The reception of the legend of Hero and Leander / / by Brian Murdoch.
This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical ver...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Companions to Classical Reception; volume19 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Companions to Classical Reception;
volume19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (421 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page / Brian Murdoch
- Dedication / Brian Murdoch
- Epigraph / Brian Murdoch
- Preface / BM
- Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions / Brian Murdoch
- The Classical World / Brian Murdoch
- Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages / Brian Murdoch
- Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After / Brian Murdoch
- Ballads, Folk and Literary / Brian Murdoch
- Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric / Brian Murdoch
- The Challenge of Drama / Brian Murdoch
- The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After / Brian Murdoch
- Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques / Brian Murdoch
- Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays / Brian Murdoch
- Modern Experiments / Brian Murdoch
- Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? / Brian Murdoch
- Back Matter
- Bibliography / Brian Murdoch
- Index / Brian Murdoch.