... change of character. However, there are also Christian elements in the early English literature as well. Christian elements are present in "Christian poetry that drew inspiration from the Bible or lives of saint and dwelt on heroic deeds performed by great individuals heroic lays [which] praise the ... never shirks .It is in the battle that the mettle of the epic hero is tested" (Jokinen 1996). An example of Christian poetry might be The Dream of the Rood, where the heroic tradition is visible. Through the rhetorical device of prosopopeia the cross presents Christ as ... mythological "b...

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... He was also associated with mental and moral illumination, or the functions that distinguish and clarify. Apollo sponsors similar artistic fields such as epic poetry and statuaries. Dionysus was the god of wine and vegetation and he taught humans how to cultivate grapevines and produce wine. As a result he ... is also connected with vitality and cycles and sponsors music and lyric poetry. In Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy the terms Apollinian and Dionysian are used to designate the two central principles in Greek culture whose figurative marriage resulted in the metaphorical...

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... modern scholars Travis and Barlowe who point out that by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can ... remind us all of the oppressive discursive practices involved in gender politics" (pp. 50). This type of consideration of the myth in terms of its modern application ultimately results in an understanding that it is not a story of clear-cut or unambiguous stereotypes. Instead, it offers an ....

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