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The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Coetzee and Rilke [PDF]
, 2016 J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg (1994) is a text about a father (Dostoevsky) mourning the death of his son. I am interested in the presence and meaning of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the novel, compared to the meaning of the myth in R. M.
Veres, Ottilia
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The creative work of large ensembles [PDF]
, 2017 Preparing large ensembles for performance involves musical, social, logistical and financial challenges of a kind seldom encountered in other forms of collective music-making.
Cottrell, S.J.
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Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2018 Numerous existing works have shown that, key to the efficiency of distributed machine learning (ML) is proper system and algorithm co-design: system design should be tailored to the unique mathematical properties of ML algorithms, and algorithms can be re-designed to better exploit the system architecture.
Pengtao Xie +4 more
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Ancient Myth in Brazilian Cinematography: Black Orpheus
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2020 The paper deals with two film adaptations of the myth of Orpheus that were made in Brazil in 1959 and 1999. In view of the fact that in both films Orpheus appears as Afro-Brazilian, these two versions of the myth may be related to Sartre’s concept of ...
Lada Stevanović
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Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the importance of the Orpheus myth during the English Renaissance. The Orpheus myth was one of the most common mythic intertexts of the period due to the fact that we could see the very story of Orpheus as being imbedded within the ...
Beattie, Laura I. H.
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'Gnosticism' in fourth century Britain: the Frampton mosaics reconsidered [PDF]
, 2003 Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the significance of the mosaic designs employed in Roman houses. Studies have concentrated on establishing the mythological sources of the images chosen, and on describing the social and architectural contexts
Perring, D
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Body, Sensuousness, Eros and the New Aesthetic Order from Schiller to Rushdie [PDF]
, 2013 In the present article, I look into the culture-building power of Eros from Schiller’s ideas of “the aesthetic state of mind” in Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, through the Pre-Raphaelites’ eroticism to the nineteenthcentury fin de siècle ...
Bădulescu, Dana
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RiCognizioni, 2019 “Fishes leapt out from the blue water because of his sweet music”. Music, poetry and soul in Orpheus’ myth. Through the analysis of different sources, this paper highlights the main events in Orpheus’ myth: the heroes’ birth, the power of his singing on ...
Matteo Stefani
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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