A Death-Defying Love: Versions of the Orpheus Myth
Ultimately, Orpheus doesn’t lose Eurydice because he fails but because life and death are so profoundly incompatible; the story reminds us of the abyss between them....
Ultimately, Orpheus doesn’t lose Eurydice because he fails but because life and death are so profoundly incompatible; the story reminds us of the abyss between them....
Timothy Meyers discusses the various illustrators around the “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” folk tale....
IN THE LATEST edition of our "Fairy Tale Series," four writers evaluate the unusual Norwegian folktale, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, and trace its themes from the original story to retellings just published. GENEVIEVE VALENTINE considers how most ...