The Garden Of Adonis

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238332
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Adonis written by Marcel Detienne and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. Using the analytic tools of structuralism, Detienne shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity--whose physical ineptitude led to his death in a boar hunt, after which his body was found in a lettuce patch. Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage. Detienne considers the short-lived gardens that Athenian women planted in mockery for Adonis's festival, and explores the function of such vegetal matter as spices, mint, myrrh, cereal, and wet plants in religious practice and in a wide selection of myths. His inquiry exposes, among many things, attitudes toward sexual activities ranging from "perverse" acts to marital relations.

Author : Caroline Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Adonis written by Caroline Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The gardens of Adonis written by Marcel Detienne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299308200
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenian Adonia in Context written by Laurialan Reitzammer and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus and Adonis written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Spenser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faerie queene. book III written by Edmund Spenser and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Adonis written by Marcel Detienne and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith H. Anderson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823228495
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Allegorical Intertext written by Judith H. Anderson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title signals the variousness of an intertext extending from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Milton and the breadth of allegory itself. Literary allegory, in Anderson’s view, is at once a mimetic form and a psychic one—a process thinking that combines mind with matter, emblem with narrative, abstraction with history. Anderson’s first section focuses on relations between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. The second centers on agency and cultural influence in a variety of Spenserian and medieval texts. Allegorical form, a recurrent concern throughout, becomes the pressing issue of section three. This section treats plays and poems of Shakespeare and Milton and includes two intertextually relevant essays on Spenser. How Paradise Lost or Shakespeare’s plays participate in allegorical form is controversial. Spenser’s experiments with allegory revise its form, and this intervention is largely what Shakespeare and Milton find in his poetry and develop. Anderson’s book, the result of decades of teaching and writing about allegory, especially Spenserian allegory, will reorient thinking about fundamental critical issues and the landmark texts in which they play themselves out.

Author : Jennifer Munroe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934759
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature written by Jennifer Munroe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gendering of the garden during the period has gone largely unexamined. This new study focuses on the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status. The first part of the book focuses on how practical gardening books proposed methods for planting as they simultaneously represented gardens increasingly hierarchized by gender. The second part of the book looks at how men and women appropriated aesthetic uses of actual gardening in their poetry, and reveals a parallel gendered tension there. Munroe analyzes garden representations in the writings of such manuals writers as Gervase Markham, Thomas Hill, and William Lawson, and such poets as Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer and Lady Mary Wroth. Investigating gardens, gender and writing, Jennifer Munroe considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. She de-prioritizes the text as a primary means of cultural production, showing instead the relationship between what men and women might imagine possible and represent in their writing, and everyday spatial practices and the spaces men and women occupied and made. In so doing, she also broadens our outlook on whom we can identify and value as producers of early modern social space.

Author : King Adonis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Adonitology written by King Adonis and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as one of the greatest literary master pieces of its time, The Book of Adonitology: The Sacred Pentadon are the five sacred books of the Adonitology religion. It is the holy revelation of the true existence of Adonis the Heavenly Father and Issa Elohim The Holy Spirit, the curvaceous Mother-God. These holy revelations were given to our Lord and Savior King Adonis on the day of his enlightenment by the Angel Elishamel on Jan. 3rd 1996. The Book of Adonitology is the supreme authority and living source of all Adonitology teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Adonitology. Yet despite the growing interest in Adonitology teachings and culture, there has never been a form of sacred literature written for the modern day woman until now. The Book of Adonitology: The Sacred Pentadon of the Adonitology religion is written in contemporary language that makes the text easy to understand to the reader. The revelations are accurate and completely free of error. Furthermore, The Book of Adonitology: The Sacred Pentadon of the Adonitology Religion includes beautiful b&w paintings of some of the book's most voluptuous female characters as well as our Heavenly Father's first visitation by the Angel Elishamel. The dictionary is arranged as definitions for easy reference. The introduction recalls the visitation the King Adonis received by the Angel Elishamel on that fateful day as well as the Adonitology mantra. Of The Book of Adonitology: The Sacred Pentadon of the Adonitology Religion itself, examines and considers issues relating to human evolution, creationism, the relationship between the Triad and man, health and well being, science and technology, prosperity and the spiritual and sexual liberation of women with curves all in compassionate and brilliant fashion.