Download or read book A Series of EPIC Stories written by Robert Hendy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages live twenty-two short stories crafted by twenty-two authors. Each provides a unique glimpse into the mind and writing style of a budding young writer. As our title suggests, this anthology is filled with a series of adventurous, heart-warming, dramatic, thought-provoking, and altogether charming stories. We welcome you to delve into the themes and depth of this writing, or simply sit back and enjoy the sincerity of young writers. Completed as part of 2018Õs annual NaNoWriMo competition, these narratives represent the perseverance, hard work, and determination of twenty-two outstanding Grade 7 and 8 students at Forest View Public School in Oshawa Ontario. It is with great pleasure that we present this anthology to the world. May you have as much fun reading as we did writing.
Download or read book Epic written by John Joseph Adams and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a sickness in the land. Prophets tell of the fall of empires, the rise of champions. Great beasts stir in vaults beneath the hills, beneath the waves. Armies mass. Gods walk. The world will be torn asunder. Epic fantasy is storytelling at its biggest and best. From the creation myths and quest sagas of ancient times to the mega-popular fantasy novels of today, these are the stories that express our greatest hopes and fears, that create worlds so rich we long to return to them again and again, and that inspire us with their timeless values of courage and friendship in the face of ultimate evil—tales that transport us to the most ancient realms and show us the most noble sacrifices, the most astonishing wonders. Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams (Wastelands, The Living Dead) brings you seventeen tales by today’s leading authors of epic fantasy, including George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire), Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea), Robin Hobb (Realms of Elderlings), Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars), Tad Williams (Of Memory, Sorrow & Thorn), Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle), and more. Return again to lands you’ve loved or visit magical new worlds. Victory against the coming darkness is never certain, but one thing’s for sure—your adventure will be epic.
Download or read book The Book of the Epic The World s Great Epics Told in Story written by Hélène Guerber and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic written by Deborah Beck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that complements the epic mythological story is re-imagined afresh in relation to the themes of each epic poem. As Deborah Beck argues in this stimulating book, over time a simile world takes shape across many poems composed over many centuries. This evolving landscape resembles the epic story world of battles, voyages, and heroes that comes into being through relationships among different epic poems. Epic narrative is woven from a warp of the mythological story world and a weft of the simile world. They are partners in creating the fabric of epic poetry.
Download or read book Epic of Qayaq written by Lela Oman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.
Download or read book Epic written by Paul Innes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary epic and pointing towards the future, this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Milton, Cervantes, Keats, Byron, Eliot, Walcott and Tolkien texts from poems, novels, children's literature, tv, theatre and film themes and motifs such as romance, tragedy, religion, journeys and the supernatural.
Download or read book The Epic Story of the Bible written by Greg Gilbert and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A User-Friendly Introduction to Interpreting and Understanding God's Word Many Christians view the Bible as a book that they know they should read, but it can be hard to know where to start. If they spend time regularly reading it, it can often feel like a chore to be checked off for the day. What many miss is that the Bible is a sweeping story full of narrative, poetry, and letters—something to be marveled at and enjoyed. In The Epic Story of the Bible, Greg Gilbert aims to teach Christians—or those interested in Christianity—what the Bible is and how to study it. Adapted from the ESV Story of Redemption Bible, Gilbert examines major themes woven throughout Scripture and shows readers how to understand its various genres, helping them appreciate the word of God with less confusion and greater confidence. Download Reading Plan Accessible: Written in an approachable and easy-to-read format Ideal for New Christians or Interested Non-Christians: A good introduction to understanding the Bible for those wanting to take the next step in learning more about their faith Gospel-Oriented: Points readers to the gospel for the purpose of deeper understanding and worship Examines Major Scriptural Themes: Gilbert shows how themes such as God's presence, covenant, kingship, and sacrifice are woven throughout Scripture
Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Epic written by John Miles Foley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A Companion to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic traditions Considers the interrelation between these different traditions Provides a balanced overview of longstanding ideas and newer perspectives in the study of epic Shows how scholarship over the last forty years has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre Covers recently introduced topics, such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition The editor and contributors are leading scholars in the field Includes a detailed index of poems, poets, technical terms, and important figures and events
Download or read book Performing Epic or Telling Tales written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is less on 'what' the recent epic turn in the theatre consists of than 'why' it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also to earlier performance traditions and, notably, to recent theoretical debates relating to text-based 'drama' and performance based 'theatre'. What is perhaps most remarkable about this epic turn is not simply the sheer number of outstanding performances that it has produced; it is also that recent practice appears to have outstripped much theoretical discussion about theatre. In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to ballet, from the use of machines and technology to performances that make space for voices occluded by the ancient epics, Performing Epic or Telling Tales seeks to contextualize and explain the 'narrative'/storytelling (re-)turn in recent live performances - a turn that regularly entails engagement with ancient Graeco-Roman epics, which have long provided poets, playwrights, artists, and theatre makers with a storehouse of rich, often perceived as 'raw', material. Refigured and refracted for the modern era, the epics of ancient Greece and Rome are found to be particularly revealing, and particularly 'telling' of the contemporary wider cultural sphere.
Download or read book Epic everyday written by Sarah Cardwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship. Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Epic / everyday explores the presence within television of the epic and the everyday. It argues that attention to ideas of the epic and notions of the everyday can illuminate television programmes in new ways. The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, including Game of Thrones, Lost and Dr Who. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.
Download or read book The Iliad written by Homer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new publication of the definitive translation of Homer's epic brings the ancient poem to life, chronicling the Greek siege of the Trojan city state and the war that ensued.
Download or read book Selected List of Books written by Ontario Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epic Poetry in Swahili written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Epic World written by Pamela Lothspeich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
Download or read book Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in the interests of university and worlds congress extension.
Download or read book Epic Adventure Stories written by Buster Sniezek and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure fiction is a genre of fiction that usually presents a danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Cairn, still holding on to the other, stooped over the discolored face. It had been a pretty face when warm life had tinted its curves; now it was congested--awful; two heavy discolorations showed
