CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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Discuss Mourning Becomes Electra as a tragedy in modern sense. (P.U 2007) In Mourning Becomes Electra‚ O’Neill exemplified what Schopenhauer declared to be the “true sense of tragedy”‚ namely “that it is not his own individual sins the hero atones for‚ but original -sin‚ i.e.‚ the crime of existence itself.” So devoted was he to this .conception‚ that he permitted it to inform the entire trilogy. The pessimism of the Greeks may have been equally black‚ their tragedies just as aware of the crime
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Descent into the Underworld DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD . Narratives the world over tell of descents into the underworld. Many traditions include myths connected with journeys to the "otherworld" undertaken by both human and suprahuman beings. Experiences of such journeys are especially common in the shamanistic traditions‚ but they are also found in association with various ecstatic religious phenomena and various heroic and visionary contexts within a great number
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On "Daddy" Robert Phillips Finally the one way the poet was to achieve relief‚ to become an independent Self‚ was to kill her father’s memory‚ which‚ in "Daddy‚" she does by a metaphorical murder. Making him a Nazi and herself a Jew‚ she dramatizes the war in her soul. It is a terrible poem‚ full of blackness‚ and one of the most nakedly confessional poems ever written. From its opening image onward‚ that of the father as an "old shoe" in which the daughter has lived for thirty years—an explicitly
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays Amir Khan Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a doctoral degree in English Literature Department of English Faculty of Arts University of Ottawa © Amir Khan‚ Ottawa‚ Canada 2013 Library and Archives Canada Bibliothèque et Archives Canada Published Heritage Branch Direction du Patrimoine de l ’édition
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Tourism Tourism: An Introduction Adrian Franklin London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi SAGE Publications Ø Adrian Franklin‚ 2003 First published 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means‚ electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise‚ without permission in writing from the Publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications
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From Aeschylus’ Oresteia to Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra: Text‚ Adaptation and Performance[1] ©Alison Burke‚ The Open University‚ UK Introduction The Royal National Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra at the Royal National Theatre (London 2003–4) downplayed the relationship between O’Neill’s trilogy and Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Rather than following the stage directions of O’Neill‚ which are evocative of classical staging conventions‚ the RNT production
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Medea by Euripides Copyright Notice ©1998-2002; ©2002 by Gale Cengage. Gale is a division of Cengage Learning. Gale and Gale Cengage are trademarks used herein under license. For complete copyright information on these eNotes please visit: http://www.enotes.com/medea/copyright eNotes: Table of Contents 1. Medea: Introduction 2. Medea: Euripides Biography 3. Medea: Summary 4. Medea: Themes 5. Medea: Style 6. Medea: Historical Context 7. Medea: Critical Overview 8. Medea: Character Analysis
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Poetry 1. SIEGFRIED SASSOON (Blighters; They; The Hero; The General) - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work‚ notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography‚ collectively known as the "Sherston Trilogy". Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8th September 1886 at Weirleigh‚ near Paddock Wood in Kent. After Marlborough College
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THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY: CULTURE‚ NATURE‚ AND THE MODERNIST YEARNING FOR AUTHENTICITY Dissertation zur Erlangung der Würde einer Doktorin der Philosophie vorgelegt der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel und der Faculté des Lettres‚ Langues et Sciences Humaines der Universität Orléans von Ann-Catherine Nabholz von Zürich Basel 2007 i Genehmigt von der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultät der Universität Basel‚ auf Antrag von Prof. Dr. Hartwig Isernhagen (Universität Basel)
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