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Myth Reading Group 1 June: Pindar and Mandelstam

Posted on 24 May 2021 by ὑποκείμενον

The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 1 June, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Pindar’s Pythian Odes celebrate victors in the funeral games … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: ‘Avianthropy’ and the Sung Ballad in The Earl Of Mar’s Daughter

Posted on 21 February 2019 by ὑποκείμενον

‘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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‘Avianthropy’ and the sung ballad in “The Earl of Mar’s Daughter”

Posted on 22 November 2018 by ὑποκείμενον

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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Thursday 3 March: Afterlife of Myth in Béla Bartók’s Cantata Profana

Posted on 26 February 2016 by essexmyth

  This week, Dr. Anita Klujber introduces a discussion of the afterlife of myth in Béla Bartók’s Cantata Profana. Bartók’s Cantata Profana (1930), an intriguing piece of modern music, demonstrates the concept of afterlife both in its theme and in … Continue reading →

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Thursday 27 February: Georg Trakl

Posted on 25 February 2014 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Thursday 27 February 2014 1 – 2 p.m. Room 5N.7.23 The poem: Georg Trakl (1887-1914), ‘Helian’ (trans. Alexander Stillmark) [link expired] And, as a bonus treat, a sympathetic musical setting of Trakl’s poem Verfall [Decay] by the … Continue reading →

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Thursday 28 February: Scriabin – Music as Myth

Posted on 25 February 2013 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Thursday 28 February 2013 5 – 6 p.m. Music Room B (NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM) The texts (1 & 4 from Bowers, Scriabin, 2nd edition, 1996, 2 & 3 from Taruskin, History of Western Music Vol.4, Oxford 2010): … Continue reading →

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Thursday 14 February: Aphrodite and Arodaphnousa in Cyprus

Posted on 12 February 2013 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Thursday 14 February 2013 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.118 The text comprises two excerpts from Costas Montis and Andreas Christophides, Anthology of Cypriot Poetry, trans. Amy Mims. The first is a short extract from the ancient … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 15 November: Isaac versus Iphigeneia

Posted on 11 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 15 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Two texts: Genesis 22.1-19 (Authorized King James Version) Aeschylus, Agamemnon 104-257, trans. MacNeice (Faber, 1936) [link expired] … and end on a song:

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