The Querulous Nights Of Athena Minerva

Author : Dave Montalbano
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497526906

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The Querulous Nights of Athena Minerva by Dave Montalbano Pdf

On the big screen, Athena Minerva was billed as "the Smartest Woman in the Movie." Behind the scenes and without her cosmetics, Maleva Ouspenskaya - alias Athena Minerva - tries to cope with reality. Is her suffering real? Or is it an exaggeration? Is Athena Minerva being stalked by her former benefactors? Is Maleva Ouspenskay ignoring a trapped memory? "The Querulous Nights of Athena Minerva" is part paranormal mystery, part psychological drama about the life of an independent film actress. Set in Salem, Massachusetts and South Florida, "The Querulous Nights of Athena Minerva" is a gothic terror tale, inspired by current events. This book also includes an essay from the Cave of Cinema Dave, titled "Querulous Nightmares." Cinema Dave writes about his literary and cinematic influences upon his novella. The essay includes two pictures of Cinema Dave strangling two Icons of the Nightmare.

Author : Dave Montalbano
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151692262X

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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations by Dave Montalbano Pdf

"The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" are 13 short stories featuring a Condo Commando, a Stranger on a Pay Phone, a Ballbuster, a Distasteful Revenge, a Massage Nazi, a Certified Psychic Tour Guide, a Tattoo Boy and Sweaty Beer! Seen from the eyes of young Sam Giamatti, "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" presents this individual's rite of passage from proposed happiness to the nectar found in sweaty beer. These 13 tales range from gross to funny; with a few jabs poked at religion, sex and politics. "The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" is deliberately controversial and funny like "Saturday Night Live" used to be.

Author : Catherine Ann White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Mythology
ISBN : UIUC:30112081806082

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The Student's Mythology by Catherine Ann White Pdf

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520935846

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Propertius in Love by Sextus Propertius Pdf

These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.

Author : Martial
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015001600744

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Epigrams from Martial by Martial Pdf

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307817129

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The Book of Evidence by John Banville Pdf

John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer. Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.

Author : D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401132381

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The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin Pdf

The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.

Author : Giovanni Paolo Gallucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791036560798

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Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion' by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Pdf

In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer's Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer's treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci's Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, covering topics that were seen as central to arts education, connoisseurship, patronage, and the wider appreciation of the studia humanitatis in general. The text centres on the relationships between beauty and proportion, macrocosm and microcosm : relationships that were not only essential to the visual arts in the early modern era, but that cut across a range of disciplines - music, physiognomics and humoral readings, astronomy, astrology and cosmology, theology and philosophy, even mnemonics and poetry. In his version of the text, Gallucci expanded the educational potential of the treatise by adding a Preface, a Life of Dürer, and a Fifth Book providing a philosophical framework within which to interpret Dürer's previous sections. This translation is the first to make these original contributions by Gallucci accessible to an English-speaking audience. Gallucci's contributions illuminate the significance of symmetry and proportion in the contemporary education of the early modern era, informing our understanding of the intellectual history of this period, and the development of art theory and criticism. This is a valuable resource to early modern scholars and students alike, especially those specialising in history of art, philosophy, history of science, and poetry. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.

Author : James Russell Lowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKNHN

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A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell Pdf

Author : Maria Lucia Ferruzza
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064856

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Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Maria Lucia Ferruzza Pdf

In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous. Readily available and economical—unlike stone suitable for carving—clay allowed artisans to craft figures of remarkable variety and expressiveness. Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily attest to the prolific coroplastic workshops that supplied sacred and decorative images for sanctuaries, settlements, and cemeteries. Sixty terracottas are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty’s larger collection—life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliqués. In addition to the comprehensive catalogue entries, the publication includes a guide to the full collection of over one thousand other figurines and molds from the region by Getty curator of antiquities Claire L. Lyons. The free online edition of this open-access catalogue, available at www.getty.edu/publications/terracottas/ includes zoomable high-resolution photography and a select number of 360° rotations; the ability to filter the catalogue by location, typology, and date; and an interactive map drawn from the Ancient World Mapping Center and linked to the Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names and Pleiades. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book; CSV and JSON downloads of the object data from the catalogue and the accompanying Guide to the Collection; and JPG and PPT downloads of the main catalogue images.

Author : Sextus Propertius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0192835734

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The Poems by Sextus Propertius Pdf

Of the Greek and Latin love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 B.C.) is one of those who holds the most immediate appeal for the twentieth-century reader. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry, and is analyzed with a tormented but witty grandeur in all its changing moods--from ecstasy to suicidal despair. This study includes English verse translations of his work, along with a chronology, explanatory notes, and a brief bibliography.

Author : Kevin Ingram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319932361

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Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain by Kevin Ingram Pdf

This book examines the effects of Jewish conversions to Christianity in late medieval Spanish society. Ingram focuses on these converts and their descendants (known as conversos) not as Judaizers, but as Christian humanists, mystics and evangelists, who attempt to create a new society based on quietist religious practice, merit, and toleration. His narrative takes the reader on a journey from the late fourteenth-century conversions and the first blood purity laws (designed to marginalize conversos), through the early sixteenth-century Erasmian and radical mystical movements, to a Counter-Reformation environment in which conversos become the advocates for pacifism and concordance. His account ends at the court of Philip IV, where growing intolerance towards Madrid’s converso courtiers is subtly attacked by Spain’s greatest painter, Diego Velázquez, in his work, Los Borrachos. Finally, Ingram examines the historiography of early modern Spain, in which he argues the converso reform phenomenon continues to be underexplored.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4057664591043

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Poems by George Santayana Pdf

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a Spanish and American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was the author who created many popular aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," "Only the dead have seen the end of war," and the definition of beauty as "pleasure objectified". His book of poetry is a source of clever and witty thoughts, where the earthly wisdom takes a harmonious aesthetic shape.

Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226195520

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The Phoenix by Joseph Nigg Pdf

An “insightful cultural history of the mythical, self-immolating bird” from Ancient Egypt to contemporary pop culture by the author of The Book of Gryphons (Library Journal). The phoenix, which rises again and again from its own ashes, has been a symbol of resilience and renewal for thousands of years. But how did this mythical bird come to play a part in cultures around the world and throughout human history? Here, mythologist Joseph Nigg presents a comprehensive biography of this legendary creature. Beginning in ancient Egypt, Nigg’s sweeping narrative discusses the many myths and representations of the phoenix, including legends of the Chinese, where it was considered a sacred creature that presided over China’s destiny; classical Greece and Rome, where it appears in the writings of Herodotus and Ovid; medieval Christianity, in which it came to embody the resurrection; and in Europe during the Renaissance, when it was a popular emblem of royals. Nigg examines the various phoenix traditions, the beliefs and tales associated with them, their symbolic and metaphoric use, and their appearance in religion, bestiaries, and even contemporary popular culture, in which the ageless bird of renewal is employed as a mascot and logo. “An exceptional work of scholarship.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248927606

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The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione Pdf