Ariadne's LivesBy taking an unconventional view of the well-known myth of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur on Crete, Ariadne's Lives breaks new ground and will cause some controversy. None of the much-heralded myth study coming out of French and American structuralism and psychoanalysis has focused attention on Ariadne's story. Indeed, relatively little work has been done on the Cretan myth cycle as a whole, a mixture of heroic Greek legend and savage, pre-Greek elements generally considered to be antithetical to evolved literary languages. As a result, although Ariadne has been extremely important in Western art from the time of ancient Greece through the nineteenth century, she is rarely included in studies of Greek myth. Like many other Eastern goddesses, Ariadne fell victim to the collision between pre-Greek and Greek cultures and virtually disappeared. |
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Nina daVinci Nichols. 4 Exorcism and Maggie Tulliver As a perspective on human origins and behavior , naturalism generated a mythology undermining romance and its tendency to idealize the human potentiality for perfection . ' According ...
Nina daVinci Nichols. 4 Exorcism and Maggie Tulliver As a perspective on human origins and behavior , naturalism generated a mythology undermining romance and its tendency to idealize the human potentiality for perfection . ' According ...
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... human nature pulses with vestigial forces originating in Darwin's primal horde , later mythologized by Freud as racial memory sur- viving in the structure of the human mind . " Much of this picture of Hardy's psychologized world has ...
... human nature pulses with vestigial forces originating in Darwin's primal horde , later mythologized by Freud as racial memory sur- viving in the structure of the human mind . " Much of this picture of Hardy's psychologized world has ...
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... human evokes Greek horror of amorphousness , which must be " killed . " 10 Otherwise , these oppositions on the level of story probably appeared to nineteenth - century eyes to advance the cycle's grand theme of human evolution , from a ...
... human evokes Greek horror of amorphousness , which must be " killed . " 10 Otherwise , these oppositions on the level of story probably appeared to nineteenth - century eyes to advance the cycle's grand theme of human evolution , from a ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Plain Janes Revolution | 26 |
Hawthorne the Romancer | 39 |
Copyright | |
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Comparative Criticism: Volume 18, Spaces: Cities, Gardens and Wildernesses E. S. Shaffer Limited preview - 1996 |