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Croque-Melpomene

figurative artist | transgenerational poetess | daughter of Eros and Thanatos

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  • you ate popcorn in my house of grief | transgenerational poetry
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Author: Croque-Melpomene

Pentalingual idealist of German-Italian descent | figurative artist | transgenerational poetess with three degrees | working in three theatres & a member of three trade unions. I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
The Parable of the Unloved Girl January 21, 2018May 7, 2020
The Duchess of Dead Furniture January 18, 2018May 7, 2020
The Parable of the Girl who had too much Imagination January 18, 2018May 7, 2020
Anaïs Nin: Female Loneliness, Emptiness and the Wandering Man January 18, 2018June 10, 2020
The Parable of the Punished Girl January 18, 2018May 7, 2020
Plato’s ‘Symposium’, Self-love and the 21st Century Body. January 17, 2018May 7, 2020
Dysfunctional Families: Identity Revealed on Canvas, the Matriarchal Household, Artistry as Getaway and Platonic Eroticism in Peter Webber’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ January 7, 2018June 10, 2020
Surviving at all Costs: the Female Abyss and the Domestic Elimination of Patriarchy in William Oldroyd’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ January 5, 2018June 10, 2020
‘Dead Already’: The Comic Side of Sam Mendes’ ‘American Beauty’: Marriage, Performance and Rebellion January 3, 2018June 10, 2020

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