Download or read book El Moreno Vendetta Di Dio written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven centuries after its appearance, Dante's Inferno fascinates readers. The punishments of Hell have kept a gruesome hold upon our imagination, whether or not we believe in a world beyond this one. Indeed, Underworld myths are immensely older than Christian theology; traditions all over the world tell of heroes who journey to strange places where normal rules are topsy-turvy and where eerie inhabitants seem to know a different reality.El Moreno, Vendetta di Dio has not only drawn upon Dante's vision of eternal punishment; it has also resurrected the mythic world of tales where miraculous events are reported with a child-like simplicity. The book's narrator has practically died on the inside as the story opens, going through his daily grind in a numbed state of amnesia that he never thinks to question. In his daze, he stumbles upon a desert space (perhaps Chihuahua or some other region of the Southwest) where points of the compass literally reverse and where the sun brightly, torridly "sleeps" as night covers the land of the living. Here he is taken in by a kind of Grim Reaper: El Moreno, The Dark One, a pistolero from an earlier era who torments roving gangs of damned souls while always evading their dogged pursuit of him. The narrator is oddly soothed by the austere beauty of the wasteland--but also by a new peace that helps his mind confront horrible recollections. As he witnesses the lasting punishments suffered by evil men, he comes to understand that the universe forgets not a single violated child or a single butchered innocent. Mass graves and the faceless statistics of ruthless totalitarian regimes are made to balance with the lives they have destroyed, person by person. In this land of endless cruel chases through cactus breaks, arroyos, and salt flats, the debt is paid in full.The colorful, stunningly imaginative action has something of the Hollywood Western, and even the comic book, about it. This is fully in keeping with the style of folktales and legends, which deliver wonders in the plainspoken manner that we associate with dreams. The style, besides respecting the same arid simplicity, sparkles with similes that Dante would have admired for their way of fusing the impossible with the familiar. While not written in verse, the poetic effects of El Moreno are easily powerful enough to call it an epic.Here, then, is no escapist cartoon. Those who care to read beneath the surface will discover that Harris is pursuing a passionate mission to recognize the real evil in the human world and to insist on real damnation. In his preface, he argues that "a person who cannot distinguish an error of judgment or a surrender to impulse from a willful, exultant decision to inflict life-altering anguish upon the innocent and the defenseless is a moral imbecile." He mentions cases of kidnappers enclosing children's fingers in ransom notes and ISIS-arranged crucifixions. As an organization, the Christian Church has largely stopped condemning such acts as needing anything more than understanding and forgiveness. It's not hard to see what the author thinks of equating faith with complete passivity in this way.Whether the demand for a more muscular faith implied in El Moreno's explosive symbols comes closer to the heart of Christianity is up to the reader's judgment, of course. Does mercy to the confused and adrift preclude justice to the deliberately wicked? Would you find heaven a place of peace and bliss if Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were all seated at your table?
Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Composing for the Cinema written by Ennio Morricone and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 400 scores to his credit, Ennio Morricone is one of the most prolific and influential film composers working today. He has collaborated with many significant directors, and his scores for such films as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in America; Days of Heaven; The Mission; The Untouchables; Malèna; and Cinema Paradiso leave moviegoers with the conviction that something special was achieved—a conviction shared by composers, scholars, and fans alike. In Composing for the Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music in Film, Morricone and musicologist Sergio Miceli present a series of lectures on the composition and analysis of film music. Adapted from several lectures and seminars, these lessons show how sound design can be analyzed and offer a variety of musical solutions to many different kinds of film. Though aimed at composers, Morricone’s expositions are easy to understand and fascinating even to those without any musical training. Drawing upon scores by himself and others, the composer also provides insight into his relationships with many of the directors with whom he has collaborated, including Sergio Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Franco Zeffirelli, Warren Beatty, Ridley Scott, Roland Joffé, the Taviani Brothers, and others. Translated and edited by Gillian B. Anderson, an orchestral conductor and musicologist, these lessons reveal Morricone’s passion about musical expression. Delivered in a conversational mode that is both comprehensible and interesting, this groundbreaking work intertwines analysis with practical details of film music composition. Aimed at a wide audience of composers, musicians, film historians, and fans, Composing for the Cinema contains a treasure trove of practical information and observations from a distinguished musicologist and one of the most accomplished composers on the international film scene.
Download or read book Hierocles the Stoic written by Ilaria Ramelli and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierocles, the Stoic philosopher of the early imperial age, is a crucial witness to Middle and Neo-Stoicism, especially with regard to their ethical philosophy. In this volume, all of Hierocles surviving works are translated into English for the first time, with the original Greek and a facing English translation: the Elements of Ethics, preserved on papyrus, along with all fragments and excerpts from the treatise On Duties, collected by Stobaeus in the fifth century C.E. and dealing mainly with social relationships, marriage, household, and family. In addition, Ramelli s introductory essay demonstrates how Hierocles was indebted to the Old Stoa and how he modified its doctrines in accord with Middle Stoicism and further developments in philosophy as well as his personal views. Finally, Ramelli s extensive commentary on Hierocles works clarifies philosophical questions raised by the text and provides rich and updated references to existing scholarship.
Download or read book The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel written by María Paz López Martínez and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twenty-six contributions in this volume have been divided into thematic blocks, based on the different approaches that the authors have adopted to tackle the subject. The first block is about realia – the reality in which the fiction has been conceived. The second block focuses on the legal problems that can be deduced from the plots of the novels. The third block encompasses deals with the Greek and Roman novel from the point of view of classical philology, literary criticism and literary theory, with chapters dedicated to the tradition of the ancient novel, both in our most immediate cultural area (Middle Ages, Spanish Golden Age) and in other contexts, whether Indo-European (India, Persia) or of a different origin.
Download or read book Schwann Opus written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Barangay written by William Henry Scott and published by Ateneo University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barangay presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography. Part One describes Visayan culture in eight chapters on physical appearance, food and farming, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organization, and warfare. Part Two surveys the rest of the archipelago from south to north.
Download or read book Bollettino della Societ geografica italiana written by Società geografica italiana and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TransAntiquity written by Domitilla Campanile and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.
Download or read book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao written by Junot Diaz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back. Rendered with uncommon warmth and humour, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a literary triumph, that confirms Junot Díaz as one of the most exciting writers of our time.
Download or read book Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Exaltation and Infamy written by Stephen Haliczer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case-studies and biographies, the author examines women's mysticism in 16th- and 17th-century Spain and investigates the spiritual forces that provided women with a way to transcend the control of the male-dominated Catholic Church.
Download or read book Black Widow By Kelly Thompson Vol 1 written by Kelly Thompson and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Black Widow (2020) #1-5. Something is very wrong with Natasha: She’s…happy?! Kelly Thompson. Black Widow. ’Nuff said! The best-selling, Eisner Award–nominated writer of CAPTAIN MARVEL joins rising-star artist Elena Casagrande to change everything for Natasha Romanoff! The Widow has been a spy almost as long as she’s been alive. And she’s never stopped running, whether she was working for the good guys or the bad. But retirement definitely agrees with the world’s deadliest woman as she revels in the perfect life she never dreamed she could have. But scratch the surface of that perfect life and you’ll find something very wrong lurking beneath it — and a woman like Nat just can’t help but scratch. Beyond San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge lies a mystery only the Marvel Universe’s greatest spy can solve! Prepare for a can’t-miss thrill ride!
Download or read book Something Wikkid This Way Comes The Manga written by Nicole Peeler and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitola, Moo, and Shar are the halfling ladies of Triptych: supernatural private investigators who get paid to clean up paranormal messes. Normally Cappie doesn't take human cases, but who can resist a priest, missing Catholic school girls, and a creature that may or may not be the Prince of Darkness? Enjoy Cassandra Jean's manga adaptation of Nicole Peeler's hilarious short story originally published by Orbit!
Download or read book The International Film Index 1895 1990 Film titles written by Alan Goble and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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