Author : Tami Richards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304174970
Heroic Vignettes
Tami Richards
Heroic Vignettes
Heroic Vignettes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Heroic Vignettes book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Early Yiddish Epic
Jerold C. Frakes
Author : Jerold C. Frakes
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815652687
Early Yiddish Epic by Jerold C. Frakes Pdf
Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, Beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale.These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious “epicizing” of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp.
Where Beauty Survived
George Elliott Clarke
Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345812308
Where Beauty Survived by George Elliott Clarke Pdf
A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William Andrew White, the first Black officer (non-commissioned) in the British army—George felt called to live up to the family name. In contrast, his mother's relatives were warm, down-to-earth country folk. Such contradictions underlay much of his life and upbringing—Black and White, country and city, outstanding and ordinary, high and low. With vulnerability and humour, George shows us how these dualities shaped him as a poet and thinker. At the book’s heart is George’s turbulent relationship with his father, an autodidact who valued art, music and books but worked an unfulfilling railway job. Bill could be loving and patient, but he also acted out destructive frustrations, assaulting George’s mother and sometimes George and his brothers, too. Where Beauty Survived is the story of a complicated family, of the emotional stress that white racism exerts on Black households, of the unique cultural geography of Africadia, of a child who became a poet, and of long-kept secrets.
Television in Transition
Shawn Shimpach
Author : Shawn Shimpach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444320688
Television in Transition by Shawn Shimpach Pdf
Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest casestudies, Television in Transition offers studentsof television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challengesof first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, majormedia conglomerates, deregulation, and globalization--all in thespace of twenty years. Examines a return in television programming to actionnarratives with individual (super) heroes intended to navigate thisnew, international, multi-channel universe Explores how television programming "translates" to new spatialgeographies: different nations, cultures, broadcast systems; anddifferent formats, distribution outlets, and screen sizes Looks at the value of a program's "afterlife," the continuedcirculation, repackaging and repurposing of programming beyond itsinitial iteration Blends institutional and textual analyses in casestudies of Highlander: The Series, Smallville, 24,and Doctor Who
Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian
Oscar 'Skip' Booth
Author : Oscar 'Skip' Booth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312682658
Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian by Oscar 'Skip' Booth Pdf
Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity
Maria Truglio
Author : Maria Truglio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351987554
Italian Children’s Literature and National Identity by Maria Truglio Pdf
This book bridges the fields of Children’s Literature and Italian Studies by examining how turn-of-the-century children’s books forged a unified national identity for the new Italian State. Through contextualized close readings of a wide range of texts, Truglio shows how the 19th-century concept of recapitulation, which held that ontogeny (the individual’s development) repeats phylogeny (the evolution of the species), underlies the strategies of this corpus. Italian fairy tales, novels, poems, and short stories imply that the personal development of the child corresponds to and hence naturalizes the modernizing development of the nation. In the context of Italy’s uneven and ambivalent modernization, these narrative trajectories are enabled by a developmental melancholia. Using a psychoanalytic lens, and in dialogue with recent Anglophone Children’s Literature criticism, this study proposes that national identity was constructed via a process of renouncing and incorporating paternal and maternal figures, rendered as compulsory steps into maturity and modernity. With chapters on the heroic figure of Garibaldi, the Orientalized depiction of the South, and the role of girls in formation narratives, this book discloses how melancholic itineraries produced gendered national subjects. This study engages both well-known Italian texts, such as Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and De Amicis’ Heart, and books that have fallen into obscurity by authors such as Baccini, Treves, Gianelli, and Nuccio. Its approach and corpus shed light on questions being examined by Italianists, Children’s Literature scholars, and social and cultural historians with an interest in national identity formation.
The Red Sea
Alexis Wick
Author : Alexis Wick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520285910
The Red Sea by Alexis Wick Pdf
The Red Sea has, from time immemorial, been one of the worldÕs most navigated spaces, in the pursuit of trade, pilgrimage and conquest. Yet this multidimensional history remains largely unrevealed by its successive protagonists. Intrigued by the absence of a holistic portrayal of this body of water and inspired by Fernand BraudelÕs famous work on the Mediterranean, this book brings alive a dynamic Red Sea world across time, revealing the particular features of a unique historical actor. In capturing this heretofore lost space, it also presents a critical, conceptual history of the sea, leading the reader into the heart of Eurocentrism. The Sea, it is shown, is a vital element of the modern philosophy of history. Alexis Wick is not satisfied with this inclusion of the Red Sea into history and attendant critique of Eurocentrism. Contrapuntally, he explores how the world and the sea were imagined differently before imperial European hegemony. Searching for the lost space of Ottoman visions of the sea, The Red Sea makes a deeper argument about the discipline of history and the historianÕs craft.
A Companion to Chivalry
Robert W. Jones,Peter Coss,Peter R. Coss
Author : Robert W. Jones,Peter Coss,Peter R. Coss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273720
A Companion to Chivalry by Robert W. Jones,Peter Coss,Peter R. Coss Pdf
A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.
Where Minds and Matters Meet
Volker Janssen,Amy Bix,Linda Nash
Author : Volker Janssen,Amy Bix,Linda Nash
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289109
Where Minds and Matters Meet by Volker Janssen,Amy Bix,Linda Nash Pdf
The American WestÑwhere such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significanceÑhas been viewed as a frontier of technological innovation. Where Minds and Matters Meet calls attention to the convergence of Western history and the history of technology, showing that the regionÕs politics and culture have shaped seemingly placeless, global technological practices and institutions. Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, the bookÕs essays take the cultural measure of the regionÕs great technological milestones, including San DiegoÕs Panama-California Exposition, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the Sierras, and traffic planning in Los Angeles. Contributors: Amy Bix, Louise Nelson Dyble, Patrick McCray, Linda Nash, Peter Neushul, Matthew W. Roth, Bruce Sinclair, L. Chase Smith, Carlene Stephens, Aristotle Tympas, Jason Weems, Peter Westwick, Stephanie Young
Napoleon's Guard Infantry (2)
Philip Haythornthwaite
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780969817
Napoleon's Guard Infantry (2) by Philip Haythornthwaite Pdf
This title looks at Napoleon's Middle and Young Guard infantry. The seniority of Guard infantry was only established definitely in 1812 by the Guard's chief of personnel, Courtois. The title 'Young Guard' was assigned to the newly-raised regiments in 1809, but the term 'Middle Guard' came into use about 1811. From the beginning the newer guard regiments were committed to action first, the Old Guard, as Napoleon wrote, 'being so precious, one fears to expose them'; thus the Fusiliers-Chasseurs distinguished themselves at Hilsberg whilst the rest of the Guard was kept in reserve. In 1808 the Fusiliers went to Spain, serving at the Madrid rising, Medina and Guadalajara. Philip Haythornwaite examines these troops in a detailed text backed by numerous illustrations including eight full page colour plates by Bryan Fosten.
The Cinema of Eisenstein
David Bordwell
Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000159097
The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell Pdf
The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein theorized montage, presented Soviet realism to the world, and mastered the concept of film epic. Comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated throughout, this classic work deserves to be on the shelf of every serious student of cinema.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus
Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Author : Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004348820
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus by Rebecca Futo Kennedy Pdf
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been revisioned and adapted over the last 2500 years, focusing both on his theatrical reception and his reception in other media and genres.
The Eloquence of Art
Andrea Olsen Lam,Rossitza Schroeder
Author : Andrea Olsen Lam,Rossitza Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351185578
The Eloquence of Art by Andrea Olsen Lam,Rossitza Schroeder Pdf
For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction. His publications transformed the way art historians approach medieval art through his insightful integration of rhetoric, poetry and non-canonical objects into the study of Byzantine art. His ground-breaking studies of Byzantine art that consider the natural world, magic and imperial imagery, among other themes, have redefined the ways medieval art is interpreted. From notable monuments to small-scale and privately used objects, Maguire’s work has guided a generation of scholars to new conclusions about the place of art and its function in Byzantium. In this volume, 23 of Henry Maguire’s colleagues and friends have contributed papers in his honour, resulting in studies that reflect the broad range of his scholarly interests.
The Stone Heart
Leo Harrell Lynn
Author : Leo Harrell Lynn
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532006500
The Stone Heart by Leo Harrell Lynn Pdf
“These words are my only way out of this self-built dungeon. I am not seeking redemption or salvation— I long ago traded God’s grace for pride and praise. This journal is meant for those who still fall for the fairytale of true love, to educate them in the folly behind this mindless faith by revealing the ravages that come from believing in hopes and dreams, in passion and love. My only hope is that readers of this diary discover what I found out too late—that believing in the lie that is true love is a dead end. Maybe then, those who read these words will understand why I threw myself into the restless azure waves 150 feet below my front window. My journal, bound in a cover made from a burlap bag that once held oysters my daddy shucked and ate, lies wedged between two rocks on the cliff ’s edge, so it will not blow over the side and join my body amidst the shells and stones below. I start at the beginning. I tell the truth, even about the lies LEO HARRELL LYNN, in his stunning debut novel, THE STONE HEART, eloquently explores a family’s unsteady quest for love and their place in the world...a timeless tale of love, loss, and longing, and the lengths one will go to fight the long loneliness...
The City in Mind
James Howard Kunstler
Author : James Howard Kunstler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743227230
The City in Mind by James Howard Kunstler Pdf
This title takes an in-depth look at the history, development and state of architectural and societal success of cities, including London, Rome, Berlin, Paris and Mexico City.
