The Woods Of Arcady

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429944854

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The Woods of Arcady by Michael Moorcock Pdf

A wild desert crossing, a secret island paradise, a hidden underground civilization, plus London and Paris. The multiverse expands as pulp adventure mixes with unreal memoir in the second volume in The Sanctuary of the White Friars series. In the 1970s, Michael Moorcock, a writer of genre fiction, attempts to save his failing marriage by taking his wife and daughters to Paris. One night in a bar he is amazed to find himself drinking with heroes of story and history. The next day he awakens aboard a sailing ship, kidnapped into another reality by a French highwayman and the four Musketeers, who know Moorcock well from adventures in London's Alsacia...but that was another Moorcock, from another world. Soon after they reach Africa, the company is rescued from an ambush by Antara, a poet-adventurer who offers to lead them across the desert and through several realities to the estate of Lord and Lady Blackstone. The trip is full of wonders Moorcock has read, dreamed, or written: an underground civilization of nonhuman creatures; a magical oasis where the lion lies down with the lamb; a lush garden inhabited by miniature dinosaurs. They are pursued by the notorious Jacob Nixer, who also remembers the Alsacia and is determined to destroy Moorcock and his companions. The main narrative of The Woods of Arcady is punctuated by episodes from the story of the Blackstones and by spirited, freewheeling appearances by Captain Buggerly Otherly and his companions from the Second Ether. As readers move deeper into Moorcock's multiverse, it rises up on all sides, ready to astound. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Brian Arkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389209139

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Builders of My Soul by Brian Arkins Pdf

To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth, religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how, especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus, and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda, and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 32.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429986427

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The Whispering Swarm by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Almost anyone who has read or written Science Fiction or fantasy has been inspired by the work of Michael Moorcock. His literary flair and grand sense of adventure have been evident since his controversial first novel Behold the Man, through the stories and novels featuring his most famous character, Elric of Melniboné, to his fantasy masterpiece, Gloriana, winner of both the Campbell Memorial and World Fantasy, awards for best novel. Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Michael Chabon all cite Moorcock as a major influence; as editor of New Worlds magazine, he helped launch the careers of many of his contemporaries, including Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, and J. G. Ballard. Tor Books now proudly presents Moorcock's first independent novel in nine years, a tale both fantastical and autobiographical, a celebration of London and what it meant to be young there in the years after World War II. The Whispering Swarm is the first in a trilogy that will follow a young man named Michael as he simultaneously discovers himself and a secret realm hidden deep in the heart of London. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Suheil B. Bushrui,Tim Prentki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389209058

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An International Companion to the Poetry of W.B. Yeats by Suheil B. Bushrui,Tim Prentki Pdf

Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Yeats's Life; A Brief Outline of Irish History; A Note on the Text; A Note on the Spelling of Gaelic Names; General Commentary; Brief Notes on Style and Metre; Symbolism: The DanceróThe SwanóThe ToweróThe Gyre; Magic, Myth and Legend; Nationalism and Politics; The Poet's Vision; History and Civilization; People; Places; Summaries; Summaries and Commentaries on Single Poems and Summaries of the Poetry Collections 1889-1939 as listed in Collected Poems; Suggestions for Further Reading; Title Index of Poems Summarized; Index of First Lines of Poems Summarized; General Index.

Author : Peter McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000096859

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The Poems of W.B. Yeats by Peter McDonald Pdf

In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats’s poetry presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats’s poetry to date, explaining specific references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived by the poet. This first volume collects Yeats’s poetry of the 1880s, from his ambitious and extensive juvenilia (including hitherto little-noticed dramatic poems) to his earliest published pieces, leading to his first substantial book of verse. The pastoral romance of classically-inflected early work like ‘The Island of Statues’ is succeeded in these years by the Irish mythic material that finds its largest canvas in the mini-epic ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’. In Yeats’s work through the 1880s, an adolescent poet’s youthful absorption in Romantic poetry is replaced by a commitment to esoteric religious speculation and Irish political nationalism. This edition allows readers to see Yeats’s emergence as a poet step by step in compelling detail in relation to his literary influences – including, significantly, the Anglo-Irish poetry of the nineteenth century. The commentary provides an extensive view of Yeats’s developing personal, cultural, and historical worlds as the poems gain in maturity and depth. From the first attempts at verse of a teenage boy to the fully accomplished writings of an original poet standing on the verge of popular success with poems such as ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, Yeats’s poetry is displayed here in unprecedented fullness and detail.

Author : 陳福田（Ching Fook-tan）
Publisher : 香港中和出版有限公司，聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789888763092

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西南聯大英文課（有聲珍藏版，電子書無聲音檔） by 陳福田（Ching Fook-tan） Pdf

全書編選了四十二篇英文作品，均為經典範文，出自賽珍珠、毛姆、梭羅、胡適等中外名家之手。 主編陳福田教授既是教育家，也是語言學家，這本精華讀本將教育理念融入英語教學，在提升英語閱讀能力，欣賞英語範文、西方經典之外，更傳遞出一種深切的人文關懷和高尚的道德情操。 主題多元，體裁多樣，蘊含豐富有益的通識元素。既是學習英文的上佳素材，也是培養博雅品味、健全人格的優良讀物。

Author : Stephen Maxfield Parrish
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501742897

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A Concordance to the Poems of W.B. Yeats by Stephen Maxfield Parrish Pdf

Now it is possible for the first time to trace in a systematic way the language patterns of one of the greatest poets who have written in English, W. B. Yeats. Like A Concordance to the Poems of Matthew Arnold, the first of the Cornell Concordances that are under the general editorship of Professor Parrish, this volume was produced on an IBM 704 electronic data-processing machine. Computer technique has so advanced that the Yeats concordance includes punctuation and gives cross references for the second parts of hyphenated words. The frequency of every word in Yeats's poems is given, and an appendix lists all indexed words in order of frequency. The body of this book consists of an index of all significant words in Yeats, each word listed in the line or lines in which it occurs. The concordance is based on the variorum text of Yeats, edited by Alspach and Allt, and includes all variants that occur in printed versions of Yeats's poems.

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : M O J O Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 1885418175

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Tales from the Texas Woods by Michael Moorcock Pdf

Experience the many worlds of the man that the London Times called "a myth-maker" through a uniquely Western Slant.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496218148

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April Twilights (1903) by Willa Cather Pdf

Before she wrote her prose masterpieces, Willa Cather produced striking poems, which were collected in 1903 in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by nine years. In her introduction, distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this early edition of April Twilights restores what had been "an almost lost, certainly blurred, portion of the creative life of a great novelist." Among the thirty-seven selections are the much-anthologized "Grandmither, Think Not I Forget" and the highly evocative "Prairie Dawn." This new edition includes a new introduction by Robert Thacker, which provides new insights into Cather and her poetry.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547549255

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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Philip K. Dick Pdf

"A great and calamitous sequence of arguments with the universe: poignant, terrifying, ludicrous, and brilliant. The Exegesis is the sort of book associated with legends and madmen, but Dick wasn't a legend and he wasn't mad. He lived among us, and was a genius."-Jonathan Lethem Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. Edited and introduced by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, this will be the definitive presentation of Dick's brilliant, and epic, final work. In The Exegesis, Dick documents his eight-year attempt to fathom what he called "2-3-74," a postmodern visionary experience of the entire universe "transformed into information." In entries that sometimes ran to hundreds of pages, Dick tried to write his way into the heart of a cosmic mystery that tested his powers of imagination and invention to the limit, adding to, revising, and discarding theory after theory, mixing in dreams and visionary experiences as they occurred, and pulling it all together in three late novels known as the VALIS trilogy. In this abridgment, Jackson and Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.

Author : Ken Monteith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135915629

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Yeats and Theosophy by Ken Monteith Pdf

When H. P. Blavatsky, the controversial head of the turn of the century movement Theosophy, defined "a true Theosophist" in her book The Key to Theosophy, she could have just as easily have been describing W. B. Yeats. Blavatsky writes, "A true Theosophist must put in practice the loftiest moral ideal, must strive to realize his unity with the whole of humanity, and work ceaselessly for others." Although Yeats joined Blavatsky's group in 1887, and subsequently left to help form The Golden Dawn in 1890, Yeats's career as poet and politician were very much in line with the methods set forth by Blavatsky's doctrine. My project explores how Yeats employs this pop-culture occultism in the creation of his own national literary aesthetic. This project not only examines the influence theosophy has on the literary work Yeats produced in the late 1880's and 1890's, but also Yeats's work as literary critic and anthology editor during that time. While Yeats uses theosophy's metaphysical world view to provide an underlying structure for some of his earliest poetry and drama, he uses theosophy's methods of investigation and argument to discover a metaphysical literary tradition which incorporates all of his own literary heroes into an Irish cultural tradition. Theosophy provides a methodology for Yeats to argue that both Shelley and Blake (for example) are part of a tradition that includes himself. Basing his argument in theosophy, Yeats can argue that the Irish people are a distinct race with a culture more "sincere" and "natural" than that of England.

Author : Joseph McMinn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0389209627

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The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama by Joseph McMinn Pdf

This book contains the proceedings of the Seventh Triennial Conference of the I.A.S.A.I.L. held at Coleraine in July of 1988.

Author : Patricia Silva-McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351536134

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Yeats and Pessoa by Patricia Silva-McNeill Pdf

W. B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) regarded style as a tool for metaphysical inquiry and, consequently, they adopted distinct poetic styles to convey different attitudes towards experience. Silva-McNeill's study examines how the poets' stylistic diversification was a means of rehearsing different existential and aesthetic stances. It identifies parallels between their styles from a comparative case studies approach. Their stylistic masks allowed them to maintain the subjectivity and authenticity associated with the lyrical genre, while simultaneously attaining greater objectivity and conveying multiple perspectives. The poets continuously transformed the fond and form of their verse, creating a protean lyrical voice that expressed their multilateral poetic temperament and reflected the depersonalisation and formal experimentalism of the modern lyric.

Author : Martin Lockerd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350137677

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Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism by Martin Lockerd Pdf

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson - to the modernist writers of the following generation, this book charts the legacy of decadent Catholicism in the fiction and poetry of British and Irish modernists. Linking the later writers with their literary predecessors, Martin Lockerd examines the shifts in representation of Catholic decadence in the works of W. B. Yeats through Ezra Pound to T.S. Eliot; the adoption and transformation of anti-Catholicism in Irish writers George Moore and James Joyce; the Catholic literary revival as portrayed in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited; and the attraction to decadent Catholicism still felt by postmodernist writers D.B.C. Pierre and Alan Hollinghurst. Drawing on new archival research, this study revisits some of the central works of modernist literature and undermines existing myths of modernist newness and secularism to supplant them with a record of spiritual turmoil, metaphysical uncertainty, and a project of cultural subversion that paradoxically relied upon the institutional bulwark of European Christianity. Lockerd explores the aesthetic, sexual, and political implications of the relationship between decadent art and Catholicism as it found a new voice in the works of iconoclastic modernist writers.

Author : A. Norman Jeffares,K.G.W. Cross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349006465

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In Excited Reverie by A. Norman Jeffares,K.G.W. Cross Pdf