Rachel Cameron And The Myth Of Demeter And Persephone

Author : Anna-Carina Müller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638931471
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Cameron and the Myth of Demeter and Persephone written by Anna-Carina Müller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Canadian women's writing: Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This research paper endeavours to investigate the relation between Rachel Cameron, protagonist of Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God, and the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Therefore, academic works are consulted as well as examples and citations from Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God are picked out, in order to confirm or emphasize certain aspects and ideas. First of all, some general facts of a mother-daughter relationship are given, in order to establish a relationship to the principal topic of this research paper, from Jungian theory to Eleusinian mysteries. To relate the myth of Demeter and Persephone to Rachel Cameron in an as detailed manner as possible to Rachel Cameron, there will, firstly, be an analysis of Persephone's role in A Jest of God, by means of drawing parallels between Persephone and Rachel. Next, the close relation between life, death and fertility is to be investigated, in order to establish another relationship between myth and novel, and, further, it shall be investigated, in how far Demeter is represented in the protagonist Rachel and not only in her mother May. The last point will be the conclusion which summarises the most important findings of this paper and tries to answer the question in how far the myth of Demeter and Persephone is represented in Margaret Laurence's protagonist Rachel Cameron. In her novel A Jest of God, Margaret Laurence obviously establishes a connection to the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. In opposition to the eternal dyad between mother and son, which, according to Adrienne Rich, is always the representation in divinity, sociology, art and psychoanalytic theory, Laurence, in her novel A Jest of God, narrates the sto

Author : Paul Comeau
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644510
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination written by Paul Comeau and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although at times painfully insecure about her creative ability and achievement, Margaret Laurence nevertheless remained fiercely loyal to her artistic vision, an archetypal vision of loss, exile and redemption that sought comprehensive expression in the epic mode that shapes the Bible, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, and ultimately the Manawaka world of Hagar Shipley, Rachel Cameron, Stacey MacAindra, and Morag Gunn. Paul Comeau traces the development of Margaret Laurence's epic voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the epic Manawaka Cycle, a Dantesque journey through an infernal state of self-destructive pride, out of a purgatorial paralysis of self-doubt, and on to a kind of paradisal fulfillment in self-knowledge. Laurence discovered in epic a fitting mode at once to requite her debt to the ancestors and to break free of their influence to portray the world through the sight of her own eyes. In so doing, she became the enduring epic voice of a country and a generation.

Author : Joanna Korba
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
ISBN 13 : 1410871665
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demeter and Persephone written by Joanna Korba and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform this ancient Greek myth about Persephone and her mother.

Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846868337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demeter and Persephone written by Hugh Lupton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the Greek myth of Demeter who rescues her daughter who has been kidnapped by Hades and taken to the Underworld.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Canadian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tamara Agha-Jaffar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786413430
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demeter and Persephone written by Tamara Agha-Jaffar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.

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Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book The Myth of Persephone written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope Farmer
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688200848
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Persephone written by Penelope Farmer and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1973 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

Author : Rachel Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996644709
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Receiver of Many written by Rachel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persephone's life has been one of leisure among the verdant fields: the maiden of flowers, sheltered by her mother, the Harvest Goddess Demeter. Now she is a woman, a goddess in her own right, yearning for freedom- even as the terms of an ancient pact are about to come due. Hades's life has been one of solitude in the somber land of the dead: for millennia he has served as the God of the Underworld, living without attachments, eternally governing the souls of mortals. But he dreams of the young goddess who was promised to be his wife, and knows it is time for his Kingdom to have a Queen. When Hades arrives to claim his betrothed, he finds a young goddess eager to unearth her divine potential- and a powerful mother unwilling to let go. Receiver of Many begins an erotic story of passion and possession, duty and desire, and a struggle that threatens both ancient Greece and the Realm of the Dead itself.

Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467726436
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demeter and Persephone written by Hugh Lupton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persephone, beautiful young daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, is kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter is heartbroken, and even though the crops are dying, she cares for nothing but getting her daughter back.