Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Poetry (2)
- Australian poetry (1)
- China (1)
- Death (1)
- Existentialism (1)
-
- Femininity in literature (1)
- H D -- (Hilda Doolittle) - 1886-1961 -- Helen in Egypt -- Criticism (1)
- Helen - of Troy (1)
- Jim Morrison (1)
- Mythology (1)
- Oedipus (1)
- Psychoanalysis (1)
- Queen of Sparta – Poetry (1)
- Sex (1)
- Sex (Psychology) (1)
- Shanghai (1)
- Textual (1)
- Transcendence (1)
- Vision and cinema (1)
- [ECUPub] (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips
Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips
Research outputs pre 2011
The Shanghai Suite was written during a two month period in early 2004 while I was a visiting professor teaching a course in 'Western' Culture' at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. This was also part of the research for my PhD in Creative Writing. During and after those months, I composed most of the poems about Shanghai and that region of China...
Mourning Eros: Hieroglyphic Love And Loss In H.D.'S Helen In Egypt, Shauna Karine Dorotich
Mourning Eros: Hieroglyphic Love And Loss In H.D.'S Helen In Egypt, Shauna Karine Dorotich
Theses : Honours
H.D. and Lacan both articulate a philosophy of love that exists beyond the sexual relationship. This thesis highlights the concordance between their later writings on love, with a specific focus on Lacan's Book xx; On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972 - 1973 (Encore), and H.D.'s Helen in Egypt. Initially, I address the paradox of erotic love to explicate the way fantasy results in the death of the woman within the sexual relationship. I then argue that a subject must experience a phase of mourning the fantasy of erotic love in order to progress to …
Vision And Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond The Death Of God, Ellen J. Greenham
Vision And Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond The Death Of God, Ellen J. Greenham
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The poetry of Jim Morrison, as opposed to his lyric verse, has been the subject of little critical examination. The aim of this paper is to open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. Through the use of the Greek myth of Oedipus in its entirety, as opposed to the two most universally known events of the adult Oedipus' life, discussion here will attempt to demonstrate that Morrison developed a cohesive, holistic vision of the human condition of existence in the world, and presented a …