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Author | : Bill Gladhill |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020-04-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487532652 |
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Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil’s underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works. These allusions operate on many levels, from the literary and political to the religious and spiritual. Aeneid 6 reshaped prior philosophical, religious, and poetic traditions of underworld descents, while offering a universalizing account of the spiritual that could accommodate prior as well as emerging religious and philosophical systems. Vergil’s underworld became an archetype, a model flexible enough to be employed across genres, and periods, and among differing cultural and religious contexts. The essays in this volume speak to Vergil’s incorporation of and influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized, tracing the impact of Vergil’s underworld on authors such as Ovid, Seneca, Statius, Augustine, and Shelley, from Pagan and Christian traditions through Romantic and Spiritualist readings. Walking through Elysium asserts the deep and lasting influence of Vergil’s underworld from the moment of its publication to the present day.
Author | : Bill Gladhill |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487505779 |
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Walking through Elysium traces Vergil's influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.
Author | : Terence S McNamara |
Publisher | : Australian Self Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2023-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1923087754 |
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Terence S. McNamara’s ‘The Elysium Conundrum’ is a thrilling exploration of history, science, and human potential. With a broad education and a knack for storytelling, McNamara crafts a narrative that seamlessly bridges the gap between a tumultuous past and an astonishing future. In 1936, a mysterious figure emerges, altering the course of Nazi Germany and setting in motion events that resonate in a 2065 murder investigation. The New Science, with its time-rippling power, shapes a new destiny for humanity. By 2065, mankind has harnessed the gnome’s manipulation, forever transforming personal and military landscapes. Dive into this mind-expanding epic where boundless souls mirror an infinite universe, leaving an indelible mark on an ambiguous past
Author | : Craig M. Workman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2010 |
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ISBN | : |
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A failed college professor--Sam Kesterson--buries his wife and leaves his old life behind in search of the open road. He meets a man named Edgar along the way and--after his friend dies--walks cross-country to fulfill a promise he made to him. Once he reaches his destination, Sam interacts with the few remaining residents of Elysium Heights, a run-down tenement in a part of the city soon slated for demolition. He becomes friends with the residents, and ultimately fulfills his promise by saving Edgar's nephew and sacrificing himself in the process.
Author | : Dani Hoots |
Publisher | : FoxTales Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The gates to Tartarus have been opened and Kronos is now destroying the world. The only way to stop him is to find the legendary Scythe of Kronos. As Chrys is searching for the weapon, Huntley must convince Hephaestus to create a new lock for Tartarus. Hephaestus, however, holds some grudges against the gods, and the goddess who has the Scythe isn't letting go of her treasures. On top of all this, Aether has made his move to try and become King of the Gods. Will Chrys and friends be able to stop Kronos and Aether? Or will the worlds be forever changed? This is the last book in the Queen of the Underworld duology.
Author | : N.G. Meyers |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2018-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1532027842 |
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Author | : Mark William Padilla |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2024-03-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1666915920 |
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has dazzled and challenged audiences with its unique aesthetic design and startling plot devices since its release in 1958. In Classical Vertigo: Mythic Shapes and Contemporary Influences in Hitchcock’s Film, Mark William Padilla analyzes antecedents including: (1) the film’s source novel, D’entre les morts (Among the Dead), (2) the earlier symbolist novel, Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-morte, and (3) the first-draft screenplay of Maxwell Anderson, a prominent Broadway dramatist and Hollywood scenarist from the 1920s to the 1950s. The presence of Vertigo amid these texts reveals and clarifies how themes from Greco-Roman antiquity emerge in Hitchcock’s project. Padilla analyzes narrative figures such as Prometheus and Pandora, Persephone and Hades, and Pygmalion and Galatea, as well as themes like the dark plots of Greek tragedy, to reveal how Hitchcock used allusive form to construct an emotionally powerful experience with an often-minimalist script. This analysis demonstrates that Vertigo is a multifaceted work of intertextuality with artistic and cultural roots extending into antiquity itself.
Author | : Celia Campbell |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299348741 |
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The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia M. Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach. Reasserting the significance of the ancient hymnic tradition, she argues that the first pentad of Ovid's Metamorphoses draws a programmatic strain of influence from hymns to the gods, in particular conversation--and competition--with the work of the Alexandrian poet Callimachus, a favored source of inspiration to Augustan writers. She suggests that Ovid read Callimachus' six hymns as a self-conscious set--and reading the first five books of the Metamorphoses through Callimachus' hymnic collection allows us to pierce the occasionally opaque and seemingly idiosyncratic mythology Ovid constructs. Through careful, innovative close readings, Campbell illustrates that Callimachus and the hymnic tradition provide a kind of interpretative key to unlocking the dynamic landscape of divine power in Ovid's poetic cosmos.
Author | : Edward Cummings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Erik Trump |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1666908215 |
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The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.