Song Of The Sirens

Author : Mary Weber
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781401690427

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Siren's Song by Mary Weber Pdf

“The realization hits: We’re not going to win. It’s why I couldn’t defeat Draewulf in Bron—because this power was never mine anyway. I drop my arms and let the energy die off. And turn around to Face Eogan." After a fierce battle with Draewulf, Nym barely escaped with her life. Now, fleeing the scorched landscape of Tulla, her storm-summoning abilities are returning; only . . . the dark power is still inside her. Broken and bloodied, Nym needs time to recover, but when the full scope of the shapeshifter’s horrific plot is revealed, the strong-willed Elemental must race across the Hidden Lands and warn the other kingdoms before Draewulf’s final attack. From the crystalline palaces of Cashlin to the legendary Valley of Origin, Nym scrambles to gather an army. But even if she can, will she be able to uncover the secret to defeating Draewulf that has eluded her people for generations? With a legion of monsters approaching, and the Hidden Lands standing on the brink of destruction, the stage is set for a battle that will decide the fate of the world. This time, will the Siren’s Song have the power to save it?

Author : Pietro Pucci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822630591

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The Song of the Sirens by Pietro Pucci Pdf

In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.

Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866717

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Siren Songs by Mary Ann Smart Pdf

It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. The collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the "trouser role" as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of fin-de-siècle Paris, the phenomenon of opera seria's "absent mother" as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a "hystericized voice" in Verdi's Don Carlos, and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. The contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.

Author : Kelly Powell
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534438095

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Songs from the Deep by Kelly Powell Pdf

A girl searches for a killer on an island where deadly sirens lurk just beneath the waves in this “twisty, atmospheric story that grips readers like a siren song” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The sea holds many secrets. Moira Alexander has always been fascinated by the deadly sirens who lurk along the shores of her island town. Even though their haunting songs can lure anyone to a swift and watery grave, she gets as close to them as she can, playing her violin on the edge of the enchanted sea. When a young boy is found dead on the beach, the islanders assume that he’s one of the sirens’ victims. Moira isn’t so sure. Certain that someone has framed the boy’s death as a siren attack, Moira convinces her childhood friend, the lighthouse keeper Jude Osric, to help her find the real killer, rekindling their friendship in the process. With townspeople itching to hunt the sirens down, and their own secrets threatening to unravel their fragile new alliance, Moira and Jude must race against time to stop the killer before it’s too late—for humans and sirens alike.

Author : Ernest K. Gann
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574090925

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Song of the Sirens by Ernest K. Gann Pdf

Song of the Sirens is a classic. Newsweek

Author : Lillian Eileen Doherty
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0472105973

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Siren Songs by Lillian Eileen Doherty Pdf

A feminist critique of the Odyssey

Author : Judith Peraino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520215870

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Listening to the Sirens by Judith Peraino Pdf

Judith Perraino investigates how music has been used throughout history to call into question norms of gender and sexuality. Beginning with an examination of the mythology surrounding the Sirens, she goes on to consider musical creatures, gods, humans and music-addled listeners.

Author : Linda Austern,Inna Naroditskaya
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253112079

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Music of the Sirens by Linda Austern,Inna Naroditskaya Pdf

Whether referred to as mermaid, usalka, mami wata, or by some other name, and whether considered an imaginary being or merely a person with extraordinary abilities, the siren is the remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book, co-edited by a historical musicologist and an ethnomusicologist, brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674244191

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy Pdf

What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Author : Mary Weber
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781401690366

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Storm Siren by Mary Weber Pdf

The award-winning novel that started it all. “A riveting tale from start to finish. Between the simmering romance, the rich and inventive fantasy world, and one seriously jaw-dropping finale, readers will clamor for the next book—and I'll be at the front of the line!” —Marissa Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of the Lunar Chronicles In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled. “I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.” As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth—meaning, she shouldn’t even exist. Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war or be killed. Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she’s being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons. But what if she doesn’t want to be the weapon they’ve all been waiting for? Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, Storm Siren is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win. “Intense and intriguing. Fans of high stakes fantasy won't be able to put it down.” —CJ Redwine, New York Times bestselling author of the Ravenspire series “Mary Weber has created a fascinating, twisted world. Storm Siren sucked me in from page one—I couldn’t stop reading! This is a definite must-read, the kind of book that kept me up late into the night turning the pages!” —Lindsay Cummings, author of the Androma Saga “A riveting read! Mary Weber's rich world and heartbreaking heroine had me from page one. You're going to fall in love with this love story.” —Josephine Angelini, internationally bestselling author of the Starcrossed trilogy “Elegant prose and intricate world-building twist into a breathless cyclone of a story that will constantly keep you guessing. More please!” —Shannon Messenger, author of the Sky Fall series

Author : Antonio Salinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1944193022

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Siren's Song by Antonio Salinas Pdf

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107192652

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996*
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : OCLC:49993938

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Song of the Sirens by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anne Ursu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439153468

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The Siren Song by Anne Ursu Pdf

Inside an ordinary middle school in an ordinary city, a small redheaded eighth grader is doing something very ordinary, indeed. Ever since Charlotte Mielswetzski and her cousin, Zee, saved the world, life has been rather ordinary. Ordinary, that is, if you call being ultramegagrounded (in Charlotte's case) or treated as if you might fall to pieces (in Zee's case) ordinary. Either way, heroes deserve better. Of course, no one knows Charlotte and Zee are heroes. It's not like they can simply announce that Greek myths are real or proclaim they have returned from the Underworld, where they rescued all of mankind from Philonecron, a deranged demigod with delusions of grandeur. Instead, they are forced to keep this terrible knowledge to themselves, and are stuck in a state of extraordinary ordinariness. But things aren't quite as ordinary as they seem. For Philonecron is the grandson of Poseidon, and you don't mess with the progeny of the second most powerful god in the universe. And Philonecron himself isn't so happy about having all of his delicious plans thwarted by mortal children. He wants revenge, and with his grandfather to help him, he is going to get what he wants. For Charlotte and Zee, their not-so-ordinary lives are about to be disrupted once again. This time it's not the world they must save -- it's themselves. In the thrilling second installment of the Cronus Chronicles trilogy, author Anne Ursu brings her trademark wit to a spectacular adventure on the high seas.

Author : Paul Dini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Catwoman (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1401225713

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Gotham City Sirens by Paul Dini Pdf

In a Gotham City gotten even more dangerous since the Batman has been replaced, a weakened Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn--who says she's definitely over the Joker--join forces against a variety of enemies.