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Book Antar a Bedoueen Romance

Download or read book Antar a Bedoueen Romance written by and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prose Works Essays on chivalry romance the drama

Download or read book Prose Works Essays on chivalry romance the drama written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient

Download or read book Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Romance of the Orient written by Luther S. Luedtke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that by focusing on British and American backgrounds, readers have underestimated the impact of Asia and "the East" on American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing. The central force in Hawthorne's intellectual development was New England Puritanism. It fascinated even when it sometimes repelled him. It exercised a pull on his imagination which a lifetime of varied experience did not loosen. The author recreates Hawthorne's heritage and examine his readings in material dealing with the East; he examines three of Hawthorne's "early tales" that were all written before 1830; and he looks at Hawthorne's "The Story Teller", the two-volume book of sketches and tales Hawthorne unsuccessfully tried to publish in 1834 and issued piecemeal thereafter in periodicals as annuals. The author also evaluates the role of the Eastern world in Hawthorne's view of Romance and studies some of Hawthorne's "remarkable" heroines -- Beatrice Rapaccini, Hester, Zenobia, and Miriam in particular. The author maintains that the Puritan element in Hawthorne's ancestry has been overstressed and that insufficient attention has been paid to the equally important travel-adventure-exploration aspect of Hawthorne's heritage and craft.

Book Scott Chaucer and Medieval Romance

Download or read book Scott Chaucer and Medieval Romance written by Jerome Mitchell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell's new book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott's indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance, especially the Middle English romances, for story-patterns, motifs, character types, style and structure, and detail. Mitchell establishes more completely and accurately than any previous critic the extent of Scott's knowledge of medieval literature. His examination of Scott's poetry, especially the long narrative poems, demonstrates their debt to Chaucer and medieval romance. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of the Waverley Novels. Scott's debt to medieval literature, Mitchell shows, was vast, profound, and elemental; it is the single most important source area for the Waverley Novels, their warp and woof. Moreover, it is probably the key to Scott's immense appeal—the very dimension which enabled him to cast an everlasting spell on his contemporaries, even on such great men as Byron and Goethe, and which has charmed generations of readers to the present day. This pioneering book, based on extensive research in Scotland, including Sir Walter Scott's personal library, sheds new light on the narrative substance and texture of Scott's poems and novels. Both the general reader and the serious student will derive from it a more informed appreciation of Scott's impressive achievement.

Book Chivalry Romance and the Drama

Download or read book Chivalry Romance and the Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays on Chivalry Romance and the Drama

Download or read book Essays on Chivalry Romance and the Drama written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arabian Poetry for English Readers

Download or read book Arabian Poetry for English Readers written by William Alexander Clouston and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Popular Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Popular Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Warrior Women of Islam

Download or read book The Warrior Women of Islam written by Remke Kruk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers throughout the cities of the Muslim world, these fictions were printed and reprinted over the centuries and comprise a vital part of Arab culture. Yet virtually none are available in translation, and so remain almost unknown to a non-Arab public. Remke Kruk at last makes these neglected romances available to a Western audience. She recounts the story of Princess Dhat al-Himma, brave and undefeated leader of the Muslim army in its wars against the Byzantines; of Ghamra, brought up as a boy to become a fearless leader of men; and of cool-headed Qannasa, raiding from her mountain fortress to capture and seduce her enemies before putting them pitilessly to the sword. The Warrior Women of Islam puts a bold new complexion on gender roles and the wider perception of women in the Middle East.

Book The Popular Encyclopedia Or Conversations Lexicon Being a General Dictionary of Arts Science Literature Biography History Ethics and Political Economy

Download or read book The Popular Encyclopedia Or Conversations Lexicon Being a General Dictionary of Arts Science Literature Biography History Ethics and Political Economy written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aspects of Islamic Civilization

Download or read book Aspects of Islamic Civilization written by A J Arberry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry’s best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations. The material therefore presents a vivid picture of the richness and variety of Islamic civilization from its origins to the late twentieth century.