Download or read book The Niobe Poems written by Kate Daniels and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.
Download or read book The Works of Charles Lamb Specimens of English dramatic poets written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Specimens of English dramatic poets written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ovid As An Epic Poet written by Brooks Otis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.
Download or read book Erathune 1 written by Sebastian A. Jones and published by Stranger Comics. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many years ago, Buxton Stonebeard was banished from his dwarven home amid a shower of blood. But his cursed axe demands a soul, and so the outcast must return. Accompanied by Skarlok, his unlikely Morkai ally, and Niobe, a budding hero, Buxton must save the town that condemned him.
Download or read book Works Specimens of English dramatic poets written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare All s lost by lust A new wonder written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Lamb s Specimens of English Dramatic Poets written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War with God written by Pramit Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining literary accounts of theomachy (literally "god-fight"), The War With God provides a new perspective on the canonical literary traditions of epic and tragedy, and will be of great interest to scholars in Classics as well as those working on the European epic and tragic traditions. The struggle between human and god has always held a prominent place in classical literature, especially in the closely related genres of epic and tragedy, ranging from the physical confrontation of Achilles with the river-god Scamander in Iliad 21 to Pentheus' more figurative challenge to Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae. Yet perhaps the most intense engagement with theomachy occurs in Latin literature of the 1st century AD, which included not only the overreachers of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hannibal's assault on Capitoline Jupiter in Silius Italicus' Punica, but also, in the richest and most extended treatments of the theme, the transgressive figures of Hercules in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Capaneus and Hippomedon in Statius' Thebaid. This book, therefore, explores the presence of theomachy in Roman imperial poetry, focusing on Seneca and Statius, and sets it within a tradition going back through the Augustan age all the way to archaic Greece. The central argument of the book is that theomachy symbolizes various conflicts of authority: the poets' attempts to outdo their literary predecessors, the contentions of rival philosophical views, and the violent assertions of power that characterized both autocratic authority and its opposition. By drawing on evidence from literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, this project reveals the various influences that shaped the intellectual and cultural significance of theomachy: from Stoic and Epicurean debates about the gods to the divinization of the emperor, from poetic competition with Vergil and Homer to tyranny and revolution under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
Download or read book The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Dramatic specimens and the Garrick plays written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Epic in American Culture written by Christopher N. Phillips and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking study, Christopher N. Phillips shows in often surprising ways how this exalted classical form proved as vital to American culture as it did to the great societies of the ancient world. Through close readings of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, as well as the transcendentalists, Phillips traces the rich history of epic in American literature and art from early colonial times to the late nineteenth century. Phillips shows that far from fading in the modern age, the epic form was continuously remade to frame a core element of American cultural expression. He finds the motive behind this sustained popularity in the historical interrelationship among the malleability of the epic form, the idea of a national culture, and the prestige of authorship—a powerful dynamic that extended well beyond the boundaries of literature. By locating the epic at the center of American literature and culture, Phillips’s imaginative study yields a number of important finds: the early national period was a time of radical experimentation with poetic form; the epic form was crucial to the development of constitutional law and the professionalization of visual arts; engagement with the epic synthesized a wide array of literary and artistic forms in efforts to launch the United States into the arena of world literature; and a number of writers shaped their careers around revising the epic form for their own purposes. Rigorous archival research, careful readings, and long chronologies of genre define this magisterial work, making it an invaluable resource for scholars of American studies, American poetry, and literary history.
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