Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis Tapa dura - 2015

Nora Clark is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the European University Cyprus, Nicosia. Her thematic areas of research and publication include Romanticism and its broad literary culture; evolution and heritage within the Eastern Mediterranean; Byronism and the Near East; Latin poets and Cyprus; and Near Eastern travel writing and retelling of the 16th-19th centuries. More specifically, with regard to Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis, her research focuses on the language and the literature of topoi; the evocation of mythic voices and expressionistic literary motifs in myth and religion; theories of myth and mimesis in luminosity; scope and depth in the reception of goddess myth; and translation studies and prose poetry in translation, with regard to artistic form and the migration of symbolic texts alongside the evolution of European and global culture.