Terence Dawson

Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology

Loss, Longing, and Self-Awareness

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last two thousand years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032857312
• ISBN-10: 1032857315
• Artikelnr.: 71618683

Autorenporträt

Terence Dawson is an independent scholar, following a career teaching English and European literature at universities in Brazil, the UK, and Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Orpheus, or Impossible Longing 1. The Myth of Orpheus
and Eurydice as Moral Philosophy: Virgil's Epyllion 2. The Myth of Orpheus
and Eurydice as Psychological Process: Ovid's 'Song of Orpheus' 3. and
Christian Allegory: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4. The Myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice and Love: The Renaissance and Early Baroque 5. The
Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and Social and Personal Concerns: The Late
Baroque and the Age of Sensibility 6. The Nineteenth Century Part 2:
Eurydice, or Unbearable Loss 7. Early Twentieth-Century Modernism 8.
Orpheus and Eurydice, Dysfunctional Times, and the Need to Testify: The
Second World War 9. Orpheus as Embodiment of the Creative Impulse: The
1950s 10. Orpheus Trapped Inside a Tragic Myth: 1960 to 1995 11. Orpheus
and Eurydice, Confronting Reality and Self-Awareness: 1995 to 2020