Ruth Padel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1211773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Padel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Padel |
| SIGNATURE | PADEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Making Space Speak
Darwin the Writer
Book Review| January 01 2014 Darwin the Writer Levine, George, Darwin the Writer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 189 pp. Ruth Padel Ruth Padel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 147–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2375015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ruth Padel; Darwin the Writer. Common Knowledge 1 Januar…
Metaphors – or Carrying From Home
Whom Gods Destroy
1. Introduction: He First Makes Pt. 1. Language and Timing Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words Ch. 3. God of the Verb Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness Pt. 2. Darkness and Vision Ch. 5. Inner Shadow Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing Ch. 8. True Seeing Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing Pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside Ch. 11. Alienus: Resonances of Mad Wandering…
In and out of Mind
In and Out of the Mind
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within
Mrs Dowland
Archduke
Between Theory and Fiction
Homer's Reader
The reader I have in mind is a poet. My immediate interest is the example he provides of a writer's relationship with her or his reading. My aim is double: to suggest both that Homer illuminates the work of the later poet and that the later poetry can function as an interpretation of Homer which offers even to a scholar valuable ways of reading the epics, especially the Odyssey . Accordingly, I shall usually offer translations both of the modern …
Imagery of the Elsewhere” Two Choral Odes of Euripides
In this paper I approach the relationship between one kind of choral ode and its play, through an analysis of two stasima and less detailed reference to their respective plays. The two odes, Hipp . 732–75 and Hel . 1451–1511, share the theme which has provoked comment on Euripides' use of ‘escapism’ to counteract the supposed reality of his tragedies. I prefer to see the escape-form as a reassertion of the themes and problems of the play in a dif…
In and Out of the Mind
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within
Whom Gods Destroy
1. Introduction: He First Makes Pt. 1. Language and Timing Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words Ch. 3. God of the Verb Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness Pt. 2. Darkness and Vision Ch. 5. Inner Shadow Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing Ch. 8. True Seeing Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing Pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside Ch. 11. Alienus: Resonances of Mad Wandering…
In and out of Mind
Homer's Reader
The reader I have in mind is a poet. My immediate interest is the example he provides of a writer's relationship with her or his reading. My aim is double: to suggest both that Homer illuminates the work of the later poet and that the later poetry can function as an interpretation of Homer which offers even to a scholar valuable ways of reading the epics, especially the Odyssey . Accordingly, I shall usually offer translations both of the modern …
Imagery of the Elsewhere” Two Choral Odes of Euripides
In this paper I approach the relationship between one kind of choral ode and its play, through an analysis of two stasima and less detailed reference to their respective plays. The two odes, Hipp . 732–75 and Hel . 1451–1511, share the theme which has provoked comment on Euripides' use of ‘escapism’ to counteract the supposed reality of his tragedies. I prefer to see the escape-form as a reassertion of the themes and problems of the play in a dif…
Imagery of the Elsewhere” Two Choral Odes of Euripides
In this paper I approach the relationship between one kind of choral ode and its play, through an analysis of two stasima and less detailed reference to their respective plays. The two odes, Hipp . 732–75 and Hel . 1451–1511, share the theme which has provoked comment on Euripides' use of ‘escapism’ to counteract the supposed reality of his tragedies. I prefer to see the escape-form as a reassertion of the themes and problems of the play in a dif…
Homer's Reader
The reader I have in mind is a poet. My immediate interest is the example he provides of a writer's relationship with her or his reading. My aim is double: to suggest both that Homer illuminates the work of the later poet and that the later poetry can function as an interpretation of Homer which offers even to a scholar valuable ways of reading the epics, especially the Odyssey . Accordingly, I shall usually offer translations both of the modern …
Mrs Dowland
Archduke
Between Theory and Fiction
In and Out of the Mind
Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within
In and out of Mind
Whom Gods Destroy
1. Introduction: He First Makes Pt. 1. Language and Timing Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words Ch. 3. God of the Verb Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness Pt. 2. Darkness and Vision Ch. 5. Inner Shadow Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing Ch. 8. True Seeing Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing Pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside Ch. 11. Alienus: Resonances of Mad Wandering…
Metaphors – or Carrying From Home
Darwin the Writer
Book Review| January 01 2014 Darwin the Writer Levine, George, Darwin the Writer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 189 pp. Ruth Padel Ruth Padel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 147–148. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2375015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ruth Padel; Darwin the Writer. Common Knowledge 1 Januar…
Making Space Speak
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