A Mythic Heroine in Der Rosenkavalier

Performing Feminine Aging: The Marschallin’s Body in <i>Der Rosenkavalier</i>

This paper applies theories from gerontology to analyze the music and text from Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Der Rosenkavalier (1911) in order to examine the Marschallin’s attitude towards her aging female body. After illustrating the signifiers that code the Marschallin’s body as feminine, this paper incorporates Chris Gilleard’s idea from gerontology, that embracing feminine se...

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Distant Episodes: A Briefing On Travels Mythic and Mundane

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...

The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction

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A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web

development of new markets and products. As globalization shrinks the world marketplace, corporations are forced to seek both new customers and products to sell. Commodification is the process of transforming objects, ideas and even people into merchandise. The recent growth of the World Wide Web has caught the attention of the corporate world, and they are attempting to convert a free-share-ba...