In search of the labyrinth : the cultural legacy of Minoan Crete /
In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2020]
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| Series: | New directions in classics.
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| Summary: | In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avantgarde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors and even psychoanalysts, from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium, from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion and other media. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350156708 1350156701 9781784538545 178453854X |