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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
Thursday 25 February: The Sibyl’s Afterlives
This week Eirini Apanomeritaki introduces a discussion of adaptations of the myth of the Sibyl in literature. In the session, we will discuss the ‘afterlife’ of the myth of the Cumaean Sibyl, the prophetess, who appears in both Virgil’s Aeneid … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, Eirini Apanomeritaki, Margaret Atwood, modern/contemporary literature, Ovid, Roman mythology, Sybil, Virgil
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Thursday 5 November: Judging Beauty: Reading Apuleius and Marie Darrieussecq
This week Eirini Apanomeritaki introduces a discussion of changing perceptions of beauty. How has our perception of beauty changed from antiquity to the present? The Judgement of Paris, a beauty contest among three goddesses, is one of the earliest stories … Continue reading
Thursday 18 June: Werewolves and the Uncanny in Angela Carter’s Short Stories
This week Eirini Apanomeritaki introduces a discussion of werewolves and the uncanny in two stories by Angela Carter: “The Werewolf” and “The Company of Wolves” from The Bloody Chambers and Other Stories, 1979 (in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Eirini Apanomeritaki, Freud, myth & emotion, uncanny, werewolves
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