Download or read book The World s Heritage of Epical Heroic and Romantic Literature written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Heritage of Epical Heroic and Romantic Literature Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, Vol. 2 of 2 The volume closes with Don Quixote, that famous and immortal satire of knight-errantry and decadent romance, which has long been a classic not only in Spain but in almost every country in Europe and in the Americas. Its influence on modern literature can scarcely be overestimated. Cervantes lingers at the elbow of every writer of poetry or prose as a friendly critic, who throws ridicule on false poses and empty bombast, and urges that salvation may be found in the realities of life without necessarily forgetting high ideals of thought and action. Although essentially a humorist, he was also a great teacher, who by precept and example showed that enthusiasm does not necessarily justify itself, however intensive it may be, and that great literature need not involve slavish attachment to the manners and customs of the past. Withal he was a supreme master of style, whose whole heart was devoted to perfecting his art. As he was, therefore, a constructive as well as a destructive critic, it is appropriate that such a volume as this should be brought to a close in the healthy atmosphere of his gentle irony and not unkindly humour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The World s Heritage of Epical Heroic and Romantic Literature written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Heritage of Epical Heroic and Romantic Literature Volume 1 written by Donald Alexander MacKenzie and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book WORLDS HERITAGE OF EPICAL HERO written by Donald Alexander 1873-1936 MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nordic Sagas as Children s Literature written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature they inspired, some of which are canonical while others are forgotten. It covers authors like William Morris, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Gray, Walter Scott, H. Rider Haggard, W.H. Auden, John Greenleef Whittier and more. In lavish volumes and modest schoolbooks, British and American writers claimed Nordic heritage and explored Nordic traditions. The sagas offered a rich and wide-ranging source for these authors: Volsunga saga's Sigurd the dragon slayer; King Olaf's saga of opposing Nordic Gods and Christianity; Frithiof's model of headstrong youth beset with unfair opposition and lost love. Grettir and Njal tell of men who accepted fate and met conflict and enemies unflinchingly; Aslaug, Gudrida, Hallberga and Hervar exerted remarkable influence; and Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky provided Americans with a Nordic heritage of discovery.
Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Winged Man written by Moyra Caldecott and published by Bladud Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, throughout the ancient city of Bath, there exist statues and images of the man who was the legendary founder of the city, and the father of King Lear. A leper and a swineherd... a necromancer and a wise king... his memory lives on. Restless at the royal court, the young Prince Bladud sets off to consult an oracle in the west country - a wild wooded place near a mysterious hot spring that gushes from a cave. There the priestess tells him that he will be a great king, and that one day he will fly like an eagle. When he returns to his father's hill-fort at Trinovantum, ancient London, Bladud's head is full of magnificent dreams... until trickery entraps him in a loveless marriage. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge, sharpened by a mysterious experience at the burial mound of his forefathers, takes him away from his home and wife on a dangerous journey to faraway Greece. There he meets and falls in love with a woman who has appeared to him many times already in dreams and visions. On returning to his own country, he finds his father dying and his wife conspiring with his brother to disinherit him. Then, found to be suffering from a disease believed to be leprosy, he is driven from the court and shunned by his people. In this dark time he becomes a swineherd. One day, he notices his pigs are free of sores after wallowing in hot mud. He tries the healing waters of Sul himself, is cured, and returns to claim his throne... His was a golden age of wisdom and magic, where Otherworld beings mingle freely with the people of this world, and where swans and ravens and owls take on their own special mysterious significance. Full of brilliant imagination, this colourful fantasy draws its strength and inspiration from the strange and beautiful realms of Celtic and Greek myth and legend.
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years 1916 1920 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Literature written by Francelia Butler and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution and Evaluation of Epics in Tamil written by Irā Kācirācan̲ and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History as the Story of Freedom written by Clark Butler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to advance responsible rehabilitation of the speculative philosophy of history. It challenges the idea popularized by thinkers such as and Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean-François Lyotard that historical meta-mythology and meta-narrative are philosophically obsolete. As long as humanity, viewed anthropologically, lives by over-arching narrative, the quest for a version that survives rational criticism remains vital. Here human rights serve as the key to unlock such a version. Despite the fact that the Hegelian philosophy of history has often been derided, something very similar currently functions as the official ideology of the world community: the idea of history as the story of freedom. This book does not retell the world-historical story of freedom. Rather, it uncovers it, beginning with the current age of human rights and working backward through the great role-model civilizations of history. Its conclusion is that a forward retelling of the story of freedom as the story of human rights can be justified by dewesternizing the story. The book contains critical responses from specialized scholars and re-presentative of selected world cultures. The volume includes illustrations, and a guest Afterword by Donald Phillip Verene. It is a companion-volume to the author's Hegel's Logic: Between History and Dialectic (North-western University Press, 1996).
Download or read book Terry Pratchett s Ethical Worlds written by Kristin Noone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous self-examination and creation. This collection of essays uses inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of collaborative writing and shared authorship, steampunk aesthetics, productive modes of "ownership," intertextuality, neomedievalism and colonialism, adaptations into other media, linguistics and rhetorics, and coming of age as an act of free will.
