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, who is destroyed, ruined’). Κιναίδους is equivalent καταπύγους (Kappa 145), which again is addressing the occasional life of καταπύγων in the second declension (also seen in Hesychios). Also, ἀσελγής appears as a synonym for κίναιδος (Kappa 329). 2.4 Photios

In: Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome
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fourteen years of Pollock’s life for the screen, from 1941 to his death in a car accident in 1956. Crucially, this is the time of Pollock’s relationship with Lee Krasner. This choice points to the importance that the film attributes to Krasner in Pollock’s life. Like many artist biopics, Pollock tells

In: Screening the Creative Process
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Jane Campion’s 2009 film Bright Star explores the relationship between English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) and Fanny Brawne (1800–1865) during the last three years of Keats’ short life, from 1818 until his death in 1821. Keats and Brawne were neighbours in Hampstead, and, for a period

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betraying an uncontrollable sexuality. This suggests that artistic patronage could be problematic for courtly women: writers who depended on their favour in order to make a living would sing their praises but could live a literary ‘double life,’ simultaneously penning anonymous polemical literature

In: The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-waiting across Early Modern Europe
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born, managed to get a teaching degree in Granada in 1895 and moved to Madrid in 1901, as a single mother, to earn her living (Núñez Rey, Carmen de Burgos 69–85). For the rest of her life she combined working as a teacher with a successful career as a journalist and writer under the pseudonym of

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city as a place ‘for a living out of counter-normative, creative identities.’ 18 Maurice Blanchot, for example, thought of Berlin as ‘not only Berlin, but also the symbol of the division of the world, and even more: a ‘point in the universe’, the place where reflection on the both necessary and

In: Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research

with the depiction of one’s own life is as old as literature itself and was already consciously used in the Middle Ages. 1 In France especially, the ‘autobiography in the form of a novel’ has remained a decisive trend in the literary world up until today, although certain dissenting voices who favour

In: Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research
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that confirmed that irrational women were ill-fit for public life. A further element of her representation of mourning for Henri built upon the construction Catherine had made as Henri’s foremost partner, of which, as explored in Chapter 2, the queen mother gained more control during the reigns of her

In: The Identities of Catherine de' Medici
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care seems to have been an early impulse and motivation, which led Hughes from wildlife-watching to poetry-writing and became a life-long commitment. 17 The author himself has acknowledged the key role of the animal in his writings by turning it into a poetical metaphor. In his crucial essay Poetry

In: Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research

—regards Jock’s voracious hunger as the result of a series of privations and his crimes as motivated by extreme poverty, since Jock kills a lamb out of hunger and murders the lamb’s vengeful owner to save his life. According to Duncan, through this story Hogg represents a great contest between nature (appetite

In: Marriage in James Hogg’s Work