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La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.
In narratology, fabula (Russian: фабула, IPA:) refers to the chronological sequence of events within the world of a narrative and syuzhet [1] (Russian: сюжет, IPA: [sʲʊˈʐɛt] ⓘ) equates to the sequence of events as they are presented to the reader.
The central figure was a frequent theme for the artist (he had painted it a few years earlier as El Soplón for example), drawn from a story in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia. The painting is probably a moralising warning about the consequences of lust, the ember bursting into flame symbolising sexual arousal, and the monkey and the ...
Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, but the reputed son of Amphitryon; Juno, sister and wife of Jupiter, and queen of heaven; Chorus (of Thebans) Amphitryon, husband of Alcmena
Fabula may refer to: Fabula, Latin word for a fable; Fabula, Latin word for a play (see Theatre of ancient Rome) Fabula atellana, Attelan farce; Fabula palliata, Roman comedy in a Greek setting; Fabula togata, Roman comedy in a Roman setting; Fabula crepidata, Roman tragedy in a Greek setting; Fabula praetexta, Roman tragedy in a Roman setting
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among ...
Most of his children's books were set in the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ("Yellow Woodpecker Farm" or "Yellow Woodpecker Ranch"), a small farm in the countryside, and featured the elderly ranch owner Dona Benta ("Mrs. Benta"), her two grandchildren – a girl, Lúcia ("Lucia") who is always referred to only by her nickname, Narizinho ("Little Nose", because she had a turned-up nose) and a boy ...
In 1967, she taught Curso de Desarrollo Comunitario at the Instituto León XIII de Madrid. And, in 1976, she participated in the Seminario Museología y Arte with professor Donald B. Goddall, under the auspices of The Southern Consortium for International Education , at the ICDA, Santo Domingo.