Download or read book Fable Weaver written by Carlie Gernhart and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words have power. Especially for Linnet Fairweather, a fable weaver whose words have more influence over storybook characters than she realizes. When fiction’s worst villain escapes the prison of Tierra Fabula —the place characters go when their stories are over— and begins launching evil into the real world, Linnet is forced to enter the pages of legend. The only way to prevent both worlds from spinning out of control is to face the dark sorceress in the place of her greatest power—the world of books. With the help of her guardian changelings, Linnet must step from one reality into another. But can the last fable weaver find the right words to battle the most twisted villain ever written? Or will the barrier between the real and the imaginary come crashing down forever?
Download or read book The Weaver s Songs written by Kabir and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.
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 1901 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by Sir James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus written by Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of the archaic poets of Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, has been imperfectly and poorly transmitted either in book fragments or in later ragged papyri, so that new attempts of interpretation will always be required, especially when new research tools and methods have appeared in classical scholarship.The book consists of 14 articles by the author, which present and deal with diverse problems of the two poets of Lesbos. Various questions on already transmitted poems, different readings, reconstructions, and interpretations of the new finds are proposed, but, most importantly, new approaches in general topics, such as the division of Sappho’s work in Books, the logic leading to this division, the order of these Books, the contents of each of them, the interpretation of the surviving fragments, often quite different than before. A feature that characterizes the old-age poetry of Sappho is her anxiety about the posthumous fate of her poetry and her hope that Kleïs, her only daughter, will ensure its dissemination. Finally, the author investigates the communal festival of Hera in Lesbos, a festival performed in common with Zeus and Dionysus, the so-called “Lesbian Triad”. The festival is specified as a welcome to the season of spring at the time of the vernal equinox. Also, the location of the temenos of Hera is investigated, close to Pyrrha of Lesbos, which was the site of Alcaeus’ second exile.
Download or read book Appeal to the English speaking public on behalf of a new English dictionary by G Wheelwright written by George Wheelwright and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary written by Peter Gilliver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources--including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony--to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers' working methods, and provides much information about the people--many of them remarkable individuals--who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.
Download or read book An Argosy of Fables written by Frederic Taber Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables from many countries, including many by Aesop and some "modern fables" by contemporary authors.
Download or read book A James Joyce Chronology written by R. Norburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Chronologies Series aims to provide a means whereby the precise chronological facts of an author's life and career can be seen at a glance. This chronology provides a synopsis of Joyce's first years in Dublin and, from 1900, a more detailed account of his life there and attempts to become established as a writer when living mainly in Trieste and Zurich; and finally (when he became world-famous) Paris, concluding with his death in 1941.
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Download or read book Legalism written by Georgy Kantor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations. Property is often articulated through legalism as a way of thinking that appeals to rules and to generalizing concepts as a way of understanding, responding to, and managing the world around one. An Aristotelian perspective suggests that ownership is the natural state of things and a prerequisite of a true sense of self. An alternative perspective from legal theory puts law at the heart of the origins of property. However, both these points of view are problematic in a wider context, the latter because it rests heavily on Roman law. Anthropological and historical studies enable us to interrogate these assumptions. The articles here, ranging from Roman provinces to modern-day piracy in Somalia, address questions such as: How are legal property regimes intertwined with economic, moral-ethical, and political prerogatives? How far do the assumptions of the western philosophical tradition explain property and ownership in other societies? Is the 'bundle of rights' a useful way to think about property? How does legalism negotiate property relationships and interests between communities and individuals? How does the legalism of property respond to the temporalities and materialities of the objects owned? How are property regimes managed by states, and what kinds of conflicts are thus generated? Property and ownership cannot be reduced to natural rights, nor do they straightforwardly reflect power relations: the rules through which property is articulated tend to be conceptually subtle. As the fourth volume in the Legalism series, this collection draws on common themes that run throughout the first three volumes: Legalism: Anthropology and History, Legalism: Community and Justice, and Legalism: Rules and Categories consolidating them in a framework that suggests a new approach to legal concepts.
Download or read book 20 Years Later written by Wanda Reu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabia held a mysterious power that pulled individuals to the hot sands of the Middle East. Where else could one find the beautiful Arabian horses that could take one flying across the sands? Where else did people live in their beautifully decorated tent dwellings and plan Jihad for their enemies? James was a young American boy who had been trained by his familys Arabian servant and friend to one day go to Arabia to live. That desire grew inside James as James grew to become a man. Most who were drawn to Arabia had no idea of the cost Arabia could exact from you. It could even demand your life. There was much treachery in Arabia because of the lust for power. This was even true in ones own family, as family members were killed to prevent them from rising to power. What was it that drew the heart of James La Faye? Was it a lust for personal power, or was it a desire to see the heart of Arabia changed toward the people of America? Would there always be the hatred and mistrust between the two worlds?
Download or read book Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture written by Jessica Priestley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic writers responding in different ways to Herodotus' work is in part a reflection of the Histories'own broad scope. The Histories remained relevant in this later age and continued to speak meaningfully to a broad range of readers long after Herodotus' death. Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture explores a variety of discourses where Herodotus occupies an important place in the intellectual background, and, in particular, it draws attention to writers not usually categorized as historians in order to broaden our perspectives on Herodotus' cultural importance. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to, for instance, the Persian Wars, geography, the wondrous, aesthetics, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories to serve their own distinct rhetorical goals. The volume also contributes to scholarship that reappraises the very term 'Hellenistic', drawing attention to both diachronic continuities and synchronic diversity in ancient Greek literature.
Download or read book Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus Translated and Illustrated as Well with Sculpture as Notes written by Juvenal and published by . This book was released on 1673 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of the Banaras Weaver written by Vasanthi Raman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana – the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari – the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari industry. As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centre stage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents the dissonance in representations of Banaras as a sacred Hindu city and its essential plural character. The volume • examines in-depth the lives of Banaras Muslims in the social and economic matrix of the sari industry; • highlights how women negotiate between home, family and their place in the artisanal industry; and • sheds light on their fast-changing world of the Banaras weavers and their responses to it. With a new introduction and fresh data, the second edition looks at the subsequent developments in the weaving industry over the last decade. This volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, sociology and South Asian studies.
Download or read book One Hundred Fables in verse by various authors Selected and revised by J Plumptre etc written by One hundred fables and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Centuries of Ballet written by Lincoln Kirstein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of dance's basic components, choreography, gesture, music, costume, and scenery, and discusses the backgrounds of the most important ballets
