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From:Connotations (Vol. 12, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedI In the sunless fog preceding the dawn in Chapter 20 of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1890), Angel Clare mobilises the decorative rhetoric of late-Victorian Hellenic paganism to manufacture the...
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From:Helios (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe last episode of Book 1 of Apollonius's Argonautica (1.1187-1357) tells the story of Heracles' loss of his beloved Hylas, snatched away by a spring nymph as he was fetching water to prepare dinner. (1) The episode is...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 122, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLewis Carroll's fairy tale about a young girl's descent underground is literally the oldest story in the world. Originally entitled Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Carroll's fairy tale is based on the story of the...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere is a landscape of fact, and there is a landscape of memory. My daughter and I drove across the fact of the Flint Hills of Kansas--an ocean of wintered grasses, mustard and dun and russet, bare trees planted as...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe three years during which William Carlos Williams composed Kora in Hell , his "unhappiness book," yet also his favorite child, were crowded with events, both familial and public, that pushed him to the brink of a...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Goluboff is an associate professor of English at Lake Forest College. In the following essay, he examines the influence of Greek mythology on Wharton's “Pomegranate Seed.”] Edith Wharton's “Pomegranate Seed” is a...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 95, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe trail of light formed by the headlamps of cars racing across the steppe highway dwindled to nothing in the darkness. That light was powerless to illuminate the darkness around us, but nevertheless, there it was. I...
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From:Femspec (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper compares the ancient Greek Hymn of Demeter with Rachel Zucker's contemporary revision, Eating in the Underworld. Both the ancient myth and Zucker's rendition attempt to define dynamics in the mother-daughter...