Minos and the moderns : Cretan myth in twentieth-century literature and art

Publication Data

• Title Minos and the moderns : Cretan myth in twentieth-century literature and art
• Alternative Title Cretan myth in twentieth-century literature and art
• Author Theodore Ziolkowski
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Introduction : the modernization of myth
Europa and the bull : sex, society, and politics
The minotaur : the beast within and the threat outside
The other Cretans : alienation, invention, liberation
Conclusion : the modernity of myth.

Topics

• Mythology in literature
• Art and mythology
• Crete (Greece) :: In literature
• Crete (Greece) :: In art
• Crete (Greece)

Minos and the moderns : Cretan myth in twentieth-century literature and art by Theodore Ziolkowski. ISBN 9780195336917. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.