Σκοπός της προκείμενης εργασίας είναι η μελέτη της παράδοσης η οποία συνδέθηκε άρρηκτα με το όνομα του Ορφέα και ιδιαίτερα της ορφικής κοσμογονίας (Ορφικά-Κοσμογονικά). Το ενδιαφέρον θα εστιαστεί στις δύο εκδοχές της ορφικής θεογονίας, όσον αφορά στις πρώτες Αρχές. Σύμφωνα με την πρώτη εκδοχή πρώτη γενεσιουργός Αρχή ήταν η Νύχτα (Εύδημος), ενώ σύμφωνα με τη δεύτερη ο Χρόνος (Ὀρφικές ῥαψῳδίες, Ιερώνυμος και Ελλάνικος). Το κοινό σημείο και των δύο εκδοχών είναι η παρουσία της κατεξοχήν ορφικής οντότητας, του Πρωτόγονου (Πρωτόγονος-Φάνης-Έρως), ως γεννήματος της Νύχτας στην πρώτη εκδοχή και ως γεννήματος του Χρόνου στη δεύτερη. Θα εξεταστεί αναλυτικά η φύση, ο ρόλος, καθώς και η θέση του Πρωτόγονου στον ορφισμό, με σκοπό την πλήρη περιγραφή του. / --

The thesis The Phenomenon of Music in Painting on the Example of Image by Roelandt Savery "Orpheus Charming the Animals in the Landscape" treats the work of an early 17th century Dutch painter in the context of the phenomenon of music. The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate both how the phenomenon of music can be represented in painting, using the example of the above mentioned picture, and where its importance resides. The initial section provides the basic characteristics of the painting to be analysed, briefly introducing the painter, bringing forward a pre-iconographic description as well as discussing the problematics of its dating. The next section of the thesis focuses on an iconographic description of particular features of the examined painting, subsequently leading to an iconological analysis emphasising the meaning of the painting with regards to music. The final section deals with the painting and its origin in the historical context.

Who says there is only one Orpheus, the mythical singer, poet, lover, musician, tragedian? The pivotal term of this study 'Orpheus' potential' refers to a set of characteristic datas or qualities, encrypted into the iconography of this theme by the time of c. 3 000 years and deciphered and interpreted by artists for nearly equivalent period. Although the Czech lands of the nineteenth century were both metaforically and literally distant from the Greek antiquity, we are able to trace a surprising volume of comments, receptions or appropriatons of Orpheus' iconography in various fields of arts: visual arts, dramatic arts, poetry, opera. The transformation of typology is discussed on illustrative examples using the genre of micro- stories, the second part of the study focuses on the localy determined shape of 'Slavic Orpheus', the person from the pre-Czech mythology, Lumír, who was gifted by analogic talents like his prototype.

The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura poético-filosófica do livro Marinheiro de primeira viagem, de Osman Lins, que se destaca por seu experimentalismo literário e por inovar o gênero \"literatura de viagem\". Embora seja um livro elaborado com base na viagem que seu autor fez à Europa, onde ficou seis meses, em 1961, ele não oferece a seus relatos as características que se costuma imprimir a esse gênero tradicional, em que o autor revela suas impressões e faz descrições das experiências vividas. Ao registrar suas memórias, ele cria uma estética literária inovadora por sua narrativa insubmissa, não-linear, marcadamente fragmentada, mas poética. Nos registros, o diálogo intertextual com a tradição cultural é intenso, e destacaremos esse intercâmbio como memória que a literatura tem dela mesma. Nessa relação entre textos, ganha relevo o mítico Orfeu e sua amada Eurídice, que potencializam a poética do livro e congregam o leitor ao texto para uma leitura hermenêutica com base na estética da recepção. Quanto ao aspecto filosófico do trabalho, encontramos apoio nas idéias hermenêuticoontológicas do filósofo Martin Heidegger e sua meditação sobre a obra de arte e a poesia, que contribuem para uma reflexão acerca do evento poético que unifica os fragmentos em Marinheiro de primeira viagem. / The purpose of this work is to do a poetic-philosophical reading of the Osman Lins book Marinheiro de primeira viagem, which is distinguished by its literary experimentalism, and its innovation in the \"travel narrative\". In spite of the fact that the author created this book based on a six month trip in Europe, in 1961, he didn\'t give it the characteristics normally founded in these traditional works which mean: impressions and descriptions of lived experiences. When he writes about his memoirs, he creates a new literary esthetics with a revolutionary narrative totally fragmentary and poetic. In the author\'s notes the intertextual dialogue with cultural tradition is so intensive, that we will stress the value of this interchange as literature memoirs. In this relation between the texts, we will also stress the mythical Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice which increase the poetic in the book and gather the reader with the text for a hermeneutic reading based on the esthetics of the reception. As for the philosophical aspect of this work, we have founded our choices on the philosopher Martin Heidegger hermeneutic-ontological ideas and his meditation on the works of art and the poetry, which contribute to a reflection about the poetic event which unifies the fragments in Marinheiro de primeira viagem.

Esta dissertação pretende analisar, sob a perspectiva dos Estudos Comparados, a obra O homem que não podia olhar para trás, do escritor moçambicano Nelson Saúte, destacando a hibridez do texto, tecido por vários diálogos que se entrelaçam entre as marcas da tradição oral e os aspectos estilísticos e estéticos da narrativa, em constante articulação com a pintura de Roberto Chichorro. Essa combinação de linguagens, trazendo à tona reminiscências deixadas pelo mito de Orfeu, remete a aspectos importantes da história de Moçambique. / This paper aims to analyze, from the perspective of Comparative Studies, the work O homem que não podia olhar para trás from the Mozambican writer Nelson Saúte, pointing out the hybrid of the text, performed by several dialogues that are closely connected among brands of oral tradition and stylistic and aesthetic aspects of the narrative, in constant relation to Roberto Chichorro\'s paintings. This combination of languages, bringing up reminiscences left by the myth of Orpheus, refers to important aspects of the history of Mozambique.

Notre lecture de la première partie de la Vita Nova, fondée à la fois sur le symbolisme du sang présent dans la première vision de Dante et sur la scène initiatique du mariage (le rire des femmes), nous permet de pénétrer dans le réseau symbolique de l'œuvre. Ainsi le sang versé par Paolo et Francesca fait écho au sang de Béatrice, et ne peut être compris que par rapport à une symbolique du livre présente dès la Vita Nova, non seulement avec l'image du "livre de la mémoire", mais surtout avec un cœur mangé compris dans le sens d'un engendrement de l'œuvre. Si la courtoisie ne peut être chez Dante qu'une courtoisie infernale, une courtoisie tournée non seulement vers les morts mais aussi vers le centre de la terre, il faut alors rejeter toute interprétation moraliste et théologique des valeurs courtoises chez Dante. En ce sens, notre travail invite à une reconsidération de la théologie chez Dante, et surtout du rapport entre Béatrice et la théologie. Et si nous invitons le lecteur de Dante à se montrer prudent non seulement envers des lectures trop moralisatrices de Dante au vingtième siècle, mais aussi envers toute tendance à idéaliser la figure de Béatrice, c'est pour mettre en évidence une double figuration de la différence sexuelle dans l'œuvre du poète: celle d'une union portant à un engendrement et rendant nécessaire la périlleuse traversée de l'Enfer, et celle d'une opposition terrifiante des femmes à l'initiation du poète (dans la Vita Nova)et à la traversée de l'Enfer. C'est ici que nous rencontrons non seulement la figure de Méduse, qui nous conduira à une longue réflexion sur la pétrification chez Dante, mais aussi le mythe d'Orphée, avec une opposition des femmes conduisant, après son voyage dans les régions mythiques de l'Hyperborée, à sa mort tragique lorsqu'il est déchiqueté par les femmes thraces. Ces réflexions nous auront porté non seulement à reconsidérer le sens de la figure d'Orphée dans le deuxième livre du Banquet, mais aussi le sens de l'allusion aux monts Riphée dans le chant XXVI du Purgatoire, en rapport à une symbolique du vent du Nord et du vent du Sud qui traverse une grande partie de l'œuvre du poète. Ainsi prend sens notre étude du cycle des "Rime Petrose", avec la figure pétrifiante de la Dame Pierre (rapprochée de Méduse), et la mise en évidence d'un symbolisme solsticial rendant plus complexe encore la question du dévoilement de Béatrice. Notre travail commençait avec le sang de Béatrice, il s'achève avec le reproche de la dame quant à l'esprit pétrifié et "teint" du poète("impetrato, tinto"), point de convergence d'un double parcours dans l'œuvre, que nous avons appelé le chemin du sang et le chemin de la pierre. / Our interpretation of the first part of the Vita Nova, based on the symbolism of blood present in the first vision of Dante and the initiatic wedding scene (the "gab"), enables us to get an insight of the Dante's symbolic system. One of the main ideas of this work is that love not only leads to death, but also to the experience of the Inferno. In other words, in Dante's work the dialectics of love and death is solved by a confrontation to the realm of the dead, which the poet first experiences when he both witnesses and takes part in the initiatic female rite during the wedding scene of the Vita Nova. Dante's courtly love does not simply come down to the dialectics between passionate love and purified love; thus, the ideal path from Eros to Caritas is being questioned, since Dante's courtly love, which reveals the initiatic structures revolving around Beatrice's unveiling, opens onto the realm of the dead. so any moralist or theological interpretation of Dante's courtly love shouldn't be accepted, whether in the Vita Nova or in the Fifth Canto of the Inferno: love is first and foremost an access to knowledge. We move on to the figure of Medusa and the question of petrification, linked not only to the blood symbolism but to a complex solsticial system. Petrification turns out to be a necessary step of the journey towards Lucifer.

The sound ascending is a musical theater work for two actors, four singers and piano. This project was a collaboration with playwright, Jason Tremblay. The story is a loose adaptation of Orpheus descending, by Tennessee Williams. Displaced from the rural, American South, most of our story takes place in Mazer, Afghanistan. Jason and I attempted to create an untraditional model. The work lies somewhere between a musical, oratorio and a song cycle. We both walked away with mixed feelings about the success of the work, following a preliminary premiere. I believe that the work is successful in its drama and storytelling. But in such a confined presentation, the work needs more diversity of material and character strength. Although complete for now, Jason and I plan on revising The sound ascending in the coming year. Most significantly, this project has been a learning experience. We both take away valuable lessons about writing and collaboration. / text

Vieno įdomiausių šiuolaikinio anglų rašytojo John’o Fowles’o kūryba yra lyg išsamus ir gilus ekskursas į vakarietiškos kultūros, filosofijos, mitologijos, meno ir istorijos raidą. Pasaulinėje literatūros kritikoje, J. Fowles’o proza yra analizuojama šiais aspektais: 1) kaip romantizmo ir neoromantizmo idėjų tesėja ir skleidėja, 2) kaip egzistencialistinės literatūros tęsėja, 3) kaip postmodernistinės rašymo tradicijos skleidėja, 4) kaip mitopoetikos ir mitinio rašymo atstovė. Darbo tikslas yra pateikti struktūrinę pačio Orfėjo mito analizę ir pritaikyti ją analizuojant Fowles’o prozą. Orfėjo mito struktūra atskleidžia akivaizdžias tris dalis, į kurias susigrupuoja visos mite esančios mitologemos. Trinarė Orfėjo mito struktūra sudaro binarines opozicijas, kuriomis remiantis galima atskleisti giluminius mito klodus, santykių pluoštus ir konfliktus.Pirmieji Orfėjo mitą pateikę rašytiniai šaltiniai - Vergilijaus „Georgikos“ ir Ovidijaus „Metamorfozės“ jau byloja apie šio mito invariantų interpretacinę gausą ir įvairovę. Vergilijus ir Ovidijus tą patį Orfėjo mitą pateikia visiškai skirtingai. Vergilijus naudoja Orfėjo mitą kaip Aristėjo mito svarbią dalį, kuri paaiškina gamtinio, kosminio ir kolektyvinio ciklo sutrikimą, t.y. – bičių praradimą. Ovidijus savo „Metamorfozėse“, priešingai nei kad Vergilijaus „Georgikose“, Orfėjas mite atlieka tarpininko vaidmenį, jis yra mediatorius, pagrindinė ašis leidžianti egzistuoti visiem esantiems mite santykiams ir konfliktams. Orfėjas kaip... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / One of the most interesting contemporary novelists John Fowles’s creation can be considered as a deep and broad excursus to the development of western culture, philosophy, mythology, art and history. In literature critics Fowles’s creation is analysed in these aspects: 1) as the existential projections of romance proceeding the traditions of the romanticism literature, 2) as the holder of existential literature traditions, 3) as the supporter of postmodern tradition in literature, 3) as the representative of myth poetic. The aim of this thesis is to give the structural analysis of the myth of Orpheus and to apply it in the analysis of Fowles’s prose. The structure of the myth of Orpheus reveals three parts and groups all the myth elements in them. The trinomial structure of the myth of Orpheus creates the binary oppositions that help to reveal all the layers of the myth, the main conflicts and relations. Virgil’s “Georgics” and Ovid’s “Metamorphosis” - the first written resources where we meet the myth of Orpheus, already proves that the myth has lots of invariants and interpretation possibilities. Virgil and Ovid represent the myth of Orpheus in very different ways. Virgil uses the myth of Orpheus as the complex part of the myth of Aristeus which helps to explain the reason how he lost his bees and why the natural order is discomfited. Ovid in his “Metamorphosis” argues Virgil and depicts the myth of Orpheus as the main centre of narration and the base for the other myths... [to full text]

Esta dissertação pretende analisar, sob a perspectiva dos Estudos Comparados, a obra O homem que não podia olhar para trás, do escritor moçambicano Nelson Saúte, destacando a hibridez do texto, tecido por vários diálogos que se entrelaçam entre as marcas da tradição oral e os aspectos estilísticos e estéticos da narrativa, em constante articulação com a pintura de Roberto Chichorro. Essa combinação de linguagens, trazendo à tona reminiscências deixadas pelo mito de Orfeu, remete a aspectos importantes da história de Moçambique. / This paper aims to analyze, from the perspective of Comparative Studies, the work O homem que não podia olhar para trás from the Mozambican writer Nelson Saúte, pointing out the hybrid of the text, performed by several dialogues that are closely connected among brands of oral tradition and stylistic and aesthetic aspects of the narrative, in constant relation to Roberto Chichorro\'s paintings. This combination of languages, bringing up reminiscences left by the myth of Orpheus, refers to important aspects of the history of Mozambique.