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Abstract Recent scholarship on poetic materiality has found itself caught between celebration of the way rhythm might link language and the body, on the one hand, and critiques of the way such a link can lead and has led to various types of essentialism, on the other.
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
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Poet as poem: The intermedial staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love
Abstract Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) offers the audience a dream‐like voyage through the post‐mortem reminiscences of the central character, A. E. Housman. The attempt to resurrect Housman, as the historical figure in real life, is suspended by the intertextual incorporation of Housman's poems, the both fictive and enigmatically private
Huayu Yang, Bowen Wang
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Tucker's Choephori of Aeschylus - Tucker's Choephori of Aeschylus [PDF]
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Refracted Truth and Multivalent Meaning in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
As the characters of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon grapple with the violence drowning the house of Atreus, the audience and reader encounter a tangle of contradictory interpretations. The playwright supplies no map for navigating these tortured paths.
Doug Clapp
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Die Tragödie des Entscheidens / The Tragedy of Making Decisions [PDF]
Eine Anmerkung zu den “Eumeniden” des Aischylos. Die “Orestie” des Aischylos endet mit der Einsetzung des Areopags, des Gerichtshofes, der den Menschen zur Selbstverantwortung verhilft und aus den Rachegöttinnen “Wohlgesinnte”, Eumeniden, werden lässt.
Marie Theres Fögen
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Creativity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy: The Politics of Demiourgein
ABSTRACT Where does creativity come from and what is its purpose? The paper revisits these ever‐turning questions to correct the prevalent but, arguably, inaccurate historical interpretation of creativity as a concept that emerged in modernity. First, I substantiate that a close study of the ancient Greek texts suggests that although creativity seems ...
Brokalaki Zafeirenia
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Pelopidarum secunda: a ‘site of memory’ in the history of Elizabethan revenge tragedy
Abstract Pelopidarum secunda is an understudied anonymous English adaptation of Seneca's Agamemnon and Sophocles' Electra. The play is preserved only in manuscript and was probably performed at Winchester College around 1590. Through a combination of Marvin Carlson's notions of ‘ghosting’ and of the ‘site of memory’ with a neo‐historicist approach, the
Angelica Vedelago
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Abstract In this article, I explore the relationships between how humans have evolved to interact with the material world and how we interact with our information worlds. I argue that shaping processes, exemplified by how early humans created stone tools, are core ways to interact with the world that are appropriated to interact with information to ...
Ian Ruthven
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