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Book Ancient Traces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Baigent
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 1999-08-26
  • ISBN : 0140264485
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Ancient Traces written by Michael Baigent and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of different chapters Michael Baigent examines a number of enigmas surrounding such ancient mysteries as Atlantis and the Pyramids. He investigates such questions as whether there were ancient contacts between Europe and America,and whether a great catastrophe hit the planet around 10000 BC. And in the process he calls into question much of today's orthodoxy on such subjects.

Book Fictional Traces  Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 2

Download or read book Fictional Traces Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 2 written by Marília Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature."--

Book Fictional Traces  Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 1

Download or read book Fictional Traces Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 1 written by Marília Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature."--

Book Traces of the Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Bassi
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2016-08-17
  • ISBN : 0472119923
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Traces of the Past written by Karen Bassi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative multidisciplinary study of the relationship between visual perception and temporal meaning in ancient Greek literature and history writing

Book Traces of History in the Names of Places

Download or read book Traces of History in the Names of Places written by Flavell Edmunds and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life Traces of the Georgia Coast

Download or read book Life Traces of the Georgia Coast written by Anthony J. Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.

Book Ancient Traces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Baigent
  • Publisher : ePenguin
  • Release : 1999-08-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Ancient Traces written by Michael Baigent and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of different chapters Michael Baigent examines a number of enigmas surrounding such ancient mysteries as Atlantis and the Pyramids. He investigates such questions as whether there were ancient contacts between Europe and America,and whether a great catastrophe hit the planet around 10000 BC. And in the process he calls into question much of today's orthodoxy on such subjects.

Book Ancient Cambridgeshire  Or  An Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed Through the County of Cambridge

Download or read book Ancient Cambridgeshire Or An Attempt to Trace Roman and Other Ancient Roads that Passed Through the County of Cambridge written by Charles Cardale Babington and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The one primeval Language  traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in alphabetic Characters of lost Powers from the four Continents  including the Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Sinai  and the Vestiges of Patriarchal tradition from the Monuments of Egypt  Etrusia  and Southern Arabia

Download or read book The one primeval Language traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in alphabetic Characters of lost Powers from the four Continents including the Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Sinai and the Vestiges of Patriarchal tradition from the Monuments of Egypt Etrusia and Southern Arabia written by Charl. de Forster and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traces of Fremont

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  • Author : Steven R. Simms
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Traces of Fremont written by Steven R. Simms and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fascinating look at rock art through the lens of archeology and anthropology, offering an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview.

Book Life Traces of the Georgia Coast

Download or read book Life Traces of the Georgia Coast written by Anthony J. Martin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.

Book Lipstick Traces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greil Marcus
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780674535817
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Lipstick Traces written by Greil Marcus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. âeoeI am an antichrist!âe shouted singer Johnny Rottenâe"where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demandsâe"demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday lifeâe"seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Parisâe"based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and âe(tm)60s; the rioting students and workers of May âe(tm)68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage âeoeAnarchy in the U.K.âe and âeoeGod Save the Queen.âe Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.

Book Traces on the Rhodian Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clarence J. Glacken
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 9780520023673
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book Traces on the Rhodian Shore written by Clarence J. Glacken and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships toit. From the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have been and are being given so frequently and so continually that we may restate them in the form of general ideas.

Book History of Ancient Peoples

Download or read book History of Ancient Peoples written by Willis Boughton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Highlands   Highland Clans

Download or read book History of the Highlands Highland Clans written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Scottish Highlands  Highland Clans and Highland Regiments

Download or read book The History of the Scottish Highlands Highland Clans and Highland Regiments written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chasing Traces

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  • Author : Pierre Petit
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2024-05-31
  • ISBN : 0824897749
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Chasing Traces written by Pierre Petit and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam, and Laos, recalling the past is a highly sensitive act. Among local societies, many may actively avoid recalling the past for fear of endangering themselves and others. Oral traditions and rare archives remain the main avenues to visit the past, but the national revolutionary narrative and the language of heritagization have strongly affected the local expression of historical memory. Yet this does not prevent local societies from producing their stories in their own terms, even if often in conflict with both national and Western categories. Producing history, ethnohistory, historical anthropology, and historical geography in the Southeast Asian highlands raises significant questions relating to methodology, epistemology, and ethics, for which most researchers are often ill-prepared. How can scholars manage to competently access information about the past? How is one to capture history-in-the-making through events, speech acts, rituals, and performances? How is the memory of the past transmitted—or not—and with what logic? Based on the experiences and reflections of a dozen diverse scholars rooted in decades of work in these three communist states, Chasing Traces is the first book about historical ethnography and related issues in the Southeast Asian highlands. Taking a critically reflexive posture, the authors make a plea for the individual, the hidden, and the backstage, for what life is really like on the ground, as opposed to imagined homogeneity, legibility, and unambiguousness. Their investigations on the history of ethnic minority communities adds archival historiography to ethnographic fieldwork and examines the relationship between the two fields. The individual chapters each tell distinctive stories of the conjunction of fieldwork, archival research, official surveillance, community participation, cultural norms, partnership with local scholars, and the other factors that both facilitate and frustrate the research enterprise of writing about the past in these societies. A timely work, this volume also provides guidelines for alternative ways to document and reflect when physical access becomes limited due to factors such as pandemic, political instability, and violence, and offers creative ways for researchers to cope with these dramatic shifts.