In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete by Momigliano, Nicoletta

In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350156708)

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In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete by Momigliano, Nicoletta

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

$30.95
In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete by Momigliano, Nicoletta

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

$30.95
Format: Paperback
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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, Andr Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, L on 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.

Author: Nicoletta Momigliano
ISBN-10: 1350156701
ISBN-13: 9781350156708
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.78d
By Nicoletta Momigliano
By Nicoletta Momigliano
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Nicoletta Momigliano is Professor of Aegean Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She specialises in Minoan archaeology and has directed and co-directed several archaeological projects in Crete and Turkey, including excavations at Knossos and Palaikastro, and field surveys in Lycia. Her previous books include Duncan Mackenzie: A Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos at Knossos (1999), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans' (edited with Y. Hamilakis, 2006), Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan) (2007), and Cretomania: Modern Desires for the Minoan Past (edited with A. Farnoux, 2017).

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