Monumental Tales

Author : Jackie Buckle
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780718847937

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Monumental Tales by Jackie Buckle Pdf

Around the world there are thousands of pet statues and memorials with fascinating stories behind them. Some reveal insights into our social history, such as the little brown dog in Battersea that was a focus of suffragette riots. Others have wonderfully quirky origins, like the twenty-three cats of York: sculptures added to buildings designed by a cat-loving architect. Many more reveal tales of courage, loyalty, myth, and legend. From Egyptian cat goddesses and the heroic dogs of war, to search-and-rescue canines on 9/11 and Tombili the Turkish moggy who became an Internet sensation, this book brings together a selection of the most surprising, amusing and illuminating stories, complete with dozens of full-colour photographs. Anyone with an appreciation of pets, the varied roles they play in our lives, and the ways in which our relationships with them have evolved over time, will find much of interest in this book.

Author : Francis Wollaston MOODY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022012959

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The Story of a Monument. A Tale of Clerical Intolerance ... With Illustrations. [Referring to the Action of the Rev. C. Randolph with Regard to a Proposed Monument to the Rev. H. R. Moody in the Chancel of Chartham Church.] by Francis Wollaston MOODY Pdf

Author : Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Wales
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213337210

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Tales and Sketches of Wales by Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Monuments
ISBN : UCAL:C2558852

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The Monumental News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Rolt Brash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11382436

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The Ogam inscribed monuments of the Gaedhill in the British islands; with a dissertation on the Ogam character by Richard Rolt Brash. Ed. by George M. Atkinson by Richard Rolt Brash Pdf

Author : Richard Rolt Brash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Inscriptions, Irish
ISBN : UOM:39015023260832

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The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Island by Richard Rolt Brash Pdf

Author : Elizabeth A. Oyler
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824864538

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Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions by Elizabeth A. Oyler Pdf

Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions investigates some of the most historically important political and social issues raised by the Genpei War (1180-1185). This epic civil conflict, which ushered in Japan’s age of the warriors, is most famously articulated in the monumental narrative Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike). Elizabeth Oyler’s ambitious work lays out the complex interconnections between the numerous variant texts of the Heike and the historical events they describe. But Oyler’s innovative methodology also brings other texts and genres—the Gikeiki, the Soga monogatari, the Azuma kagami, and pieces from the kōwakamai (ballad-dramas) repertoire—into her analysis. Rather than concentrating on individual texts, Oyler focuses on the inter-textual relationships within this larger body of narrative and drama and the collective role of these works in creating and disseminating stories about some of the Genpei War’s most contentious events. In so doing, she works toward a new understanding of the underlying cultural problems of which these tales are symptomatic and which they attempt to address.

Author : Joe Andrew,Robert Reid
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042011351

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Two Hundred Years of Pushkin: Alexander Pushkin : myth and monument by Joe Andrew,Robert Reid Pdf

Puskin's poetry, prose and drama frequently draw upon myths of classical antiquity, myths of modern European culture - grand narratives such as the Don Juan legend and Dante's Inferno - as well as uniquely Russian myths. The contributors to this volume explore these myths from a variety of critical viewpoints and highlight the specific ways in which Pushkin uses myth - among these his recurrent emphasis on the symbolism of monuments and statuary.

Author : Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547663867

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El Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New Mexico by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association Pdf

"El Morro Trails: El Morro National Monument, New Mexico" by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Thomas J. Harvey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806150420

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Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley by Thomas J. Harvey Pdf

The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned. Harvey explores the different ways in which the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural significance. Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making the modern western novel popular, sought freedom from the contemporary world and reimagined the landscape for his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows, Grey erased most of the Navajo inhabitants. This view of the landscape culminated in filmmaker John Ford’s use of Monument Valley as the setting for his epic mid-twentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant of nature untainted by modernization. Tourists continue to flock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have for a century, but the landscapes are most familiar today because of their appearances in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perfume, beer, and sport utility vehicles. Encompassing the history of the Navajo, archaeology, literature, film, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores how these rock formations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the modern identity of the American West—and of the nation itself.

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)
ISBN : UVA:X001644958

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The Bunker Hill Monument, Adams and Jefferson by Daniel Webster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Literature
ISBN : WISC:89063082200

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Baltimore Monument by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Dow Beckham,Florence K. Lentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (Or.)
ISBN : UCBK:C082770322

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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument by Stephen Dow Beckham,Florence K. Lentz Pdf

Author : Janet T. Marquardt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781443809474

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From Martyr to Monument by Janet T. Marquardt Pdf

After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloister. Efforts to preserve, repair, and reuse the remains waxed and waned for a century while historians wrote with regret about the abbey’s demise. In 1927, Kenneth Conant came from Harvard to excavate the site with American funding in order to prepare full-scale reconstructive drawings of the abbey. Conant’s vision of medieval Cluny entered the art-historical canon and placed Cluny at the center of debates about Romanesque architecture and sculptural decoration in Europe. This study follows the discursive history of the site while investigating the role of memory in the construction of the past and the development of the conception of heritage and patrimony in France. FOREWORD BY GILES CONSTABLE AND AVANT-PROPOS D'ERIC PALAZZO "Marquardt’s account of the modern resurrections of medieval Cluny is a riveting one." "...her research urges a rethinking of the modern conceptual structures that guide our study and interpretation of medieval art and culture." "Marquardt meditat[es] on the complex ideas, histories, events, and touristic activities (including the performance of pageants) that contributed to the fashioning of Cluny as a “memory site.” Kathryn L. Brush, University of Western Ontario (Canada)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510018829633

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The Baltimore Literary Monument by Anonim Pdf