From An Antique Land

Author : Carl S. Ehrlich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742563476

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From an Antique Land by Carl S. Ehrlich Pdf

Many of the world's first written records have been found in the area of the Ancient Near East, in what is today known as the Middle East. While many people are familiar with the ancient Israelite literature recorded in the Hebrew Bible, most Near Eastern literature remains a mystery. From an Antique Land lifts the veil from these fascinating writings, explaining the ancient stories in the context of their cultures. From the invention of writing through the conquest of Alexander the Great, expert scholars examine literature originally written in Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Each chapter includes an overview of the culture, a discussion of literary genres, and descriptions and short analyses of the major literary works. Photos of archaeological remains further illustrate these people and their writings.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307792266

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In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511470755

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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Here is the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley like you've never seen it before. With strange illustrations that breathe a new life into the poem, this book is something different for you to add to your bookshelf.

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bloggers
ISBN : 1596068760

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I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis Pdf

Dust jacket illustration, Ã2018 by Jon Foster.

Author : Mogens Trolle Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317949954

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The Conquest of Assyria by Mogens Trolle Larsen Pdf

The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.

Author : Robert Eisner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0472082205

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Travelers to an Antique Land by Robert Eisner Pdf

Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:600050592

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Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1862071209

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In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop. It was on the roof of a house in Lataifa, a tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants. In the evenings he shut out the bellowing of his fat landlord by turning up the volume of his transistor radio and wrote stories based on what he had seen in the village.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9780143068723

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Dancing In Cambodia & Other Essays by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086791662

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Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547527130

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Incendiary Circumstances by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191554391

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Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 by Nigel Leask Pdf

The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847082220

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In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9780143068730

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The Imam and the Indian by Amitav Ghosh Pdf

The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other.

Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein,Mordechai Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004154728

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India Traders of the Middle Ages by Shelomo Dov Goitein,Mordechai Friedman Pdf

The annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.