[ilds] Sale Book: Minos and the Moderns

[Marc Piel]

Surely a "well-known and prominent critic of 
comparative literature" who ignores LD shows 
himself up very badly!!!
B.R.
Marc

Le 22/06/11 16:37, Bruce Redwine a écrit :
> Merrianne,
>
> Thanks for the tip.  Theodore Ziolkowski is a 
> well-known and prominent critic of comparative 
> literature.  The fact he overlooks (or ignores) 
> Durrell, as you point out, is very telling. /The 
> Dark Labyrinth/ should have been included in his 
> exposition.
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:06 AM, timlot at comcast.net 
> <mailto:timlot at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> The following book currently on sale for $14.98 
>> through the David Brown Book Co. 
>> @www.oxbowbooks.com 
>> <http://www.oxbowbooks.com>may be of interest 
>> to some of you. A quick search in the book 
>> (onamazon.com <http://amazon.com>'s website) 
>> indicates no "hits" for Durrell, but numerous 
>> references to labyrinth.
>> Merrianne Timko
>> ***
>>
>>
>>       Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in
>>       Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
>>
>>
>>         by Theodore Ziolkowski
>>
>> /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 
>> Daedalus 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 Europa-in 
>> 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 
>> artist's 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 all readers interested 
>> in the classical tradition and its continuing 
>> relevance and especially to scholars of 
>> Classics and modern literatures./192p (Oxford 
>> UP 2008)/
>>
>
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