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Tag Archives: Homeric Hymn
Myth Reading Group: Call for Proposals, Autumn 2019
Centre for Myth Studies — Myth Reading Group Call for Proposals: Myth and Childhood We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting suggestions for texts to read for our new theme, Myth and Childhood. We invite proposals from … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, call for papers, Homeric Hymn, myth and childhood, Philip Pullman
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Thursday 10 March: Narrating Persephone’s ‘Afterlife’
In this session, Brittany Kuhn introduces a discussion of the reception of the figure of Persephone in contemporary poetry. The myth of Demeter and Persephone has been widely studied and ‘translated’ across cultures and periods. Yet, we learn very little … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, Greek mythology, Homeric Hymn, Louise Glück, modern/contemporary literature, Persephone, poetry, Rita Dove
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Thursday 11 February: Demeter and Persephone: A Jungian Interpretation
This week Joyce Tye will introduce a discussion of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, offering a Jungian interpretation. The underworld holds the deepest secrets and is a prime concern of the soul. For Carl G. Jung, myths provided not … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, C. G. Jung, Demeter, Greek mythology, Homeric Hymn, Persephone
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Tuesday 17 January: Persephone – Extraordinary Renditions: To Hell and Back
Myth Reading Group Tuesday 17 January 2012 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5B.330 — NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM We have three principal texts for this week… 01 Introduction by Leon Burnett (to be read first) 02 Mandel’shtam’s Persephone Poems (‘I … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, D. H. Lawrence, Demeter, Homeric Hymn, Leon Burnett, Orpheus, Osip Mandel’shtam, Persephone, poetry, Tennyson
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