Pictors Metamorphoses

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466835141
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictor's Metamorphoses written by Hermann Hesse and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is the centerpiece of this anthology of Hesse's luminous short fiction. Based on The Arabian Nights and the work of the Brothers Grimm, the nineteen stories collected here represent a half century of Hesse's short writings. They display the full range of Hesse's lifetime fascination with fantasy--as dream, fairy tale, satire, or allegory.

Author : David Gallagher
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027088
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis written by David Gallagher and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid's Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an 'ascending evolutionary scale' (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid's Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society's moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse's Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr's Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118451341
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ovid written by Peter E. Knox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Camden House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 1640140778
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Poets in Modern Guise written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 2020 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and explores Roman modes of poetry as received by twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglo-American, German, and French poets.

Author : John F. Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118876121
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid written by John F. Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid’s poetry into modern times.

Author : G. Semenza
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0080933211
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry. Personal Recollections. IV written by G. Semenza and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors invited selected authors who had participated in or observed developments in biochemistry and molecular biology, particularly in the second half of this century, to record their personal recollections of the times and circumstances in which they worked. Having been given free reign, both content and style of the contruibutions reflect the flavour of the personality of the author. The book reflects the explosive development of biochemistry and molecular biology and related sciences that had led to the almost unique situation of these fields coming of age at a time when their founding fathers, or their scientific children, were alive and well. The contributions in this volume encompass a wide variety of experiences in many different countries and in very different fields of biochemistry.

Author : Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus" written by Alexander Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus": Biography written by Alexander Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Gilchrist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of William Blake, "pictor Ignotus", with Selections from His Poems and Other Writings written by Alexander Gilchrist and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Whitlark
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838633052
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illuminated Fantasy written by James Whitlark and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central and later decades of the twentieth century have not only been marked by the popularity of fantasy in general but of fantastic graphics in particular. As a literature relatively new to academic consideration, however, fantasy lacks a universally accepted definition, and no previous author has adequately studied the genral differences between the literalness of realistic illustration and the paradoxes of fantastic illumination. In "Illuminated Fantasy," James Whitlark presents a detailed analysis of the significance of picture/text discrepancy - its history, its various forms, and its psychological complexities.