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Book Exorbitant Narrative  Inordinate Epic

Download or read book Exorbitant Narrative Inordinate Epic written by Susan Gevirtz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exorbitant Narrative  Inordinate Epic

Download or read book Exorbitant Narrative Inordinate Epic written by Susan Gevirtz and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Book Franklin and Winston

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jon Meacham
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2004-10-12
  • ISBN : 0812972821
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Franklin and Winston written by Jon Meacham and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill. Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history. Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’ s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

Book Reading Between Medieval Epic and Romance

Download or read book Reading Between Medieval Epic and Romance written by Natalia Calvert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kick Push

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Morrison
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1547605936
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Kick Push written by Frank Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning picture book creator Frank Morrison makes his author/illustrator debut in an exuberant story about being yourself. Epic has tricks you won't believe. He's the kick flipping, big rail king. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he can't wait to hit the street with his skateboard. But his old moves don't feel fresh without a crew to see 'em. Epic thinks about giving up his board to fit in, but an encouraging word from his dad helps him see that the trick to making new friends is to always be yourself. Be you. . . be epic! Award-winning illustrator Frank Morrison offers a heartwarming, dynamic celebration of self-expression, inspired by his own journey through fatherhood.

Book The Dark Side of Statius  Achilleid

Download or read book The Dark Side of Statius Achilleid written by Julene Abad Del Vecchio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals with a light subject matter—the cross-dressing of a young Achilles on Scyros—to offer an in-depth examination of the poem's relationship to its epic and tragic precursors, and to explore its more serious themes. It is shown to challenge traditional epic narratives, examine Achilles' complex familial relationships and his deviant and transgressive heroism, highlight the tragic character of Thetis, and provide glimpses of the horrors that the cataclysmic Trojan War will beget. By looking into Statius' wide-ranging dialogue with his literary predecessors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Seneca, as well as Statius' previous epic magnum opus, the Thebaid, the multidimensional characterisations of Achilles and other of the poem's key characters, such as Ulysses, Calchas, and Thetis are investigated. Far from simply representing a shameful but essentially humorous cross-dressing episode in Achilles' life that is destined to be forgotten, the Achilleid can be seen to challenge the very fabric of epic by probing the validity and authority of its literary tradition, as well as highlighting its highly innovative and experimental nature.

Book Epic Moderation

Download or read book Epic Moderation written by Edward Grant Little and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Translation as Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Marie Young
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-09-05
  • ISBN : 022627991X
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Translation as Muse written by Elizabeth Marie Young and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is often understood as a form that resists translation. Translation as Muse questions this truism, arguing for translation as a defining condition of Catullus's poetry and for this aggressively marginal poet's centrality to comprehending cultural transformation in first-century Rome. Young approaches translation from several different angles including the translation of texts, the translation of genres, and translatio in the form of the pan-Mediterranean transport of people, goods, and poems. Throughout, she contextualizes Catullus's corpus within the cultural foment of Rome's first-century imperial expansion, viewing his work as emerging from the massive geopolitical shifts that marked the era. Young proposes that reading Catullus through a translation framework offers a number of significant rewards: it illuminates major trends in late Republican culture, it reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and it calls into question some basic assumptions about lyric poetry, the genre most closely associated with Catullus's eclectic oeuvre.

Book SSC Cgi Tier II Solved Questions Papers 2018  Staff Selection Commission  PART II

Download or read book SSC Cgi Tier II Solved Questions Papers 2018 Staff Selection Commission PART II written by MEENACHISUNDARAM.M and published by MS SOFTWARE LABORATORIES. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SSC Cgl Tier II Previous Year Question Papers for 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS Ssc Cgl Tier II Previous Year Question Paper 2018 Overview 3 Ssc Cgl Tier II Previous Year Question Paper : 3 Questions and Solutions From 2023-02-08 onwards

Book A Curriculum for English

Download or read book A Curriculum for English written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Affected Sensibilities

Download or read book Affected Sensibilities written by Stephen Ahern and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering assessment of the history of the English novel, Stephen Ahern's new study Affected Sensibilities reconsiders the role played by the early British novel in the shift from a culture of libertinism during the Restoration and its aftermath, to a culture of sentimentality from mid-century through the beginnings of Romanticism. In a perceptive series of essays on prose narratives, the author develops the provocative thesis that the amatory, sentimental, and Gothic fictional forms that dominate the marketplace in the early years of the novel are deeply connected by a concern with sensibility, a capacity for living intensely that is largely determined by class and gender.

Book Paradise Regained

Download or read book Paradise Regained written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dragon Outcast

    Book Details:
  • Author : E.E. Knight
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2007-12-04
  • ISBN : 1101212802
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Dragon Outcast written by E.E. Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon Outcast continues E.E. Knight's thrilling fantasy series about a brood of young dragon siblings-each unique, each powerful, and each fated to battle the other to the end. Here, the darkest of the dragons is introduced as he strives to make himself the strongest-and the last-of his brethren...

Book The Night Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Hope Hodgson
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Night Land written by William Hope Hodgson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1912 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This to be Love, that your spirit to live in a natural holiness with the Beloved, and your bodies to be a sweet and natural delight that shall be never lost of a lovely mystery.... And shame to be unborn, and all things to go wholesome and proper, out of an utter greatness of understanding; and the Man to be an Hero and a Child before the Woman; and the Woman to be an Holy Light of the Spirit and an Utter Companion and in the same time a glad Possession unto the Man.... And this doth be Human Love...." "...for this to be the especial glory of Love, that it doth make unto all Sweetness and Greatness, and doth be a fire burning all Littleness; so that did all in this world to have met The Beloved, then did Wantonness be dead, and there to grow Gladness and Charity, dancing in the years."

Book The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

Download or read book The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great written by Vera Proskurina and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an all-embracing review of Catherine’s entire literary output, which consists of works in multiple genres and languages. The Russian empress’s writings have been the repeated subject of serious analysis for nineteenth- and twentieth-century researchers; all of these in one way or another demonstrate that across a variety of genres and formats, with a greater or lesser degree of independence and originality, the literary works of Catherine II always express her politics and ideology. These texts were carefully prepared, their publications and stage productions executed magnificently. As a rule, the most significant works were translated into French, German, and, in some cases, English. European readers, as well as the Russian public, were expected to be attentive witnesses to, and happy consumers of, the monarch’s compositions. Amongst rulers, the literary productivity of the Russian empress has no analogue in history. This volume is the first study in English of the vast literary output of Catherine the Great.