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Author : Phillip Parotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053271824
Twelve men who once served in the Trojan War tell their stories 50 years later about the war and about the people they knew.
Author : Phillip Parotti
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048711058
"In the manner of Robert Graves, Parotti extrapolates events from Homeric epic and vividly recreates scenes of the Trojan war from the viewpoints of lesser-known players. This companion book to The Greek Generals Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War comprises dramatic monologues in which 10 aged veteran commanders nurse their war wounds in far-flung locations around the Mediterranean, while assessing the fall of Troy. They discuss errors of strategy and bemoan the war's carnage and the loss of loved ones. The style of their retelling echoes Homer, yet the idiom is contemporary. Many offer opinions of Helen, the "Spartan whore." Medon, savoring a cup of bitter Thracian wine, believes that Helen was not the cause; this was really a trade war, waged to wrest control of the sea from Priam. Pyracchmes, former leader of the archers, finds himself mining silver in Mt. Laurion in Attica. Hate, back home in Alybe, says Paris should have been executed as the prophecy had urged. Parotti, professor of English at Sam Houston State University, provides a note on the legends of Bronze Age Troy (whose site is in modern Turkey) and its downfall in 1250-1185 BC There are maps, a glossary and a gazetteer. This book will be especially prized by readers familiar with Greek myth and epic."--Publishers Weekly
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015003032795
Author : Hilary Susan Mackie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0847682552
In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective, private, and introspective. Mackie identifies the differences between Greek and Trojan language by analyzing poetic formulas, usually thought to indicate a similarity of language among Homeric characters, and conversations, which are seen here to be of equal importance to the numerous speeches throughout the Iliad. Mackie concludes with analyses of the two great heroes of the Iliad, Hektor and Achilles, and the extent to which they represent their own cultures in their use of language.
Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319692036
Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : UCAL:B5094487
Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252016025
Author : Helen Norris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252015401
Author : Charles East
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252065794
Fourteen stories on old age. In Crazy Heart, an old man reflects on his failed marriage, while Mr. Alello is on the indignity of a lonely death.
Author : Ann Lowry Weir
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252060326
Author : Mark Costello
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252063198
These stories mark the return of Mark Costello's now-legendary creation Michael Murphy, the character who first appeared in the acclaimed collection The Murphy Stories. Joyce Carol Oates wrote in the Washington Post Book World, "Murphy is a Midwestern cousin of Donleavy's Ginger Man, but much more human and troubled. . . . It is a remarkable achievement, the presentation of a complex, suffering, self-conscious, and very lyric personality as he endures his own being."
Author : Richard Burgin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0252018435
Author : Steven Schwartz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 025201815X
Author : Helen Norris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0252060415
Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower hires a woman to keep him company...when these two lonely souls meet, the result is a heartwarming and redeeming weekend that will change both of their lives forever. In this and other stories in The Christmas Wife, distinguished author and four-time recipient of the prestigious O. Henry Award Helen Norris expertly blends the poignant and bittersweet in moments that quietly resonate beyond the page. Emotional and moving, Norris's stories masterfully celebrate the heart and soul's triumph over loss, regret, and the nameless longings common to all. With a new introduction by Kaye Gibbons, author of Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman, and more, this edition also includes the DVD of the film The Christmas Wife, starring Academy Award-winning actor Jason Robards and Tony Award-winning actress Julie Harris. Book jacket.
Author : Lisa Greathouse
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781433393242
This script tells a story about a war that took place long ago between the Greeks and the Trojans. It is said that the war began when the Trojans kidnapped Helen, the queen of the great Greek state, Sparta. The effort to get her back caused one of the greatest wars in history that lasted over a decade. Find out how it ended and who was behind the master plan!
