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Ancient Worlds in Film and Television - Gender and Politics (Hardcover): Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon Ancient Worlds in Film and Television - Gender and Politics (Hardcover)
Almut-Barbara Renger, Jon Solomon
R5,322 Discovery Miles 53 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying academic disciplines have addressed film s way of using the field of Classical Reception to investigate, contemplate, and develop hypotheses about present-day culture, society, and politics, with a particular emphasis on gender and gender roles, their relationship to one another, and how filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.

Sukzession in Religionen (German, Hardcover): Almut-Barbara Renger, Markus Witte Sukzession in Religionen (German, Hardcover)
Almut-Barbara Renger, Markus Witte
R4,727 Discovery Miles 47 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Paperback): Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara... New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Paperback)
Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger
R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars.

New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Hardcover): Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara... New Antiquities - Transformations of Ancient Religion in the New Age and Beyond (Hardcover)
Dylan M. Burns, Almut-Barbara Renger
R2,556 Discovery Miles 25 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Just as we speak of "dead" languages, we say that religions "die out." Yet sometimes, people try to revive them, today more than ever. New Antiquities addresses this phenomenon through critical examination of how individuals and groups appeal to, reconceptualize, and reinvent the religious world of the ancient Mediterranean as they attempt to legitimize developments in contemporary religious culture and associated activity. Drawing from the disciplines of religious studies, archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, New Antiquities explores a diversity of cultic and geographic milieus, ranging from Goddess Spirituality to Neo-Gnosticism, from rural Oregon to the former Yugoslavia. As a survey of the reception of ancient religious works, figures, and ideas in later twentieth-century and contemporary alternative religious practice, New Antiquities will interest classicists, Egyptologists, and historians of religion of many stripes, particularly those focused on modern Theosophy, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Religious Movements, Magick, and Occulture. The book is written in a lively and engaging style that will appeal to professional scholars and advanced undergraduates as well as lay scholars.

Oedipus and the Sphinx - The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Hardcover, New): Duncan Alexander Smart,... Oedipus and the Sphinx - The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Hardcover, New)
Duncan Alexander Smart, Rice David, John T. Hamilton; Almut-Barbara Renger
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle - he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth - in which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm where rules and limits are not known - Oedipus and the Sphinx offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals with the concepts of liminality and otherness. Almut-Barbara Renger assesses the story's meanings and functions in classical antiquity - from its presence in ancient vase painting to its absence in Sophocles' tragedy - before arriving at two of its major reworkings in European modernity: the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud and the poetics of Jean Cocteau. Through her readings, she highlights the ambiguous status of the Sphinx and reveals Oedipus himself to be a liminal creature, providing key insights into Sophocles' portrayal and establishing a theoretical framework that organizes evaluations of the myth's reception in the twentieth century. Revealing the narrative of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be the very paradigm of a key transition experienced by all of humankind, Renger situates myth between the competing claims of science and art in an engagement that has important implications for current debates in literary studies, psychoanalytic theory, cultural history, and aesthetics.

Narcissus - Ein Mythos von der Antike bis zum Cyberspace (German, Paperback): Almut-Barbara Renger Narcissus - Ein Mythos von der Antike bis zum Cyberspace (German, Paperback)
Almut-Barbara Renger
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Der von Ovid erzahlte Mythos von Narcissus, der sich in sein Spiegelbild verliebt, hat von der Antike an eine ausserordentliche Wirkungsgeschichte gehabt. Dieser Band stellt in zehn Studien die Rezeption des Mythos dar und verfolgt, wie Narziss zu einem der zentralen Mythen im 20. Jahrhundert werden konnte.

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