In Search of the Labyrinth - The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete

In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts - from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, Andre Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicoletta Momigliano, Momigliano Nicoletta
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781784538545
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-854-5
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Library of Classical Studies; Library of Classical Studies; New Directions in Classics
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; European History, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Greece, Crete, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Prehistoric archaeology