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Record Nr.

UNISA996218130503316

Autore

Ziolkowski Theodore

Titolo

Minos and the moderns [[electronic resource] ] : Cretan myth in twentieth-century literature and art / / Theodore Ziolkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-85206-6

9786611852061

0-19-971428-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Disciplina

809/.9337

Soggetti

Mythology in literature

Art and mythology

Crete (Greece) In literature

Crete (Greece) In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the modernization of myth -- Europa and the bull : sex, society, and politics -- The minotaur : the beast within and the threat outside -- The other Cretans : alienation, invention, liberation -- Conclusion : the modernity of myth.

Sommario/riassunto

This work considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early 20th-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth and Daedelus and Icarus.