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  title info:
    title: Minos and the Moderns
    sub title: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
  name:
    name part: Ziolkowski, Theodore.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Art
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Oxford Scholarship Online
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
  abstract: Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedelus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first book of its kind to treat the role of the Cretan myths in the modern imagination. Beginning with the resurgence of Crete in the modern consciousness in 1900 following the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how the tale of Europain poetry, drama, and art, but also in cartoons, advertising, and currency was initially seized upon as a story of sexual awakening, then as a vehicle for social and political satire, and finally as a symbol of European unity. In contast, the minotaur provided artists ranging from Picasso to Durrenmatt with an image of the artists sense of alienation, while the labyrinth suggested to many writers the threatening sociopolitical world of the twentieth century. Ziolkowski also considers the roles of such modern figures as Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud; of travelers to Greece and Crete from Isadora Duncan to Henry Miller; and of the theorists and writers, including T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann, who hailed the use of myth in modern literature. Minos and the Moderns concludes with a summary of the manners in which the economic, aesthetic, psychological, and anthropological revisions enabled precisely these myths to be taken up as a mirror of modern consciousness. The book will appeal to students and scholars across several disciplines, especially in Classics and Literary Studies.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    topic: Mythology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Art and mythology
  subject:
    geographic: Crete (Greece)
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    geographic: Crete (Greece)
    topic: In art
  subject:
    topic: Mythologie dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Art et mythologie
  subject:
    geographic: Crète (Grèce)
    topic: Dans la littérature
  subject:
    geographic: Crète (Grèce)
    topic: Dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL
    topic: Special Interest
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Art and mythology
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Mythology in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  classification: PN56
  classification: 809.9337
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    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 121012
    record change date: 20260318191329.5
    record identifier: in00005708988
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng