An Elegy Of Heroes

Author : Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783088980

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The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley by Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

Byron’s and Shelley’s experimentation with the possibilities and pitfalls of poetic heroism unites their work. The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley traces the evolution of the poet-hero in the work of both poets, revealing that the struggle to find words adequate to the poet’s imaginative vision and historical circumstance is their central poetic achievement. Madeleine Callaghan explores the different types of poetic heroism that evolve in Byron’s and Shelley’s poetry and drama. Both poets experiment with, challenge and embrace a variety of poetic forms and genres, and this book discusses such generic exploration in the light of their developing versions of the poet-hero. The heroism of the poet, as an idea, an ideal and an illusion, undergoes many different incarnations and definitions as both poets shape distinctive and changing conceptions of the hero throughout their careers.

Author : K. S. Villoso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 177523567X

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An Elegy of Heroes by K. S. Villoso Pdf

The Empire of Dageis' quest for magic has left a trail of shattered homes and lost kingdoms. In the cold wake of grief, those left behind must learn to pick up the pieces. A character-driven epic fantasy following the footsteps of Robin Hobb. Book Geeks' Uncompromised Top Books of 2017 The Weatherwax Report Top 10 Indie Tome and Tankard's Best of 2017 Nominated for Best Self-Published/Independent Novel of 2017 for r/fantasy's Stabby Awards Nominated for Best Novel of 2017 for r/fantasy's Stabby Awards After his friend is killed during a botched mission, the mercenary Kefier is chased down by former associates for the crime. Already once branded a murderer, fate seems to continue to frown on him when he comes face-to-face with his friend's sister: Sume, a young woman reeling from her own string of bad luck. As one flees from the past and the other runs to it, they find themselves embroiled in a plot to restore a magical beast to life using children as sustenance. In the meantime, the young, arrogant merchant Ylir takes a special interest in Kefier while he battles with a powerful mage, one whose name has been long forgotten in legend. At the crux of their conflict is that same, terrible creature with one eye, cast from the womb of a witch, with powers so immense whoever possesses it holds the key to bring the continent to its knees. Come and discover K.S. Villoso's debut fantasy series, which has been called "ambitious," "remarkably solid," and "expertly set up."

Author : J.W. Buel
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : 9785875112867

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Heroes of the Dark Continent by J.W. Buel Pdf

Author : Kent Gramm
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0253108608

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November by Kent Gramm Pdf

It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. For Gramm, the century that began with Lincoln's address and ended with the assassinations of the 1960s saw the destruction of the 'modern' world and with it America's sense of purpose. The book reflects on the November anniversaries of public events such as the Armistice that ended World War One, Kristallnacht, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the death of C. S. Lewis, the first major battle of the Vietnam War, and the publication of Robert F. Kennedy's To Seek a Newer World, and also on private events in Gramm's family history, provide the occasions for Gramm's meditations on public and private heroism, on modernism's hopes and postmodern despair. In November, he asks us to seek a path toward the 'new birth of freedom' that Lincoln envisioned at Gettysburg. "The month begins with things that perish. But ultimately, November is a journey of hope, as was Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg. So too I will journey to Gettysburg in these pages. Like Lincoln's fellow citizens, I go there to assuage personal grief, to find answers; and I hope, for me as for them, that my personal sorrows become a vehicle for larger answers and a larger purpose. Lincoln addressed their grief, why not mine; he gave his generation purpose, why not ours."

Author : Cóilín Parsons,Coilin Parsons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198767701

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The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature by Cóilín Parsons,Coilin Parsons Pdf

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, arguing that the roots of Irish modernism lie in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571254583

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An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah Pdf

A woman in a township in Zimbabwe is surrounded by throngs of dusty children but longs for a baby of her own; an old man finds that his job making coffins at No Matter Funeral Parlour brings unexpected riches; a politician's widow quietly stands by at her husband's funeral watching his colleagues bury an empty coffin. Petina Gappah's characters may have ordinary hopes and dreams, but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars; a country expected to have only four presidents in a hundred years; and a place where people know exactly what will be printed in the one and only daily newspaper because the news is always, always good. In her spirited debut collection, Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah brings us the resilience and inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe's regime. Despite their circumstances, the characters in An Elegy for Easterly are more than victims; they are all too human, with as much capacity to inflict pain as they have to endure it. They struggle with larger issues common to all people everywhere: failed promises, unfulfilled dreams and the yearning for something to anchor them to life.

Author : Pierre Brunel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317387138

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Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes by Pierre Brunel Pdf

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the modern age throughout literature, whether fiction, poetry or drama. Essays on classical figures, as well as later myths, explore the origin, development and various incarnations of their subjects. Alongside entries on western archetypes, are analyses of non-European myths from across the world, including Africa, China, Japan, Latin America and India. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of literature, history and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating world of mythology. A detailed bibliography and index are included. ‘The Companion provides a fine interpretive road map to Western culture’s use of archetypal stories.’ Wilson Library Review ‘It certainly is a comprehensive volume... extremely useful.’ Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW7RLW

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A Hero of the Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willem Pieter Gerritsen,A. G. van Melle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157807

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A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes by Willem Pieter Gerritsen,A. G. van Melle Pdf

"The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027083207

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Centuria Mirabilis: Or, the Hundred Heroes of the British Plutarch, who Have Flourished Since the Reformation, Etc. [By Francis Wrangham.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amar Singh,Shipra Tholia,Pravin K Patel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000462586

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The Hero and Hero-Making Across Genres by Amar Singh,Shipra Tholia,Pravin K Patel Pdf

This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are constructed across genres, mediums, and traditions. The essays in this volume present fresh perspectives for readers to conceptualize the myriad possibilities the term ‘Hero’ brings with itself. They examine the making and unmaking of the heroes across literary, visual and social cultures —in religious spaces and in classical texts; in folk tales and fairy tales; in literature, as seen in Heinrich Böll’s Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Thomas Brüssig’s Heroes like Us, and in movies, like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and in the short film like Dean Potter's When Dogs Fly. The volume also features nuanced takes on intersectional feminist representations in hero movies; masculinity in sports biopics; taking everyday heroes from the real to the reel, among others key themes. A stimulating work that explores the mechanisms that ‘manufacture’ heroes, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, film studies, media studies, literary and critical theory, arts and aesthetics, political sociology and political philosophy.

Author : H. Munro Chadwick,Nora K. Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108016148

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The Growth of Literature by H. Munro Chadwick,Nora K. Chadwick Pdf

First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical context and examining similarities between them. The authors discuss both ancient and recent texts, illustrating the connections within each group and considering the question of whether all literary growth is influenced by common factors. Praised on publication as ' ... a work that is not, probably could not be, superseded' (International Journal of Comparative Sociology), the book remains a benchmark for those studying comparative literature or the history of literary criticism. Volume 1 analyses a range of medieval British and Icelandic poetry and sagas, drawing analogies with the literature of early Greece and focusing particularly on the concept of heroic literature.

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813140834

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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture by Paul A. Cantor Pdf

“Analyzes how ideas about economics and political philosophy find their way into everything from Star Trek to Malcolm in the Middle.” —Wall Street Journal Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? In this groundbreaking work, Paul A. Cantor—whose previous book, Gilligan Unbound, was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times—explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other proponents of freedom, Cantor contrasts the classical liberal vision of America?particularly its emphasis on the virtues of spontaneous order?with the Marxist understanding of the “culture industry” and the Hobbesian model of absolute state control. The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture concludes with a discussion of the impact of 9/11 on film and television, and the new anxieties emerging in contemporary alien-invasion narratives: the fear of a global technocracy that seeks to destroy the nuclear family, religious faith, local government, and other traditional bulwarks against the absolute state.

Author : Andrew Carpenter
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1859183549

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Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland by Andrew Carpenter Pdf

The poets who wrote these verses, otherwise unknown men and women from the worlds of the Old English and native Irish, or visitors or settlers newly arrived from England, emerge from the pages of this book as sardonic observers of the dangerous times in which they lived, and as writers of originality, freshness and, sometimes, of wit and ingenuity."

Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863297

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The Hero of the Waverley Novels by Alexander Welsh Pdf

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive hero"--the protagonist who is acted upon by outside forces--he shows how Scott became such a powerful influence for nineteenth-century literature and history. Welsh has updated his book with an essay on history and revolution in Old Mortality, another on repression and the social contract in the novels, and an afterword on the contrast of styles. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.