Tag Archives: Beowulf

PRINCES IN SCALY ARMOR

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dave

Dragon ladies and water fairies. Fish Maidens, rain mothers and other hybrid critters. Now you see them, now you don’t. These powerful shimmering phenomena of the Chinese imagination reveal themselves but briefly through mist and clouds.Watery nymphs beloved by mortal … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Beowulf, Chinese mythology, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich de la Motte, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hsia Dynasty, J.W. Waterhouse, John Milton, John Milton Comus, John William Waterhouse, King Nereus, Maclise Undine, Nu Kua, Richard Wagner, Undine Danube nymph, William Blake | Leave a comment

STRANGE AFFINITY

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Dave

More than half a decade before Chaplin was to ridicule Hitler’s spectacle of charismatic greatness in the Great Dictator, Walter Benjamin already emphasized the strange affinity between the comedian and the politician. Accordingly, Hitler and Chaplin appear as products of … Continue reading →