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Journal articles on the topic "Sports stories, Greek (Modern)"
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Zachariades-Holmberg, Evie. "Modern Greek Short Stories (review)." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 13, no. 1 (1995): 156–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mgs.2010.0406.
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Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. "Narrative Organization and Contextual Constraints: The Case of Modern Greek Storytelling." Journal of Narrative and Life History 5, no. 2 (1995): 161–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.5.2.04nar.
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Abstract Use of connective forms in oral narratives is increasingly investigated as a device for signaling higher level discoursal relations, thus serving the stories' global organization. I set out to explore connective forms as both local and global links using Modern Greek storytelling as its data. My aims are to uncover the stories' template of organizational relations and to demonstrate their context sensitivity. This is achieved by looking into linkage forms in storytelling for adults as well as in storytelling addressed to children. The results of the analysis bring to the fore an audience-shaped strategy of conti-nuity and explicit signposting in the case of stories for children, as opposed to a strategy of salient segmentational shifts that mainly relies on devices other than discourse markers in stories for adults. I show that these strategies are revealing of an interaction between the stories' textual choices and their im-mediate context of occurrence. In addition, they index and are shaped by the stories' wider sociocultural context of occurrence. (Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics)
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Grammatas, Theodore. "Modern Greek Drama and Theatre in the Crisis Period: Mnemonic Flashback of the past as a Defense Mechanism in the Present." European Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (2019): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejss-2019.v2i1-56.
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:At the beginning of the 21st Century, Modern Greek Dramaturgy had already entered the Postmodernism phase, closely adhering to the trends of international theatre. The economic and cultural crisis that set in after the first decade brought an end to almost every innovative attempt. Obsolete types and forms, subjects and stories/plots, are recycled and updated. The Past reappears in exactly the same way it used to be depicted in 20th or even 19th century literary texts and successful comedies of the Greek cinema of the 50’s-60’s are almost completely prevailing. It is not, however, the first time this phenomenon is observed in the Modern Greek Theatre. A similar one appears in the Interwar period (1922-1940), when, for political, social and economic reasons reality becomes very negative for Greek playwrights. The recent and distant Past appears to have a redemptive effect, thus offering an alibi and a way-out deprived by the Present.This is the subject of our announcement, based on the notions and the function of theatrical memory and the multiple roles by which History is joining Theatre.
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Zarimis, Maria. "The Influence of Darwinian Ideas on Greek Literary Writers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Case of Emmanuel Roidis." Historical Review/La Revue Historique 4 (November 20, 2008): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.213.
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<p>Darwin's works provoked an enormous response in many disciplines including the literary world. This paper presents a portion of my doctoral thesis3, which responds to a blind spot in Greek literary scholarship on evolutionary ideas in comparison to other Western countries. Little work to date focuses on modern Greek writers's responses to Darwinian and other evolutionary ideas. This paper explores the impact of Darwin in selected writings of Emmanuel Roidis and how Roidis satirised Darwinism in his essays and short stories, contributing to the Darwinian discourse on "man's place in nature" and by placing humanity on the same continuum as other primates. The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his <em>The Origin of Species</em>. It is timely, then, to consider Darwin's impact on modern Greek literature.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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McTavish, John. "Myth, Gospel, and John Updike's centaur." Theology Today 59, no. 4 (2003): 596–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057360305900406.
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The Centaur is one of John Updike's most gospel-imbued novels. However, the explicit symbolism, drawn mainly from Greek mythology, often poses a barrier. This article shows how the symbolism works in The Centaur, how Updike constantly charges his realistic stories with mythical overtones, and how no myth looms larger for the author than the Christian story of the God who literally became human in order to suffer with us and for us. George Caldwell, the hero of The Centaur, turns out to be not only an embodiment of the Greek god Chiron, but a modern-day image of the Christ who shelters the world with God's own self-sacrificing love.
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Chukwumah, Ignatius, and Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife. "Persecution in Igbo-Nigerian Civil-War Narratives." Matatu 49, no. 2 (2017): 241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04902001.
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Abstract Sociopolitical phenomena such as corruption, political instability, (domestic) violence, cultural fragmentation, and the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) have been central themes of Nigerian narratives. Important as these are, they tend to touch on the periphery of the major issue at stake, which is the vector of persecution underlying the Nigerian tradition in general and in modern Igbo Nigerian narratives in particular, novels and short stories written in English which capture, wholly or in part, the Igbo cosmology and experience in their discursive formations. The present study of such modern Igbo Nigerian narratives as Okpewho’s The Last Duty (1976), Iyayi’s Heroes (1986), Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), and other novels and short stories applies René Girard’s theory of the pharmakos (Greek for scapegoat) to this background of persecution, particularly as it subtends the condition of the Igbo in postcolonial Nigeria in the early years of independence.
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Young, Mark S. "Stories of Modern Technology Failures and Cognitive Engineering Successes." Ergonomics 51, no. 11 (2008): 1793–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00140130802124350.
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Young, Mark S., and Stephen Morrissey. "Stories of modern technology failures and cognitive engineering successes." Ergonomics 52, no. 3 (2009): 407–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00140130802295598.
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Connors, Catherine. "Monkey Business: Imitation, Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus." Classical Antiquity 23, no. 2 (2004): 179–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2004.23.2.179.
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Abstract This essay explores references to monkeys as a way of talking about imitation, authenticity, and identity in Greek stories about the ““Monkey Island”” Pithekoussai (modern Ischia) and in Athenian insults, and in Plautus' comedy. In early Greek contexts, monkey business defines what it means to be aristocratic and authoritative. Classical Athenians use monkeys to think about what it means to be authentically Athenian: monkey business is a figure for behavior which threatens democratic culture——sycophancy or other deceptions of the people. Plautus' monkey imagery across the corpus of his plays moves beyond the Athenian use of ““monkey”” as a term of abuse and uses the ““imitative”” relation of monkeys to men as a metapoetic figure for invention and play-making. For Plautus, imitator——and distorter——of Greek plays, monkeys' distorted imitations of men are mapped not onto the relations between inauthentic and authentic citizens, as in Athens, but onto the relation of Roman to Greek comedy and culture at large. Monkey business in Plautus is part of the insistence on difference which was always crucial in Roman encounters with Greek culture.
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Marinou, Chryssa. "Automata: Professional Lives and the Time of the Contingent." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 11 (October 18, 2019): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.20896.
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Kostas Peroulis’s collection of short stories Automata (2015) consists of ten short stories that narrate the experience of ten different characters involved in differentkinds of labor. The stories’ characters constitute the book’s labor force and have afoothold in all sectors of economy: the primary sector (agriculture), the secondary sector (industrial production) and the tertiary sector (services, including sex work). The automatisation and repetition that define the work experience of Peroulis's unnamed characters also define their present while the context of the Greek crisis and its social and political effects lurk in the background. This essay reads the characters’relation to labour at a time of historical contingency that is well beyond the austerity measures and what is generally called the financial crisis. I argue that the stories map the experience of the contingent in contemporary Greece as Peroulis’s text focuses onthe minutiae of the characters’ professional lives. The details of their labour reveal the condition of contingency which becomes dominant in a literary text that, as this essay argues, returns to the subject, and thus, to the modern.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sports stories, Greek (Modern)"
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Natsina, Anastasia. "Greek short stories in the last quarter of the twentieth century : contribution to an exploration of the postmodern." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a5e8d523-e2de-449f-8b5e-fe16d86f4edb.
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The thesis examines Greek short stories written and published since the fall of the dictatorship in Greece in 1974, a year marking the beginning of the country's increasing opening to western lifestyles, mentalities and preoccupations. The present research explores two questions: How do Greek short stories of this period respond to the challenges of the postmodern condition, and what is the picture of the postmodern that one could draw from these texts. To this goal more than a hundred short stories are examined, by Sotiris Dimitriou, Michel Fais, Rhea Galanaki, E. Ch. Gonatas, Yiorgos loannou, Christophoros Milionis, Dimitris Nollas, I. Ch. Papadimitrakopoulos, Ersi Sotiropoulou, Christos Vakalopoulos, and Zyranna Zateli. The thesis is structured on a thematic basis, studying the major themes of reality and the subject, in order to evaluate the kind and degree of subversion that this fundamental bipolar axis of modern thought is undergoing in the postmodern condition. The readings are informed by contemporary theory, ranging from microhistory and Bakhtinian dialogism to poststructuralism and deconstruction, Levinas's ethical theory and Wittgensteinian language games. The textual analysis reveals that the traditional notion of reality as a unified totality is coming under severe strain; the critique mounted by the texts ranges from negative recognition of cosmological plurality through epistemological failure to an increasingly positive recognition of multiple incommensurate universes, be that by means of metafiction or, more radically still, a magic realism that transcends the world of the text to imbue performatively the world of the reader. The reality of the past in the form of historical truth is another target of scrutiny, as the unearthing of multiple insignificant, private and a-systemic events undermines the formerly dominant monolithic representations of the past and uncover its discursive construction, thereby facilitating the emergence of marginal historical subjects by means of fictional terms. Accordingly, the subject is no longer represented as a dominant and autonomous agent but as discursively constructed within a web of power relations. Yet this predicament creates the potential for a narrative identity and an alternative ethics founded on the acknowledgment of difference and interpersonal relations. Lastly, games, and especially language games, as a particular trope of merging reality and the subject, signal the cultural determination of irredeemable difference and plurality that is a constant in postmodern critique. Apart from suggesting the significance of the texts studied and proposing novel approaches to them, the thesis also promotes the re-evaluation of the short story as a genre in the study of the contemporary, while at the same time offering a detailed account of particular instances of postmodern critique on the fundaments of modern thought.
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Kaminski, Emily M. "Happily Ever After & Other Myths." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1500478511202885.
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Σταυρογιαννοπούλου, Ευθυμία. "Τα διηγήματα από τα Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας της Α΄ Γυμνασίου σύμφωνα με τη δομική αφηγηματολογία του Claude Bremond". Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10889/5647.
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Η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνει το ενδιαφέρον της στην προσέγγιση των διηγημάτων που περιέχονται στα Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας της Α΄ τάξης του Γυμνασίου. Η προσέγγιση αυτή γίνεται με βάση τη «στρουκτουραλιστική εκδοχή» της Αναγνωστικής Θεωρίας και συγκεκριμένα τη θεωρία του Γάλλου σημειολόγου/αφηγηματολόγου Claude Bremond. Γίνεται μια προσπάθεια ανάδειξης της σύνδεσης ανάμεσα στην Αφηγηματολογία και στην ερμηνεία κειμένων που διδάσκονται στο Γυμνάσιο. Η εργασία οργανώνεται σε δύο μέρη. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο του πρώτου μέρους εκτίθεται η προβληματική της έρευνας, οι στόχοι και η μέθοδος που ακολουθείται. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο εκτίθεται αναλυτικά το θεωρητικό μοντέλο που προτείνει ο Bremond για την ανάλυση κάθε είδους αφηγηματικών κειμένων. Βασικές έννοιες του μοντέλου του είναι οι ρόλοι δρώντων και πασχόντων υποκειμένων και οι διαδικασίες, οι οποίες συνδέονται μεταξύ τους αλλά και με τους ρόλους. Στο δεύτερο μέρος γίνεται η ανάλυση του λογοτεχνικού υλικού, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει δέκα διηγήματα, σύμφωνα με το θεωρητικό μας εργαλείο. Τέλος, με αφορμή τα συγκεκριμένα διηγήματα γίνονται κάποιες προτάσεις για τη διδακτική αξιοποίηση του μοντέλου του Bremond στο Γυμνάσιο.<br>The present work focuses on the approach of short stories contained in the Texts of Modern Greek Literature taught at the first class of the Greek High School. This approach is based on the “structuralist version” of the Reader-Response Theory and, specifically, on the theory of the French semiologist/narratologist Claude Bremond. An effort has been made to show the connection between Narratology and the interpretation of texts taught at the Greek High School. The work consists of two parts. In the first chapter of the first part the research problems, the objectives and the used methodology are analyzed. In the second chapter, Bremond’s theoretical model for the analysis of all kinds of narrating texts is examined thoroughly. The basic concepts of his model are the roles of the agents, the roles of the patients and the processes, which are connected with each other as well as with the roles. The second part includes the analysis of the Literature material, which consists of ten short stories, using the theoretical tool. Finally, having in mind these particular short stories, certain suggestions for the educational use of Bremond’s model at the Greek High School are made.
Books on the topic "Sports stories, Greek (Modern)"
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Price, Elizabeth. Gran's tales of Tigga-The-Wombrat and his friends: 12 wonderful tales. Rubini Publication, 2008.
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Vizyēnos, G. M. Me ton G.M. Vizyēno, alla kai chōris auton. Ekdoseis Patakē, 2006.
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"‘There Was Only One Thing Paradoxical About the Man”: An Oblique Perspective on Madness in Four Stories by Georgios." In Modern Greek Literature. Routledge, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203503911-10.
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"From Antiquity to Olympic Revival: Sports and Greek National Historiography (Nineteenth – Twentieth Centuries)." In Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315872766-8.
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Nilsson, Ingela. "Comforting Tears and Suggestive Smiles: To Laugh and Cry in the Komnenian Novel." In Greek Laughter and Tears. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403795.003.0017.
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The stories of the Komnenian novels, written in imitation of ancient Greek models during the mid-twelfth century in Constantinople, display a significant mixture of happiness and sadness, or rather a combination of tears and laughter. While a modern reader may expect tears to represent sadness and laughter happiness, both laughing and crying can take on quite different functions and meanings in ancient and Byzantine novels. Not only tears and laments but also laughter and smiles are here investigated in relation to the workings of Eros. Smiles and laughter often indicate the presence of desire and sometimes create confusion, departing from but at the same time closely adhering to the basically sad story of the loving couple’s misfortunes. Tears and laughter are not opposites in the novels; they work together under the influence of Eros.
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Mann, Christian. "Cash and Crowns: A Network Approach to Greek Athletic Prizes." In Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421775.003.0011.
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It is well known that Olympic victors received “only” an olive wreath – a fact that classified them as “amateurs” in the perspective of the modern Olympic movement. But the reality of ancient sports was far more complex: At many competitions, the victors’ awards were objects of value (amphorae filled with olive oil, weapons and other bronze objects, living animals) or cash. In some cases, victors were not allowed to do with the prize what they wanted to, but were obligated to dedicate it in a sanctuary, to sell it to the polis officials, to deliver it to a king etc. So what was the nature of athletic prizes? They have been analyzed as cult objects or in the context of gift exchange (according to Marcel Mauss). This chapter offers a new approach taking into account network theory and theories about the convertibility of capital: Athletic prizes – wreaths as well as value prizes – are considered as objects with both an economic and symbolic dimension. Their function was to construct and strengthen networks in the Greek world, while the structure of those networks changed according to political developments.
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McConnell, Justine. "Myth and the Fantastic in the Work of Junot Díaz." In Classicisms in the Black Atlantic. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814122.003.0010.
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This chapter explores the ways in which Junot Díaz draws on ancient Greek myth in two of his works, Drown (1996) and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Placing Greek myth alongside the stories from other fantastical worlds, such as those found in the works of Tolkien and Marvel Comics, Díaz offers a pathway to realms seemingly not affected by transatlantic slavery, racism, or modern dictatorship and diaspora. Yet, as much work on magical realism has shown, a turn to the fantastic can be deeply political. Díaz’s evocation of Greek myth (most prominently, those of Homer’s Odyssey and the House of Atreus) is given only as much space as the myths of other times and places, thereby stripping the classical canon of the aura of superiority which it gained during the colonial period. In doing so, Díaz works to creates a new epic for the Dominican diaspora.
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Levy, Sharon. "Strangled Waters: Second Wave." In The Marsh Builders. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190246402.003.0014.
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In August 2014, the water supply for the city of Toledo, Ohio, was poisoned. Officials issued an order to the half- million residents connected to the municipal water supply: Don’t drink, cook, or brush your teeth with the water. Do not use it to bathe your children, and don’t give it to your pets. Stores ran out of bottled water, and residents had to wait in long lines or travel to neighboring towns to find more. The culprit was a bright green plume of Microcystis, a cyanobacterium that thrives in warm water tainted with heavy loads of phosphorus and nitrogen. Every spring, rains wash a pulse of nutrients off fertilized fields and send it down the Maumee and Sandusky rivers and into western Lake Erie. Every summer, as water temperatures rise, Microcystis forms an iridescent mat over parts of the lake’s surface. In early August 2014, strong winds blew a lawn of cyanobacteria over Toledo’s water intake, which lies just outside the Maumee’s mouth. Tests showed that the city’s water contained dangerous levels of microcystin, a liver toxin produced by the bloom. The drinking water crisis was a dramatic signal of Lake Erie’s descent back into eutrophication. In the 1980s, after sewage plants in the watershed were upgraded and phosphate detergents banned, Lake Erie experienced a revival. Algal blooms faded, and populations of walleye rebounded. The lake grew a thriving tourist industry based on sport fishing. Then, in 1995, researchers recorded the lake’s first widespread bloom of Microcystis. Eruptions of Microcystis have since become a predictable event striking the western Lake Erie basin every summer. The most widespread and long- lasting blooms hit in 2011 and 2015, after intense spring rains dumped heavy loads of nutrients into the lake. Climate models forecast warmer summer temperatures and heavier spring rains for the Great Lakes region. Those conditions are a recipe for more and larger algal blooms, and are likely to favor Microcystis in particular. The regulatory efforts of the 1970s and 1980s made great progress in cleaning up discharges from industries and sewage treatment plants, but failed to address nonpoint source pollution flowing from farm fields and city streets.
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Costanzo, William V. "Comedy, History, and Culture." In When the World Laughs. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924997.003.0005.
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How has comedy evolved around the globe from earliest times to today? Chapter 4 offers a chronology of comedy. Distinguishing among laughter, comedy, and humor, it finds evidence of humor in ancient texts and imagery, tracing the evolution of comic genres through classical Greek drama, Sanskrit poetry, early China, medieval Europe, and feudal Japan. The chronology continues with an account of popular festivals of laughter, comedic stage performances, and precursors of the comic novel, showing how they led to modern literary and cinematic forms as well as televised sitcoms and live standup. Motion pictures borrowed silent gags and witty wordplay from vaudeville, channeled the freewheeling energy of picaresque stories into episodic road movies, adapted the amatory impulses of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies to the screen, and turned the Carnivalesque spirit into scenes of cinematic mischief and mayhem.
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Eastlake, Laura. "New Imperialism and the Problem of Cleopatra." In Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833031.003.0006.
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This chapter demonstrates how, by the closing decades of the century, Rome had eclipsed both Greek and Germanic pasts as a model for figuring ideal imperial masculinity. This is most apparent in late Victorian writing about Egypt. Britain’s newest imperial acquisition in 1882 was also, significantly, the backdrop for ancient Rome’s triumph over the East and over Egypt’s most famous queen, Cleopatra. This chapter demonstrates how Henry Rider Haggard’s novel Cleopatra (1889) and the various stories now referred to collectively as ‘Mummy Fiction’, dramatize the extent to which British imperial identity and experience had become aligned with Roman examples by the end of the century. The New Imperialist is cast as a modern-day Caesar or Antony in his relationship with empire, as territorial and sexual desires become conflated and focused on the figure of Cleopatra herself.
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Ng, Su Fang. "Introduction." In Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777687.003.0001.
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This chapter examines the parallel literary traditions of the mythic Alexander the Great in the Eurasian archipelagic peripheries of Britain and Southeast Asia, focusing on how Alexander stories were transmitted from late antiquity through the medieval period and transformed by early modern authors. It looks at the global literary networks linking the British and Southeast Asian peripheries, along with their receptions of the Greek novel Alexander Romance. It also explores how Alexander was appropriated into English and Malay literatures and how both literary traditions connected him to the material culture and imagined presence of foreign others as part of their intercultural resonances. Finally, it describes how the myth of Alexander became intertwined with alterity and foreign relations at the two ends of the Eurasian trade routes, how he became associated with long-distance trade, and how he influenced the self-representation of emerging maritime empires.
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Christensen, Joel P. "Treating Telemachus, Education, and Learned Helplessness." In The Many-Minded Man. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752346.003.0003.
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This chapter offers a few different ways of understanding Telemachus's mental and emotional states and the transformation he undergoes as he moves from Ithaca through Pylos to Sparta. It compares this marginalized state to the modern theory of Learned Helplessness and argues that the Odyssey depicts Telemachus as proceeding through a system of action to treat it. While father and son exhibit similar symptoms, their etiologies differ. The chapter starts by looking at Telemachus's depiction at the beginning of the epic, where he starts out like his father, Odysseus, in a state of inaction, and by considering what it is that ails him. The epic frames him as suffering from a deficient community, which has deprived him of a proper learning environment from the perspective of ancient Greek culture and modern cognitive psychology. The limited nature of his learning experiences has marginalized him by stunting his development as both a learner and a doer. This explanation, in addition, has the benefit of helping to motivate Athena's steps in mentoring him (as something of a teacher) and his traveling to hear and use stories.