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Book Cupid and Psyche

    Book Details:
  • Author : Regine May
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-02-24
  • ISBN : 3110641585
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Cupid and Psyche written by Regine May and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

Book La favola di Amore e Psiche

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  • Author : Apuleio
  • Publisher : Feltrinelli Editore
  • Release : 2020-01-23T00:00:00+01:00
  • ISBN : 8858838726
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book La favola di Amore e Psiche written by Apuleio and published by Feltrinelli Editore. This book was released on 2020-01-23T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comincia come ogni favola il racconto di Amore e Psiche, con un re e una regina e le loro tre figlie, tutte bellissime. Ma la grazia e lo splendore della più piccola, Psiche, sono talmente grandi da attirare le invidie di Venere. La dea della bellezza decide così di ricorrere all’aiuto del figlio Amore, a cui chiede di colpire Psiche con una delle sue infallibili frecce e di farla innamorare dell’ultimo degli uomini, il più vile e miserabile. Amore accetta, ma quando vede Psiche rimane così incantato dalla sua bellezza da distrarsi e pungersi con la freccia destinata alla ragazza, innamorandosi perdutamente di lei e portandola a vivere nel suo meraviglioso palazzo. A una condizione, però: che la sua amata rinunci a vederlo in viso. Ma una notte, Psiche non sa resistere alla curiosità, subendo così la punizione per la propria disobbedienza... "La favola di Amore e Psiche" è anche di più. è il racconto dell’Anima che dopo errori, sofferenze ed espiazioni ritrova la piena felicità immortale; la storia senza tempo dell’amore fra gli dei e gli uomini; la favola della curiosità e dell’invidia, dell’umano che travalica i limiti della propria mortalità, segnando un passaggio di confine inimmaginabile.

Book Thorvaldsen

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  • Author : Bertel Thorvaldsen
  • Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9788870627084
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Thorvaldsen written by Bertel Thorvaldsen and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Storia Ed Esempi Della Letteratura Italiana Ad Uso Delle Scuole Medie

Download or read book Storia Ed Esempi Della Letteratura Italiana Ad Uso Delle Scuole Medie written by Enrico Carrara and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3385059682
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Programme

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  • Author : Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1168 pages

Download or read book Programme written by Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naaman Zwillingsbr  der

Download or read book Naaman Zwillingsbr der written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology

Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology written by Vanda Zajko and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

Book The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

Download or read book The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass written by Julia Haig Gaisser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young man changed into an ass by magic and his bawdy adventures and narrow escapes before the goddess Isis changes him back again. Its centerpiece is the famous story of Cupid and Psyche. Julia Gaisser follows Apuleius' racy tale from antiquity through the sixteenth century, tracing its journey from roll to codex in fourth-century Rome, into the medieval library of Monte Cassino, into the hands of Italian humanists, into print, and, finally, over the Alps and into translation in Spanish, French, German, and English. She demonstrates that the novel's reception was linked with Apuleius' reputation as a philosopher and the persona he projected in his works. She relates Apuleius and the Golden Ass to a diverse cast of important literary and historical figures--including Augustine, Fulgentius, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bessarion, Boiardo, and Beroaldo. Paying equal attention to the novel's transmission (how it survived) and its reception (how it was interpreted), she places the work in its many different historical contexts, examining its representation in art, literary imitation, allegory, scholarly commentary, and translation. The volume contains several appendixes, including an annotated list of the manuscripts of the Golden Ass. This book is based on the author's Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College in 2000.

Book Apuleius  Cupid and Psyche

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  • Author : Apuleius
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1990-12-06
  • ISBN : 9780521278133
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Apuleius Cupid and Psyche written by Apuleius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, which relates the adventures of a young man and his spiritual fall and redemption. To enrich and deepen his basic plot, the origins of which are obscure, Apuleius has combined poetic sources, Platonic philosophy and popular iconography in an unprecedented tour de force of literary creation. This edition sensitively elucidates the subtle art with which this transformation has been accomplished, and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive handling of his various models and sources and the exuberant and idiosyncratic Latinity with forms the vehicle for it. It places in a fresh light the results of recent work on the ancient Novel and on Apuleius himself, and offers a stimulating, occasionally provocative, reading of his much-discussed text. The Latin is accompanied by a facing English translation, making the edition more accessible to students of comparative literature as well as to classicists.

Book The Patient Griselda Myth

Download or read book The Patient Griselda Myth written by Madeline Rüegg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio’s Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story’s success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.

Book Petrarch and Boccaccio

Download or read book Petrarch and Boccaccio written by Igor Candido and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Buchreihe Mimesis präsentiert unter ihrem neuen Untertitel Romanische Literaturen der Welt ein innovatives und integrales Verständnis der Romania wie der Romanistik aus literaturwissenschaftlicher und kulturtheoretischer Perspektive. Sie trägt der Tatsache Rechnung, dass die faszinierende Entwicklung der romanischen Literaturen und Kulturen in Europa wie außerhalb Europas neue weltweite Dynamiken in Gang gesetzt hat, welche die großen Traditionen der Romania fortschreiben und auf neue Horizonte hin öffnen. In Mimesis kommt ein transareales, die europäische und die außereuropäische Welt romanischer Literaturen und Kulturen zusammendenkendes Verständnis der Romanistik zur Geltung, das über nationale wie disziplinäre Grenzziehungen hinweg die oft übersehenen Wechselwirkungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Traditions- und Entwicklungslinien in Europa und den Amerikas, in Afrika und Asien entfaltet. Im Archipel der Romanistik zeigt Mimesis auf, wie die dargestellte Wirklichkeit in den romanischen Literaturen der Welt die Tür zu einem vielsprachigen Kosmos verschiedenartiger Logiken öffnet.

Book Ancient Narrative Volume 5

Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 5 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Re Wiring the Ancient Novel

Download or read book Re Wiring the Ancient Novel written by Ed Cueva and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

Book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800

Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: