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Between, 2012 The study is about the only greek symposium scene in the Erica Jong’s novel Sappho’s Leap. We intend to explore the relationship between linguistic rendering of greek fragments by the author and the original texts.
Gloria Larini
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Spartans in the ancient Greek novels
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2023 AbstractCharacters in the Greek novels comprise a dizzying array of identities, but one group of people who have received barely any attention are Spartans. They appear only in Chariton of Aphrodisias and Xenophon of Ephesus, where analysis of their presence sheds crucial light on the novels’ literary and sociocultural agendas.
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A new “Romen” Empire : Toni Morrison's love and the classics [PDF]
, 2007 An important but little-studied feature of Toni Morrison's novels is their ambivalent relationship with classical tradition. Morrison was a classics minor while at Howard University, and her deployment of the cultural practices of ancient Greece and Rome
Roynon, Tessa Kate
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Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe [PDF]
, 2017 : In Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, springs are a central motif of the Prologue and the novel as a whole. This motif counters male domination, since it is associated with Chloe, while the flowers watered by springs in this novel are identified with Daphnis ...
Janelle Peters
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«The Wicked Witch of the East»: Baba Yaga в современном американском фэнтези [PDF]
International Journal of Slavic Studies, 2021 The paper observes the Slavic-inspired young adult fiction and fantasy that is a recent and unexplored phenomenon in the U.S. literature. The author focuses on Baba Yaga, a powerful witch and boogeyman from the Slavic folklore, and studies the sources ...
Наталия Криницкая
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The Macedonian Officer, a Novel from Modern Life [PDF]
Studia LitterarumThe article examines Andrei Platonov’s unfinished novel The Macedonian Officer. A Novel from Ancient Times, which launches Platonov’s so-called eastern cycle.
Natalya I. Duzhina
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Looks of Love and Loathing:Cultural Models of Vision and Emotion in Ancient Greek Culture [PDF]
, 2011 International audienceThis paper considers the intersection of cultural models of emotion, specifically love and envy, with folk and scientific models of vision in Greek antiquity.
Cairns, Douglas
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Voyages utopiques et SF dans deux romans grecs antiques [PDF]
Caietele EchinoxThe Renaissance genre of utopia has its forerunners in the extraordinary voyages of the Roman Empire’s literature. Two of these adventure novels, Wonders beyond Thulé by Antonius Diogenes and True Histories by Lucian, from the 2nd century CE, stage ...
Corin Braga
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Medea in the past and in the present: (Re)constructing the identity of a woman and a foreigner in the novel Medea by Christa Wolf [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 One of the most shocking, the most difficult to understand and at the same time the most inspiring tragedy from the Greek antiquity is Euripeides' Medea.
Stevanović Lada
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Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope: reflections, applications, perspectives [PDF]
, 2012 This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been ...
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