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Book Circe s Cup

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Carroll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781859183274
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Circe s Cup written by Clare Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new and radical assessment of cultural transformation and conflict in early modern Ireland.

Book Circe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madeline Miller
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2018-04-10
  • ISBN : 0316556335
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Circe written by Madeline Miller and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.

Book Circe s Cup

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Carroll
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Circe s Cup written by Clare Carroll and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the role writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. This radical new assessment of culture and conflict in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland covers a wide range of topics, including ethnography, translation practices, and political philosophy.

Book Circe s Cup

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Carroll
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Circe s Cup written by Clare Carroll and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the role writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. This radical new assessment of culture and conflict in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland covers a wide range of topics, including ethnography, translation practices, and political philosophy.

Book Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses  Waterhouse  Notebook Journal

Download or read book Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses Waterhouse Notebook Journal written by Buckskin Creek Journals and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The front cover of each volume in the Buckskin Creek Fine Art Journals series features a magnificent work of art in full color. Inside you'll find fresh blank pages of high quality paper for journaling, note taking, creative writing, sketching, list making, school compositions or simply preserving your ideas and observations. Perfect for personal use, they also make gorgeous gifts. Set your creativity free with Buckskin Creek Journals and Notebooks. Buckskin Creek Journals - Fine Art Series Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse 8x10 Inches College Ruled 200 Pages

Book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Book The King of Plagues

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  • Author : Jonathan Maberry
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2011-03-29
  • ISBN : 1429966890
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The King of Plagues written by Jonathan Maberry and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturday 09:11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured... 10:09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate. The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen. Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak. Soon Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences begin tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt to destabilize world economies and profit from the resulting chaos. Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets the this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.

Book Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Download or read book Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance written by H. David Brumble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While numerous classical dictionaries identify the figures and tales of Greek and Roman mythology, this reference book explains the allegorical significance attached to the myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth a

Book The Cambridge Guide to Homer

Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Homer written by Corinne Ondine Pache and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.

Book Odyssey  Book 9

    Book Details:
  • Author : Homer
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781019084861
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Odyssey Book 9 written by Homer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Metamorphoses  Book XIV

Download or read book Metamorphoses Book XIV written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Rape

Download or read book The Politics of Rape written by Jennifer L. Airey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating broadsides, this study argues that authors used dramatic representations of rape to respond to and engage with late-century upheavals in British political culture. Beginning with an examination of rape scenes in English Civil War propaganda, The Politics of Rape argues that Roundhead authors described acts of rape and atrocity to demonize their enemies, the Irish, the Catholics, and the Cavaliers. After the Restoration, propagandists and playwrights on each side of every political conflict would follow suit, altering the rhetoric of sexual violence in response to each new moment of political upheaval: The Restoration of Charles II, the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, the Glorious Revolution, and the accession of William and Mary. The study offers an intensive look at British propaganda culture, gathering together a wealth of understudied pamphlet texts, and identifying a series of stock figures that recur throughout the century: The demonic Irishman, sexually violent villain of the 1641 Irish Rebellion tracts; the debauched Cavalier, the secretly Catholic royalist rapist; the poisonous Catholic bride, the malignant consort who encourages the rapes of Protestant women; the cannibal father, the evil patriarch who rapes his daughters-in-laws before ingesting his own sons as a symbol of monarchical overreach; and the ravished monarch, the male rape victim whose sexual violation protests his political disenfranchisement. The study also traces the appearance of these figures on the British stage, examining well-known works by Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Lee, and Shadwell, alongside lesser-known plays by Orrery, Howard, Settle, Crowne, Ravenscroft, Pix, Cibber, and Brady. The Politics of Rape thus offers a new method for understanding of the geo-political implications of theatrical sexual violence. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Book Poetical Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Milton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1878
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Poetical Works written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Edition of Alexander   s Ross   s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus  or the Muses Interpreter

Download or read book A Critical Edition of Alexander s Ross s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus or the Muses Interpreter written by John R. Glenn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature

Download or read book Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature written by Jane Ellen Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Images of a Queen

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Emerson Phillips
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520313704
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Images of a Queen written by James Emerson Phillips and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.