bride or unwilling victim of Peleus’ rape, good mother or child-murderess, figure of comedy or monstrous witch. Hers is an enduring power of transformation, resonating within art and literature.

Author: Karl Young
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Category : Cressida (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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