Heroic Worlds

Author : Lawrence Schick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 0879756535

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Heroic Worlds by Lawrence Schick Pdf

This history of role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons explains their evolution and gives complete definitions and descriptions for related game products. Arriving on the scene in 1973, such games caught on rapidly and spawned a thriving industry. These games are regularly played improvisations, with rules that allow for consistent resolution of action, in which heroic characters created by the players battle enemies or solve mysteries. Featuring essays by eighteen top industry designers, Heroic Worlds explains the evolution of role-playing games and their influence on other forms of entertainment. The art and jargon of game design, play, and collection are defined in detail.

Author : E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416949725

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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. Konigsburg Pdf

Amedo moves to a new town with a dream. He wants to discover something and he wants a friend to share his search.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Hero worship
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1Y35

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On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300148626

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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

DIVBased on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and the ways they exert heroic leadership. From the divine and prophetic (Odin and Muhammad) to the poetic (Dante and Shakespeare) to the religious (Luther and Knox) to the political (Cromwell and Napoleon), Carlyle investigates the mysterious qualities that elevate humans to cultural significance. By situating the text in the context of six essays by distinguished scholars that reevaluate both Carlyle’s work and his ideas, David Sorensen and Brent Kinser argue that Carlyle's concept of heroism stresses the hero’s spiritual dimension. In Carlyle’s engagement with various heroic personalities, he dislodges religiosity from religion, myth from history, and truth from “quackery” as he describes the wondrous ways in which these “flowing light-fountains” unlock the heroic potential of ordinary human beings. /div

Author : E.L. Konigsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439106877

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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. Konigsburg Pdf

"ninety percent of who you are is invisible." Amedeo Kaplan seems just like any other new kid who has moved into the town of St. Malo, Florida, a navy town where new faces are the norm. But Amedeo has a secret, a dream: More than anything in the world, he wants to discover something -- a place, a process, even a fossil -- some treasure that no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would also like to discover a true friend to share these things with. William Wilcox seems like an unlikely candidate for friendship: an aloof boy who is all edges and who owns silence the way other people own words. When Amedeo and William find themselves working together on a house sale for Amedeo's eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender, Amedeo has an inkling that both his wishes may come true. For Mrs. Zender's mansion is crammed with memorabilia of her long life, and there is a story to go with every piece. Soon the boys find themselves caught up in one particular story -- a story that links a sketch, a young boy's life, an old man's reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. It's a story that will take them to the edge of what they know about heroism and the mystery of the human heart. Two-time Newbery winner E. L. Konigsburg spins a magnificent tale of art, discovery, friendship, history, and truth.

Author : Scott Gwara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047425021

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Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf by Scott Gwara Pdf

In exploring the identities of foreign fighters seeking glory abroad, this revisionist book challenges the traditional view of Beowulf as a "hero." Beowulf emphasizes the obligations attending excellence and the temptation of power, both personal and civic.

Author : Chris Lowney
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829429824

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Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney Pdf

Leadership Principles for Lasting Success Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One company—the Jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history’s most successful companies.In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.

Author : Brian R. Doak,Brian Doak
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190650872

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Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel by Brian R. Doak,Brian Doak Pdf

Authors from the ancient world rarely used great detail to describe the physical features of characters in their works. When they did mention bodies, they did so with very specific goals in mind. In particular, the bodies of "heroic" figures, such as warriors, kings, and other leaders became loaded sites of meaning for encoding cultural, religious, and political values on a number of fronts. Brian Doak analyzes the way biblical authors described the bodies of some of their most iconic male figures, such as Jacob, the Judges, Saul, and David. These bodies represent not mere individuals-they communicate as national bodies, signaling the ambiguity of Israel's murky pre-history, the division during the period of settlement in the land, and the contest of leading bodies fought between Saul and David. Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel examines the heroic world of ancient Israel within the Hebrew Bible, and shows that ancient Israelite literature operated within and against a world of heroic ideals in its ancient context. The heroic body tells a story of Israel's remembered history in the eventual making of the monarchy, marking a new kind of individual power. Not merely a textual study of the Hebrew Bible in isolation, this book also considers iconography and compares Israelite literature with other ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern materials, illustrating Israel's place among a wider construction of heroic bodies.

Author : Robert Vincent Daniels
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0674964519

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Year of the Heroic Guerrilla by Robert Vincent Daniels Pdf

From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. This book is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval, from the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson to the "cultural revolution" in China and the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Hero worship
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018687293

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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pdf

Author : Lynn Gartrell Levins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333625

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Faulkner's Heroic Design by Lynn Gartrell Levins Pdf

In this discerning study of Faulkner's major novels from Sartoris to The Reivers, Lynn Levins answers the criticism that the fictional world of William Faulkner is not heroic enough. Her study analyzes his heroic design--his rendering of the events of his rural community of Yoknapatawpha against scenes from myth, classical drama, epic poetry, and chivalric and historical romance. In each case Faulkner is not parodying traditional literary modes to focus on the grotesque diminution of legend and myth in Yoknapatawpha County; rather he is writing in As I Lay Dying and Old Man and The Hamlet of the fulfillment of an ethical obligation. When that obligation is met in spite of temptations and difficulties, then the action of Anse Burden or the tall convict or the idiot Ike Snopes approaches heroic proportions. Behind the chivalric framework of the tall convict's epic journey or the identification of Thomas Sutpen as the old Greek tragic hero lies a heroic ideal. By employing such a design Faulkner affirms man's historical continuity and asserts his belief that in the twentieth century the heroic is still possible.

Author : Michael Critzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996546782

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Heroic Inspirations by Michael Critzer Pdf

Author : David Thomas Murphy
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0873385640

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The Heroic Earth by David Thomas Murphy Pdf

In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision of the Versailles settlement and enlarging Germany's living space, geopolitics helped contribute to Nazi imperialism. From the defeat of Germany in 1918 until the rise of National Socialism i9n 1933, theories of geographical determinism enjoyed a broad currency in many fields of German public life. The ancient notion that environmental factors--climate, topography, resource distribution--shape society in significant ways was now applied in a radically determinist fashion to help Germans understand why they had lost the war and what they had to do to regain their place among the Great Powers. Under the rubric of Geopolitik, politicians, teachers, writers and others argued that they key to Germany's past, and the hope for its future, lay in understanding geography's determining impact upon races, cultures, states, and warfare. Theories of geographical determinism shaped German thinking about politics, race, science, education, aesthetics, and many other subjects on the eve of the Nazi era. Challenging traditional historiography, Murphy argues that geopolitics faded in importance after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Author : Carlyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00116311

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Collected works by Carlyle Pdf

Author : Wards Parks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860883

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Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative by Wards Parks Pdf

This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of public contesting. Long recognized as an elemental behavioral paradigm in human consciousness, the contest has only recently emerged as a factor in the formation of Western intellectual traditions and modes of discourse. In presenting the verbal duel as a literary expression of the contest, Ward Parks shows how flyting interfaces words and physical action. He explores the place of flyting in the patterning of culture, both Eastern and Western, from Homeric and Old English martial narratives to current academic debate to such phenomena of popular culture as rap. Parks studies flyting from a comparative standpoint to discover major generic and structural characteristics common to this activity in both its oral and written traditions. Drawing his methodology from such fields as literary criticism, socio-biology, linguistics, and game theory, he begins with an exploration of the nature and structure of contesting as it relates to flyting interactions. He then examines the covert contract formation that binds the verbal and physical aspects of the duel, analyzes the heroic generation of speeches and their dialogic interrelation in the flyting process itself, and illustrates the adaptability of flyting patterns within a wide variety of cultural and ideological settings. Originally published in 1990. 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.