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Book Morgante

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luigi Pulci
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2000-09-22
  • ISBN : 9780253214072
  • Pages : 1018 pages

Download or read book Morgante written by Luigi Pulci and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic picaresque epic detailing the thrilling exploits of Orlando, Morgante is a tale of war and of the calamities that befall the romantic hero, his fellow knights, and their sovereign, Charlemagne. After encountering the fierce Morgante, Orlando converts the giant, who then becomes his squire and trusted companion. This annotated English translation will lead to a new appreciation of Luigi Pulci's singular epic masterpiece and contribute to a reassessment of the author's influence on modern English literature.

Book Epic and Empire

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  • Author : David Quint
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-12
  • ISBN : 0691222959
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Epic and Empire written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.

Book Boileau s Lutrin

Download or read book Boileau s Lutrin written by Nicolas Boileau Despréaux and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Papal Conspiracy Exposed  and Protestantism Defended

Download or read book The Papal Conspiracy Exposed and Protestantism Defended written by Edward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Petrarch s Africa

Download or read book Petrarch s Africa written by Francesco Petrarca and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Download or read book An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism written by Catharine Esther Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Beecher takes issue with the call for women's active involvement in the abolition movement, her discussion reveals the inter-relationship between 19th century abolitionism and 19th century feminism.

Book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Upsaliensis

Download or read book Acta Conventus Neo Latini Upsaliensis written by ALEJANDRO COROLEU and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere Reception and Innovation. Ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.

Book Athalie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Racine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Athalie written by Jean Racine and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Acharnians

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  • Author : Aristophanes
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 1625580681
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book The Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Book Alderdene

    Book Details:
  • Author : Norris Paul
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Alderdene written by Norris Paul and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belief in God

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  • Author : Minot Judson Savage
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Belief in God written by Minot Judson Savage and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Review of the  spiritual Manifestations

Download or read book A Review of the spiritual Manifestations written by Charles Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of Riots at Alton

Download or read book Narrative of Riots at Alton written by Edward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mandement de Monseigneur l archev  que de Paris  qui ordonne des pri  res publiques pour le succ  s de l exp  dition d Alger  et pour attirer les b  n  dictions de Dieu sur l    lection g  n  rale des d  put  s du royaume et sur la session des chambres

Download or read book Mandement de Monseigneur l archev que de Paris qui ordonne des pri res publiques pour le succ s de l exp dition d Alger et pour attirer les b n dictions de Dieu sur l lection g n rale des d put s du royaume et sur la session des chambres written by Église catholique and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mandement de M  le r  v  rendissime archev  que de Tours  qui ordonne des pri  res publiques pour la prosp  rit   des armes de S  M  l empereur et roi

Download or read book Mandement de M le r v rendissime archev que de Tours qui ordonne des pri res publiques pour la prosp rit des armes de S M l empereur et roi written by Eglise catholique and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: