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Minos and the Moderns - Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Hardcover)
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Minos and the Moderns - Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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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
readersinterested in the classical tradition and its continuing
relevance and especially to scholars of Classics and modern
literatures.
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