VergilCraig Kallendorf The essays chosen for this volume are intended to reflect the best recent work on Vergilian influences along with the best of the "classic" studies in this field. -- Introduction. |
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... Death ( presumably Eurydice's rejected lover ) pursues her . Orfeu tries unsuccessfully to fight Death , is defeated , and loses Eurydice . She meanwhile has fled to the trolley car barn at the edge of the city ( the urban version of ...
... Death ( presumably Eurydice's rejected lover ) pursues her . Orfeu tries unsuccessfully to fight Death , is defeated , and loses Eurydice . She meanwhile has fled to the trolley car barn at the edge of the city ( the urban version of ...
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... Death , the lonely journey through the empty public buildings ( perhaps the film's most effective scene , juxtaposing myth and the impersonality of death in a contemporary metropolis ) , and the symmetry between the séance of magical ...
... Death , the lonely journey through the empty public buildings ( perhaps the film's most effective scene , juxtaposing myth and the impersonality of death in a contemporary metropolis ) , and the symmetry between the séance of magical ...
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... death . Like other recent writers , Rukeyser conflates Orpheus with Dionysus and the Orphic myth of the god's dismemberment and renewal . Orpheus is a god whose passion and return to wholeness sig- nify a victory over chaos . His death ...
... death . Like other recent writers , Rukeyser conflates Orpheus with Dionysus and the Orphic myth of the god's dismemberment and renewal . Orpheus is a god whose passion and return to wholeness sig- nify a victory over chaos . His death ...
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Tennyson and Virgil W P Mustard | 54 |
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