[ilds] Sale Book: Minos and the Moderns

[Marc Piel]

Does that mean that US criticism is.....????

Le 22/06/11 18:23, Bruce Redwine a écrit :
> Not as far as establishment criticism in the 
> U.S. is concerned.
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Marc Piel 
> <marc at marcpiel.fr <mailto:marc at marcpiel.fr>> wrote:
>
>> 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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