Download or read book PROUD GODS AND COMMODORES Volume II written by James McMillan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-03-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.

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Download or read book Proud Gods and Commodores written by James McMillan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Proud Gods and Commodores' is a collection of modern poetry and epic tales written by Dr. James McMillan, the poetry exhibiting a wide range of styles and purposes, and the tales though modern in appeal are written in a timeless and captivating epic style that brings to mind such classics as Beowulf, The Iliad, and Paradise Lost.

Download or read book Proud Gods and Commodores written by James McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debuting author invites readers to immerse themselves in an enthusiastic weaving of poetry and narrative. ... Alternating between booming classical mythologies and contemporary accessible voices... - Kirkus Review McMillan immerses the reader in multiple styles of poetry and epic tales, plus characters that leap into life and all its consequences, from despondent even suicidal, to recovery, to mystery, to love, and sometimes even to absolute triumph, plus a healthy dose of what he calls "gnarly Haiku", trying to compress so much into so little. - AuthorHouse ... A topsy-turvy view of pop culture and literature in the grand tradition Surrealists and Dadaists... - Kirkus Review His style is not poetry nor narrative not stream-of-consciousness, but one he hopes to carry the reader as if on a river, faster and slower, with twists and turns, and maybe a few rapids just for the hell of it. Come on in and see what you think.

Download or read book Proud Gods and Commodores written by James McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was young I ran with San Francisco's counter-culture revolutionaries, wanting to burn it all down, even a trek to Cuba for a radical meeting with Fidel, cutting sugar cane with him, then at dinner all of us eagerly listening to his self-serving yet sometimes rhapsodic even humorous exhortations on "El Pueblo" and revolution, unleashing within us that 'Ubermensch Derangement Syndrome, ' that your humanity is somehow greater than another's humanity, therefore empowering you over them, including of course a lynch-mob if necessary, because people are suffering. Later because of injury I virtually fell into Chiropractic college, a Damascus experience, Saul to Paul. Though this book is not about Chiropractic at all, it does reflect the profound change its study and holistic philosophy inspired in me. What an adjustment is to the body, a good poem is to the soul. A number of poems in this collection are what's called 'maguffins, ' which is an old Alfred Hitchcock term for plot devices, that is hinges upon which the plot swings but really themselves are not essential to the story. A classic example is the stolen money in "Psycho," or the gold or whatever it is in the briefcase of "Pulp Fiction," or even one could say the blackbird itself in the movie "Maltese Falcon," or The Memphis Belle in "Memphis Belle," all just devices to evolve the characters and move the story, yet in themselves are not really essential to the story, or especially to character resolution, just devices to keep things moving along, as opposed to HAL in "2001," a villain at the time when society was paranoid about computers, but 30 years into it, the computer age, HAL redeems himself in "2010," itself a disappointing and pretentious film in which HAL's redemption, courage and self- sacrifice are the most interesting, most noble, and by far the most moving of all the human interactions of that film, ...just saying. Several poems in this collection, especially the first, 'The Rape of Athena, ' and all of the tales are exactly that- maguffins- their ostensibly written by various characters in the two epic sagas I am currently writing, as well as the several excerpts in these volumes taken directly from those sagas:

Download or read book Sea Brothers written by Bert Bender and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a central vision within the tradition and showing how particular authors draw from, transform, and contribute to it. What is most distinctive about American sea fiction, Bender contends, is its visionary, often mystical, response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. When Melville envisioned the sea as the essential element of life, indeed as life itself, he changed the course of American sea fiction by introducing the relevance of biological thought. But his meditations on the whale and "the ungraspable phantom of life" project a different reality from that envisioned by his successors. In American sea fiction after Melville, the influence of Origin of Species is as powerful as that of Moby Dick or the theme of sailing ships being displaced by steam. The ideal of brotherhood so central to American sea fiction was severely compromised by the biological reality of a competitive, warring nature. Twentieth-century sea fiction has continued to center on the biological world and address the possibility of democratic brotherhood, but the issues were fundamentally changed by Darwin's theories. This book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of American literature and will interest readers of sea fiction.

Download or read book The Weaver God He Weaves written by Christopher Sten and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author sets out to dispel the idea that Melville was an author of raw genius who knew, or cared little, about the art of the novel. Rather, he shows how Melville not only knew about the novelist's craft, but also appropriated and transformed a series of distinct genres.

Download or read book Moby Dick written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sacred Uncertainty written by Brian Yothers and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yothers’ Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville’s engagement with religious difference, both within American culture and around the world. It is impossible to understand Melville’s wider engagement with religious and cultural questions, however, without understanding the fundamental tension between self and society, self and others that underlies his work, and that is manifested in particular in the way in which he interacts with other writers. There is almost certainly no more concrete or reliable way to get at Melville’s affirmations of and arguments with these interlocutors than in the markings and annotations that appear in his copies of many of their works, so Yothers examines Melville’s marginalia for clues to Melville’s thinking about self, other, and difference. Sacred Uncertainty provides a much needed exploration of Melville’s encounter with and reflection upon religious difference.

Download or read book Melville Shame and the Evil Eye written by Joseph Adamson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd."

Download or read book 3 books to know Sea Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Sea Stories. - Moby Dick by Herman Melville - The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan PoeMoby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. The Pilot, in full The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea, novel by James Fenimore Cooper, published in two volumes in 1823. The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the American Revolution, launched a whole genre of maritime fiction. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics

Download or read book Needing Isaiah s God in Troubled Times written by Carole Streeter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time has come, Isaiah said, to talk of many things, Of shanties in the garden patch and ships and foreign kings, Of rivers, seas, and flowing streams, of lions, ewes, and lambs, Of pelicans and porcupines, of owls and wild goats, Of people tall and smooth of skin, of scorching drought and rain, Of words that judge and words that weep and words that sing, Of sovereignty and covenant, and One who reigns forevermore. Approaching Isaiah through his words used often is like entering an ivy-covered side door that no one has opened recently. In her reflections on the twelve words, Carole Streeter draws from the prophets love for Yahweh and Israel and the natural world and love for the past, present, and all that is to come in Gods wondrous kingdom.

Download or read book Maritime Classics Boxed Set 46 Sea Adventures Novels in One Volume written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 8909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique and meticulously edited adventure collection: Content: Randall Parrish: Wolves of the Sea Charles Boardman Hawes: The Dark Frigate The Mutineers Jack London: The Sea Wolf The Mutiny of the Elsinore A Son of the Sun Walter Scott: The Pirate Captain Charles Johnson: The History of Pirates R. L. Stevenson: Treasure Island Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Tobias Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random Frederick Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the "Pacific" Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket James Fenimore Cooper: The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea The Red Rover Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale Miles Wallingford Homeward Bound; Or, The Chase: A Tale of the Sea Thomas Mayne Reid: The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Victor Hugo: Toilers of the Sea Herman Melville: Redburn White-Jacket Moby Dick Benito Cereno R. M. Ballantyne: The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Fighting the Whales Jules Verne: The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant 20 000 Leagues under the Sea Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen An Antarctic Mystery L. Frank Baum: Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Lord Jim Typhoon The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous Ralph Henry Barbour: The Adventure Club Afloat Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood The Sea-Hawk Jeffery Farnol: Black Bartlemy's Treasure Martin Conisby's Vengeance Henry De Vere Stacpoole: The Blue Lagoon The Garden of God

Download or read book Mania for Freedom written by John Mac Kilgore and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841. While this statement may read like an innocuous truism today, the claim would have been controversial in the antebellum United States when enthusiasm was a hotly contested term associated with religious fanaticism and poetic inspiration, revolutionary politics and imaginative excess. In analyzing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion, politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasm linked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicled here fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings to forge international or antinationalistic political affiliations. Pushing his analysis across national boundaries, Kilgore contends that American enthusiastic literature, unlike the era's concurrent sentimental counterpart, stressed democratic resistance over domestic reform as it navigated the global political sphere. By analyzing a range of canonical American authors--including William Apess, Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman--Kilgore places their works in context with the causes, wars, and revolutions that directly or indirectly engendered them. In doing so, he makes a unique and compelling case for enthusiasm's centrality in the shaping of American literary history.

Download or read book The Possibility of America written by David Dark and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the years following 9/11, David Darks book The Gospel according to America warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God. It delved deeply into the political divide that had gripped the country and the cultural captivity into which so many American churches had fallen. In our current political season, the problems Dark identified have blossomed. The assessment he brought to these problems and the creative resources for resisting them are now more important than ever. Into this new political landscape and expanding on the analysis of The Gospel according to America, Dark offers The Possibility of America: How the Gospel Can Mend Our God-Blessed, God-Forsaken Land. Dark expands his vision of a fractured yet redeemable American Christianity, bringing his signature mix of theological, cultural, and political analysis to white supremacy, evangelical surrender, and other problems of the Trump era.

Download or read book Best of Classics Set of 5 Books Tender is the Night The Waste Land Moby Dick Down and Out in Paris and London The Old Curiosity Shop written by Fitzgerald and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 3597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of Classics: Collection of George Orwell;T. S. Eliot;Herman Melville;Fitzgerald, F. Scott;Charles Dickens This Combo Collection (Set of 5 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Tender is the Night: Tender Is the Night Popular novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Waste Land Moby Dick: Herman Melville's All time Bestseller Classic: Moby Dick or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville (Best Motivational ... Personal Development (Design Your Life) Down and Out in Paris and London: George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London all time Bestseller Book (Revised) The Old Curiosity Shop

Download or read book World s Greatest Classics in One Volume written by Herman Hesse and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 40892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki...