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Tag Archives: animals & mythical creatures
Infernal Roundtable
Roundtable Session Animals and Mythical Creatures of the Underworld Myth Reading Group Thursday 21 March 2019 12.00 – 1.30 pm Room 5B.124 For our last session of the term we will hold a roundtable discussion on Underworld Animals and Creatures. … Continue reading
Animals and Mythical Creatures – Roundtable
Roundtable Session Animals and Mythical Creatures Myth Reading Group Thursday 7 March 2019 12.00 – 1.30 pm Room 5B.124 We are very pleased to announce that our next session will be a roundtable discussion. As a way of starting our … Continue reading
Guest Post: ‘Avianthropy’ and the Sung Ballad in The Earl Of Mar’s Daughter
‘Avianthropy’ and the Sung Ballad in The Earl Of Mar’s Daughter Adrian May I first read the story of The Earl of Mar’s Daughter’ in Joseph Jacobs’ English Fairy Tales (1890). I was at once struck by its strangeness and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian May, animals & mythical creatures, Child ballads, music
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The People of the Sea
Dr Hannah Boast (University of Birmingham)The People of the Sea: Selkies in Scottish and Irish Folk Tales Myth Reading GroupWednesday 20 February 20195.00 – 6.30 pmRoom NTC.2.05 The selkie has enjoyed a revival of interest in popular culture following the … Continue reading
Pegasus in Pindar, Kavanagh, and Jung
Professor Roderick Main (Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex) Pegasus in Pindar, Kavanagh, and Jung Myth Reading Group Thursday 7 February 2019 12.00 – 1.30 pm Room 5B.124 In this session we shall canter and swoop around … Continue reading
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Tagged animals & mythical creatures, C. G. Jung, Greek mythology, Pegasus, Pindar, poetry, Roderick Main
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Guest Post: Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy Tales in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing Carla Scarano D’Antonio ‘This above all, to refuse to be a victim’ Surfacing A quest of personal and national identity is at the core of Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing, published in … Continue reading
Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy tales in Atwood’s Surfacing
Carla Scarano D’Antonio (University of Reading) Re-mythologizing Myths and Fairy tales: Surfacing (1972) by Margaret Atwood Myth Reading Group Wednesday 23 January 2019 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 This session on Surfacing (1972) will explore how Margaret Atwood uses … Continue reading
The Spectral Hound in Literature
Helena Senior (University of York) Who’s afraid of the big black dog? The origins of the spectral hound and its appropriation in literature. Myth Reading Group Wednesday 12 December 2018 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 The black dog is … Continue reading
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Tagged animals & mythical creatures, dogs, Dracula, modern/contemporary literature
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‘Avianthropy’ and the sung ballad in “The Earl of Mar’s Daughter”
Dr Adrian May (Department of LiFTS) ‘Avianthropy’ and the sung ballad in “The Earl of Mar’s Daughter” Myth Reading Group Wednesday 28 November 2018 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 The Earl of Mar’s Daughter (Child 270) is a forty-one … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian May, animals & mythical creatures, Child ballads, Cupid & Psyche, music
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Monstrosity and Love in The Shape of Water
Myth Reading Group Wednesday 14 November 2018 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 Eirini Apanomeritaki and Stefanie Savva will introduce this week’s discussion on Monstrosity and Love in The Shape of Water (2017). In his latest movie, The Shape of … Continue reading
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