Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel 1889-1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic, b. Paris. A leading Christian existentialist, he became a Roman Catholic in 1929. He called himself a "concrete philosopher," indicating a reaction to his early idealism. He saw philosophy not as formulation of a system but rather as a personal reflection on the human situation. He held that the philosopher must be engagé, or personally involved, because existence and the human person are more significant than any abstraction. Involvement must be with other persons. To counter the impersonality of the mechanistic modern world and to recall man to an awareness of the mystery of being, Marcel spoke of the development of the individual in person-to-person dialogue. Human existence finds its earthly satisfaction in a God-centered communion of persons that is characterized by mutual fidelity and hope. His chief works include Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935), The Mystery of Being (1950), Presence and Immortality (1959), and a collection of essays, Philosophy of Existentialism (1961). His best-known plays are Un Homme de Dieu (1925) and Le Chemin de Crete (1936).
Bibliography: See his Tragic Wisdom and Beyond (tr. 1973); studies by S. Cain (1963, repr. 1979), J. B. O'Malley (1967), and K. T. Gallagher (1975).
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Political seductions: the show of war in Byron's Sardanapalus.(Lord Byron)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; IN THE PREFACE to his play Sardanapalus (1822), Byron claims that...like Byron's fictional ruler, Sardanapalus, attempt to represent themselves...hands have wrought." (7) Sardanapalus performs this desecration of...
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Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...exclusively textual figure of performance as it is articulated in Sardanapalus, another of Byron's historical dramas. Owing to considerations...still prevalent form of censorship that Marino Faliero and Sardanapalus apparently avoid by proje cting themselves as closet dramas...
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The Orient on the Victorian Stage
Magazine article from: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...praised a new production of Byron's Sardanapalus, under the direction of Edmund Kean...performed a national duty by staging Sardanapalus . . . [he] implied that his production of Sardanapalus was prompted by his desire to familiarize...
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Byron's Historical Dramas. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...historical dramas, Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and The Two Foscari, is more notable...concerns--for example, the relation of Sardanapalus's world to that of Cleopatra's...presented as a historical background to Sardanapalus, but it is not detailed enough to...
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David Ray. The Death of Sardanapolus & Other Poems of the Iraq Wars.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Confrontation; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...specimen, continues in The Death of Sardanapalus. Listen to the echoes of these lines...Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus and in Mike Romoth's contemporary Sardanapalus in Guernica. Diogenes carried a lit...
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Delacroix: Leading light of the French romantic movement
Magazine article from: USA Today; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...at Chios" (1824), "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827), and "Liberty Leading...Greek independence. "The Death of Sardanapalus," perhaps Delacroix's most notorious...was inspired by Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus about a hedonistic Assyrian king who...
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Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...is Delacroix's canvas The Death of Sardanapalus (1827), reproduced on the title...the painting in question depicts not Sardanapalus's death, which would follow upon...Burke's behalf (p. 65), and as Sardanapalus himself ought surely to have protested...
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Delacroix: Leading Light of the French Romantic Movement.(Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...at Chios" (1824), "The Death of Sardanapalus" (1827), and "Liberty Leading...Greek independence. "The Death of Sardanapalus," perhaps Delacroix's most notorious...was inspired by Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus about a hedonistic Assyrian king who...
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Song of the Orient
Magazine article from: Opera News; 2/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...abounded in contemporary literature. Works such as Byron's Sardanapalus (1821) and Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh (1817) were not...Eugene Delacroix' opulently savage painting The Death of Sardanapalus (1827-28) and Victor Hugo's vivid lyrics in Les Orientales...
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Books: Byron instead of Vietnam A new volume of lectures gives us Isaiah Berlin in his own words.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Corsair and Manfred, with no place left, in practice or theory, for the Byron of Beppo or Don Juan or Sardanapalus. Indeed, Sardanapalus makes his entry in Berlin's transposition as some recreated Lara and not as the king of peace, the...
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Sardanapalus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sardanapalus , in the Persica of Ctesias , an Assyrian monarch who lived in great...court to death. Byron wrote a tragedy on the theme. The identity of Sardanapalus is a complete mystery, as the facts given in the legend certainly do...
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Assurbanipal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...expenditures in wars to preserve the state contributed somewhat to its collapse. Assurbanipal is probably the Asnappar or Osnapper of Ezra 4.10. He is identified with, but only faintly resembles, the Sardanapalus of the Greeks.
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Orientalism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Greek revolt (like most Romantics, he took the Greek, anti-Turkish, side) or the death of the ancient Assyrian ruler, Sardanapalus. Oriental elements played several important roles in European creative arts. Musicians from Ludwig van Beethoven (1770...
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Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...for violence. Among the dozen paintings Delacroix submitted to the Salon of 1827-1828, the immense, baroque Death of Sardanapalus, based on a theme by Byron, is remarkable for its theatrical fervor and luxuriant color. Liberty Leading the People...
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Delacroix, Eugène
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...inspiration in his work for several years; his next major Salon success, for example, the violent and erotic Death of Sardanapalus (1827, Louvre), was based on a play by Byron. He was also influenced by contemporary English painting; his portrait...
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