Download or read book The Golden Horns written by John L. Greenway and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an introduction to modern myth, The Golden Horns masterfully encompasses a wide circle of historical and literary materials. John Greenway first establishes the theoretical base of his discussion by examining the nature of time in Norse mythic consciousness. After suggesting several ways in which the mythic apprehension of reality conditioned medieval Icelandic narrative, he then elaborates on the dialectical relationship between myth and reason. Maintaining that myth is neither true nor false but always either expressive or not, the author then traces the origin, rise, and fall of two great modern myths of northern birth: seventeenth century Swedish Gothicism and the Ossianic craze of the eighteenth century--both of which illustrate the singular tension in the modern mind between mythic imperatives and the impulse to de-mythologize. Finally, The Golden Horns traces the romantic belief in a "new mythology" which synthesizes myth and reason from its early acceptance through its eventual repudiation. In his conclusions about the state of myth in the modern world, Greenway postulates that we have inherited the romantic respect for myth as truth but lack the romantic faith in transcendence necessary to establish myth's reality. Consequently, we express our mythic consciousness of who we are in quasi-scientific language, consciously manipulating mythic symbols for social control.
Download or read book Horns LP written by Joe Hill and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He awoke the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and two horns growing from his temples.
Download or read book Horns Movie Tie in Edition written by Joe Hill and published by Harper. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and NOS4A2, a relentless supernatural thriller that runs like Hell on wheels . . . Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his one true love. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it's time for revenge . . . It's time the devil had his due . . .
Download or read book People Love Dead Jews Reports from a Haunted Present written by Dara Horn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
Download or read book Bull by the Horns written by Sheila Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former FDIC Chairwoman, and one of the first people to acknowledge the full risk of subprime loans, offers a unique perspective on the greatest crisis the U.S. has faced since the Great Depression.
Download or read book A Horn for Louis written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . . With messages about hard work, persistence, hope, tolerance, cooperation, trust, and friendship, A Horn for Louis is perfect for aspiring young musicians and nonfiction fans alike! History Stepping Stones now feature updated content that emphasizes Common Core and today’s renewed interest in nonfiction. Perfect for home, school, and library bookshelves!
Download or read book The Animal Book written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.
Download or read book Two Horn written by Luke Courtney and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born with only two horns instead of three, Two-Horn has never felt a part of his herd. He's pushed aside and ignored by all the others. But when an unexpected shock comes to his herd, Two-Horn has a chance to show he's every bit as capable as the rest...
Download or read book Horns and Wrinkles written by Joseph Helgerson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you tell if a river's under a spell? River trolls, rock trolls, blue-wing fairies--the usual suspects--the stretch of the Mississippi where Claire lives has rumors of them all, not that she's ever spotted any. But then Claire's cousin Duke takes a swim and sprouts a horn--a long, pointy, handsome thing. After that, Claire doesn't have much choice but to believe that something rivery is going on, especially since she's the only one who can help Duke lose his new addition. In the tradition of grand river adventures, Joseph Helgerson's tale is as twisty and unpredictable as the Mississippi River itself, while an unusual cast of characters adds pepper to the pot. Readers of all ages will enjoy getting in--and out of--trouble with Claire and Duke in this nimble, sharp, and funny fantasy.
Download or read book Pura s Cuentos written by Annette Bay Pimentel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes Pura’s abuela always has a cuento to share. She crows ¡Qui-qui-ri-quí! for Señor Gallo, booms Borom, Borom for Señor Zapo, and tells of a beautiful cockroach who loves a mouse. Pura clings to these stories like coquíes cling to green leaves. When Pura grows up and moves from Puerto Rico to Harlem, she gets a job at the library, where she is surrounded by stories—but they’re only in English. Where is Señor Gallo? Where is Pérez the mouse? Where is Puerto Rico on these shelves? She decides to tell children the tales of her homeland in English and in Spanish. Lyrically written, with lively illustrations, Pura’s Cuentos captures the exuberant spirit and passion of Pura Belpré: celebrated storyteller, author, folklorist, and the first Latina librarian in New York City. A pioneer of bilingual storytimes, she welcomed countless new families to the library, formed cultural bridges in her community, and broke the rules by telling stories that weren’t printed in books—at least, not yet.
Download or read book Voluntary Committal written by Joe Hill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and spooky story about a boy who plays in his bassement, making tunnels out of cardboard boxes, and the unexpected results of his adventures. Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4R2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the co-author, with Stephen King, of In the Tall Grass.
Download or read book The Goat Without Horns written by Thomas Burnett Swann and published by Wildside Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Goat Without Horns" was Thomas Burnett Swann's first book-length work -- a strange tale of a remote island, an island which should be a paradise, but quickly becomes a nightmare in which all known rules of behaviour seem reversed. There, a young man brought up amidst the proprieties of Victorian England finds that his only friend is one small, lonely dolphin...and his enemies include several well-ordered hammerhead sharks...
Download or read book The Ox of the Wonderful Horns written by Ashley Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-31 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spider, frogs, a tortoise, and a magic ox are among the characters in a collection of five traditional tales from Africa.
Download or read book The Emperor s Horn A Magic In The Imperium Novel written by Jordan R. Murray and published by Magic in the Imperium. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millennium after the first Emperor of the Imperium banned the common use of magic, something is stirring--something silent...something powerful. The resurgence of magic touches Herbert Tanasen and Teguin Dorst, who soon find themselves ensnared in a web of secrets.
Download or read book The Story of the Drinking Horn written by Vivian Etting and published by University Press of Southern Denmark. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinking horns in classical antiquity and the Celtic world, a short outline -- The use of drinking horns in Iron Age Scandinavia -- Viking Age drinking horns, mythology and finds -- The revival of drinking horns in the Middle Ages -- Drinking horns in written sources and oral tradition -- Drinking horns in medieval art -- The drinking horn as a national symbol in the Renaissance and the 19th century -- Catalogue of drinking horns in medieval and renaissance collections at the National Museum of Denmark.
Download or read book History of the Horn book written by Andrew White Tuer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horns written by Alexandre Aja and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple star in this fantasy thriller adapted from the novel by Joe Hill and directed by Alexandre Aja. 26-year-old Ignatius 'Ig' Perrish has been accused of the rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams (Temple). After a night of drinking he wakes up to discover horns sprouting from his temples. Though he can't understand why they have appeared, Ig soon realises that the horns have the ability to make people admit their darkest secrets and act on selfish desires. He decides to prove his innocence by using this new power to find Merrin's real killer and exact revenge. The cast also includes Heather Graham, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson and David Morse.
