Locus Amoenus

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Corvos is located in the southeast of Ilsabard, near Bozja and across a strait from the island of Thavnair. Like much of southern Ilsabard, Corvos is a warm, temperate climate with fertile farmland. Labyrinthos's artificial environment is based on Corvos. My work uses the process of paper-cutting as a way to mediate and meditate upon history, collective memory, and the interpenetrating layers that constitute a locality. This process initially started out of necessity instead of desire—at the onset of my art-making practice, it was one of the few mediums I could afford to do. But out of economic considerations, it has grown into a practice of concept as much as cutting—liberating the material to become an arbiter of meaning. The Machine of the World is presented as the spectacle unique, divine, seen by "corporeal eyes". In the words of literary historian António José Saraiva, "it is one of the supreme successes of Camões", "the spheres are transparent, luminous, all of them are seen at the same time with equal clarity; they move, and the movement is perceptible, although the visible surface is always the same. To be able to translate this by the "painting that talks" is to achieve one of the highest points in universal literature." Corvos is the home to a sword style called the Unyielding Blade, the secrets of which are only passed down from master to pupil. Machado, Antonio, Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas, edición de Geoffrey Ribbans, Madrid, Cátedra, 1990.

Peter L. Smith, ‘“ Lentus in Umbra”: A Symbolic Pattern in Vergil’s “Eclogues”’, Phoenix 19.4 (1965), 303. Smith states, ‘shade, in brief, was a rather emotional concept, which might carry either positive or negative connotations’.

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The episode, usually known as "of Inês de Castro", is one of the most famous of Os Lusíadas (canto iii, stanzas 118–135). [4] It is normally classified as a lyric, thus distinguishing it from the more common war episodes. The episode discusses destiny, and leads the action to its tragic end, even something close to the coir ( apostrophes).

The locus amoenus: the strophes that come after strophe 52 of Canto IX, and some of the main parts that appear from strophe 68 to 95 describe the scenery where the love encountered between the sailors and the Nymphs take place. The poet also talks about the fauna that live there and of fruits produced instantly. It is portrayed as a paradise. Camp Cloudtop - Camp Dragonhead - The Dusk Vigil - Dzemael Darkhold - Falcon's Nest - First Dicasterial Observatorium of Aetherial and Astrological Phenomena - The Convictory - The Steel Vigil - The Stone Vigil - Whitebrim Front Piénsese como perfecto ejemplo de estas dos realidades en el cuadro del Bosco El jardín de las delicias : en él, se puede ver al ser humano atrapado entre los dos grandes mundos cristianos, es decir, el cielo y la tierra, el pecado y la gracia, la salvación o la condena; en fin: entre el locus amoenus idílico y el locus amoenus apócrifo. Aldenard - Vylbrand - Othard - Ilsabard - Meracydia - Thavnair - The Cieldalaes - The Pearl - Mazlaya - Tural - EurekaThe poem consists of ten cantos, each with a different number of stanzas (1102 in total). It is written in the decasyllabic ottava rima, which has the rhyme scheme ABABABCC, and contains a total of 8816 lines of verse. Sean Lawrence, ‘Listening to Lavinia: Emmanuel Levina’s Saying and Said in Titus Andronicus’ in Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo and Jens Zimmerman, eds, Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010), 62. The speech that Jupiter uses to start the meeting is a finished piece of oratory. It opens with an exordium (1st strophe), in which, after an original welcome, Jupiter briefly defines the subject. This is followed, in the ancient rhetorical fashion, by the narration (the past shows that the intention of the Fados is the same one that the orator presented). There is then a confirmation of suggestions already put forth in the narration of the 4th strophe. This episode then ends with two strophes of peroration, where Jupiter appeals to the benevolence of the gods concerning the sons of Lusus, with Jupiter's speech eventually settling the debate. Many Shakespearean critics discuss points of similarity with Ovid, and, like Jonathan Bate, I suggest that Ovid and Shakespeare share ‘an interest above all else in human psychology, particularly the psychology of desire in its many varieties; the transformations wrought by the extremes of emotion’. 1 The locus amoenus is an example of a textual space depicting an idealized landscape which is used to facilitate exploration of the boundaries of human emotion and desire. Despite differences between Metamorphoses and Titus Andronicus, I aim to show that the idea driving Shakespeare’s sinister revision of the locus amoenus is, in fact, Ovidian in origin. The concept of a sometimes ambiguous ‘pleasant place’ in Ovid’s practice acts specifically as a topos through which to explore emotional excess leading to fundamental, often violent, transformations of the self and indeed the pleasant place. After briefly exploring how Ovid reinvigorated the locus amoenus I turn to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, 2 where the connotations of a wood, superficially ‘ amoenus’ but in fact ‘ violens’, are radically remodelled and even undercut. The setting provides Shakespeare with a dramatic context in which the raw, defining antagonisms and conflicts pervading the play are clarified, come to a head and are augmented. Keywords

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the function of the locus amoenus is inverted, to form the "locus terribilis". Instead of offering a respite from dangers, it is itself usually the scene of violent encounters. [6] Medieval [ edit ] Robin L. Bott, ‘“O, Keep Me From Their Worse Than Killing Lust”: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus’, in Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 202.The Catual sees a number of paintings that depict significant figures and events from Portuguese history, all of which are detailed by the author. Bacchus appears in a vision to a Muslim priest in Samorin's court and convinces him that the explorers are a threat. The priest spreads the warnings among the Catuals and the court, prompting Samorin to confront da Gama on his intentions. Da Gama insists that the Portuguese are traders, not buccaneers. The king then demands proof from da Gama's ships, but when he tries to return to the fleet, da Gama finds that the Catual, who has been corrupted by the Muslim leaders, refuses to lend him a boat at the harbor and holds him prisoner. Da Gama manages to get free only after agreeing to have all of the goods on the ships brought to shore to be sold.

In some works, such gardens also have overtones of the regenerative powers of human sexuality [3] marked out by flowers, springtime, and goddesses of love and fertility. [4] History [ edit ] Classical [ edit ] Modern-day Arcadia I discuss how the model is used by Chaucer in his work The Book of the Duchess in Bríd Phillips, ‘Chaucer’s Reworking of the Ovidian Locus Amoenus’, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, Volume 19.2, Special Edition: Receptions (2014), 1–18.Quiroga, Horacio, Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, Barcelona, Literatura Contemporánea Seix Barral, 1985.