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The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (421 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004400948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Reception of the Legend of Hero and LeanderDDC classification:
  • 480
LOC classification:
  • PA27 .M873 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions -- Chapter 2 The Classical World -- Chapter 3 Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4 Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After -- Chapter 5 Ballads, Folk and Literary -- Chapter 6 Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric -- Chapter 7 The Challenge of Drama -- Chapter 8 The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After -- Chapter 9 Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques -- Chapter 10 Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays -- Chapter 11 Modern Experiments -- Chapter 12 Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions -- Chapter 2 The Classical World -- Chapter 3 Ovid (Often) Moralised: the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4 Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After -- Chapter 5 Ballads, Folk and Literary -- Chapter 6 Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric -- Chapter 7 The Challenge of Drama -- Chapter 8 The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After -- Chapter 9 Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques -- Chapter 10 Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays -- Chapter 11 Modern Experiments -- Chapter 12 Some Shallow Story of Deep Love? -- Bibliography -- Index.

A study of the literary reception of the love-story of Hero and Leander and its popularity from classical times to the present in different genres, from epigram to epic, and including drama, opera, burlesques and modern experimental works.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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