Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Venus and Adonis
Author: William ShakespeareVenus and Adonis
Author: Philip C. KolinPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 081532149X
Category : Adonis (Greek deity) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Critical essays on Shakespeare's epic poem, "Venus and Adonis".
The Poems
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294119
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are now generally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding The Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, and A Lover's Complaint. The introduction to the two long narrative poems examines their place within the classical and Renaissance European traditions, an issue which also applies to The Phoenix and the Turtle. The Passionate Pilgrim is a miscellany of twenty sonnets and lyrics, containing only five poems which are certain to be Shakespeare's. John Roe analyses the conditions in which the collection was produced, and weighs the evidence for and against Shakespeare's authorship of A Lover's Complaint and the much-debated question of its genre. He demonstrates how in his management of formal tropes Shakespeare, like the best Elizabethans, fashions a living language out of handbook oratory.
Reading the Allegorical Intertext
Author: Judith H. AndersonPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823228495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title signals the variousness of an intertext extending from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Milton and the breadth of allegory itself. Literary allegory, in Anderson’s view, is at once a mimetic form and a psychic one—a process thinking that combines mind with matter, emblem with narrative, abstraction with history. Anderson’s first section focuses on relations between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. The second centers on agency and cultural influence in a variety of Spenserian and medieval texts. Allegorical form, a recurrent concern throughout, becomes the pressing issue of section three. This section treats plays and poems of Shakespeare and Milton and includes two intertextually relevant essays on Spenser. How Paradise Lost or Shakespeare’s plays participate in allegorical form is controversial. Spenser’s experiments with allegory revise its form, and this intervention is largely what Shakespeare and Milton find in his poetry and develop. Anderson’s book, the result of decades of teaching and writing about allegory, especially Spenserian allegory, will reorient thinking about fundamental critical issues and the landmark texts in which they play themselves out.
Venus Does Adonis While Apollo Shags a Tree
Author: Tim DesmondesPublisher: The Nazca Plains Corporation
ISBN: 1934625671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The horny gods have been emasculated and mercilessly spayed for millennia by the prudish. But Tim Desmondes shows them with all their sexual apparatus, their lust, their promiscuity and their humour. The lively Olympians show their true colours; Apollo will shag anything, including trees, and Jupiter turns himself into a bull for those mortal girls for whom size really matters.
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals
Author: Marlene DumasPublisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 194170199X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The latest from the renowned painter—Marlene Dumas’s new works respond more than ever to the uncertainty and sensuality of the painting process itself. Allowing the structure of the canvases and the materiality of the paint greater freedom to inform the development of her compositions, the artist has likened the creation of these works to the act of falling in love: an unpredictable and open-ended process that is as filled with awkwardness and anxiety as it is with bliss and discovery. Myths & Mortals documents a selection of new paintings—debuted in the spring of 2018 at David Zwirner, New York—ranging from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features. Several nearly ten-foot-tall paintings focus on individual figures, including a number of male and female nudes and a seemingly solemn bride, whose expression is obscured behind a floor-length veil. Like the Greek gods and goddesses, the figures in these paintings are at once larger than life and overwhelmingly human. The smaller-scale paintings—referred to by the artist as “erotic landscapes”—present a variety of fragmentary images: eyes, lips, nipples, or lovers locked in a kiss. Evident across all of these works is the artist’s uniquely sensitive treatment of the human form and her constantly evolving experimentation with color and texture. Alongside these new paintings, Dumas presents an expansive series of thirty-two works on paper originally created for a Dutch translation of William Shakespeare’s narrative poem Venus & Adonis (1593) by Hafid Bouazza (2016). Myths & Mortals is accompanied by new scholarship on the artist by Claire Messud and a text by Dumas herself.
Venus & Adonis
Author: William ShakespeareVenus and Adonis
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
'Venus and Adonis' is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare. It is probably his first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times erotic, comic and tragic. It contains discourses on the nature of love, and observations of nature.
Shakespeares Venus and Adonis
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adonis (Greek deity) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Author: Christopher Marlowe