| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 409 pages) |
| Series |
Brill's companion to classical reception ; volume 19
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Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 19.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright page / Brian Murdoch -- Dedication / Brian Murdoch -- Epigraph / Brian Murdoch -- Preface / BM -- Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions / Brian Murdoch -- The Classical World / Brian Murdoch -- Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages / Brian Murdoch -- Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After / Brian Murdoch -- Ballads, Folk and Literary / Brian Murdoch -- Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric / Brian Murdoch -- The Challenge of Drama / Brian Murdoch -- The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After / Brian Murdoch -- Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques / Brian Murdoch -- Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays / Brian Murdoch -- Modern Experiments / Brian Murdoch -- Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? / Brian Murdoch -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Brian Murdoch -- Index / Brian Murdoch. |
| Summary |
This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hero (Greek mythological character)
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Leander (Greek mythological character)
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Hero (Greek mythological character) -- In literature.
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Leander (Greek mythological character) -- In literature.
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Hero (Greek mythological character) |
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Leander (Greek mythological character) |
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European literature -- Greek influences.
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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European literature |
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European literature -- Greek influences |
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Literature |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murdoch, Brian, 1944- The reception of the legend of Hero and Leander Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. 9789004400931 (hardback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2019014058 |
| ISBN |
9789004400948 (electronic book) |
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900440094X (electronic book) |
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9789004400931 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9004400931 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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