The Shield Of Achilles

Author : Andrew Sprague Becker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0847679977

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The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis by Andrew Sprague Becker Pdf

In The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis, Becker explores how Homeric poetry shapes its own reception: how Homer's reaction to a visual image creates his audience's response to a literary description. Becker also enters into a fiercely raging literary debate about the modernist, self-conscious elements of Homeric narrative.

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691218656

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The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden Pdf

"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, accompanied critical commentary by Alan Jacobs: a preface to provide historical and publishing context; a longer introduction to orient the reader to the poems themselves; and detailed notes on words or passages in need of clarification for contemporary readers. Jacobs, who has edited two previous critical editions of Auden's poetry, argues that this was the most important single collection of poems Auden published, and also the most coherent of his collections. The two poetic sequences, "Bucolics" and "Horae Canonicae," bookend a remarkable set of lyrics, with "The Shield of Achilles" itself at the heart. One of Auden's last long poems, it refers to moment in The Iliad in which Thetis, mother of Achilles, asks Hephaestus to forge a shield for her son. Auden re-imagines how the shield of Achilles would look in the modern age, when the rules of war and the role of the hero have been rewritten. While the volume was widely praised, it is now out of print (although the title poem is included in larger collections of Auden's poetry). A critical edition allows readers to better understand and appreciate one of Auden's most important later poetic works, written in what Jacobs describes as "a poetic idiom that differs quite significantly from what anyone else at the time was doing. . . . it is, in a vital sense, public poetry and it can be enjoyed, understood, and profited from. This edition is meant to make that enjoyment, understanding, and profit easier of access.""--

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : London, Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4101331

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The Shield of Achilles by Wystan Hugh Auden Pdf

Author : Horace Gregory
Publisher : New York, Harcourt, Brace [1944]
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3386259

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The Shield of Achilles by Horace Gregory Pdf

Author : Philip Bobbitt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141007557

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The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt Pdf

This text sets out to retinterpret the history of the 20th century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or cold competition lasted from the outbreak of World War 1 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Author : Kathleen Vail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0999162187

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Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles by Kathleen Vail Pdf

Details the author's reconstruction of the shield of Achilles, using Homer as her guide in the creative process.

Author : Josef Hrdlička,Mariana Machová
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024649399

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Things in Poems by Josef Hrdlička,Mariana Machová Pdf

In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From there, the focus shifts to things and objects in the poetry of the twentieth and the twenty-first century, examining the work of Czech, Polish, and Russian poets alongside other key figures such as Rilke, Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Muldoon. Along the way, the reader gets an introduction to key terms and phrases that have been associated with things in the course of poetic history, such as ekphrasis, objective lyricism, and hyperobjects.

Author : S. A. Paipetis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402087844

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Science and Technology in Homeric Epics by S. A. Paipetis Pdf

In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.

Author : Dale Corey
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002281191

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From Achilles' Heel to Zeus's Shield by Dale Corey Pdf

Many words and expressions commonly used in English are rooted in Mythology. Dibbley looks at the most colorful ones, briefly recounting the stories of the gods and heroes and their trials and tribulations that inspired them in the first place.

Author : Christopher Simpson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497623064

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Blowback by Christopher Simpson Pdf

A searing account of a dark “chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies” (Library Journal). Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To this end, senior officials at the CIA, National Security Council, and other elements of the emerging US national security state turned to thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service, and Nazi collaborators for propaganda, psychological warfare, and military operations. Many new recruits were clearly responsible for the deaths of countless innocents as part of Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” yet were whitewashed and claimed to be valuable intelligence assets. Unrepentant mass murderers were secretly accepted into the American fold, their crimes forgotten and forgiven with the willing complicity of the US government. Blowback is the first thorough, scholarly study of the US government’s extensive recruitment of Nazis and fascist collaborators right after the war. Although others have approached the topic since, Simpson’s book remains the essential starting point. The author demonstrates how this secret policy of collaboration only served to intensify the Cold War and has had lasting detrimental effects on the American government and society that endure to this day.

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1850658919

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War and the Liberal Conscience by Michael Howard Pdf

Sir Michael Howard traces the pattern in the attitudes of liberal-minded men and women in the face of war, from Erasmus to the Americans after Vietnam, and concludes that peacemaking is a task which has to be tackled afresh every day of our lives.

Author : Andre Hue,Ewen Southby-Tailyour
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141941776

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The Next Moon by Andre Hue,Ewen Southby-Tailyour Pdf

Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyse local German troops during the Allied invasion. Though Hue's mission was fraught with difficulty - he missed his landing site, his secret base camp became the site of a pitch battle and a band of Cossacks tried to hunt him down - he knew that thousands of lives depended on his success or failure . . .

Author : Desiree C. Bailey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300256536

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What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey Pdf

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.” —Carl Phillips, from the Foreword The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”

Author : Keith Stanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400863372

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The Shield of Homer by Keith Stanley Pdf

In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current debate over the date and creation of the poem, but also challenges the view of this work as primarily a celebration of heroic force. He begins by studying the intricate ring-composition in the verses describing Achilles' shield, then extends this analysis to reveal the Iliad as an elaborate and self-conscious formal whole. In so doing he defends the hypothesis that the poem as we know it is a massive reorganization and expansion of earlier "Homeric" material, written in response to the need for a stable text for repeated performance at the sixth-century Athenian festival for the city's patron goddess. Stanley explores the arrangement of the poem's books, all unified by theme and structure, showing how this allowed for artistically satisfying and practically feasible recitation over a period of three or four days. Taking structural emphasis as a guide to poetic discourse, the author argues that the Iliad is not a poem of "might"--as opposed to the Odyssean celebration of "guile"--but that in advocating social and personal reconciliation the poem offers a profound indictment of a warring heroic society. Originally published in 1993. 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.

Author : Henk van Oosten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1304140695

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Achilles' Shield Decoded by Henk van Oosten Pdf

Troy, the Trojan War and the meandering route of Odysseus were never found in the ancient Greek world. There is a lot of speculation, but no evidence. Where is Troy? Is it all Homer's imagination? No, it is elsewhere. A new viewpoint arose when interpreting the forging of the new shield of Achilles (Iliad) by using several metals and its decoration with pictures of the earth, the sky dome and Oceanus. Why such a decorated weapon? Thinking about this lead to a surprising breakthrough: the forging of the new shield might have a special meaning: no nice but useless decorations, but crucial information. This decoding of Achilles' shield shed new light on famous elements in Homer's poems, such as a new motive for the Trojan War and forgotten Bronze Age knowledge for celestial navigation on Oceanus by Odysseus. This ultimately leads to the discovery of Troy, Ithaca, the battlefield of the Trojan War and Oceanus in a complete different part of the world.