Download or read book Dreams and Tragedies written by Nicole L. Hendrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurie and Mandy Winters have their entire world turned inside out, with a single phone call. Their parents were involved in a serious car accident; both lives are uncertain. As their journey progresses, Laurie loses control on her world as her younger sister loses grip on reality. Laurie suddenly finds extra support from an unexpected friend, someone that she never imagined that she would meet. With her encouraging words, will Laurie be able to pull Mandy back to them or will she be lost to them forever?
Download or read book The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy written by William Stuart Messer and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE Department of Classical Philology of Columbia University has approved this monograph as a contribution to knowledge worthy of publication. We are happy to agree, and we hope that Mr. Messer will be able to fulfill his promise of further contributions to his chosen subject. He was led to the study of the dreams in Greek literature by the discovery -- which every serious student of Latin literature will make -- that without Greek you cannot get far into Latin; for he first set out to investigate Roman dreams (see "Mnemosyne," 45, 78-92). His present work is really introductory to a more general study of the ancient dream, especially as portrayed in Latin literature. It deals particularly with the dreams in Homer, Hesiod, and the Tragedians, (I) as a part of the machinery, a motive force in the development of action, narrative, plot, and (2) as artistic ends in themselves, more or less complete, more or less refined, more or less natural or artificial. The author has collected, for his own purposes, all dreams and references to dreams that he can find in Greek or Latin literature down to the second century A.D., and his footnotes give proof of his wide reading and of the intrinsic interest of his materials. His style is somewhat inelegant, and his arrangement unattractive. His method is to plough solemnly through the whole field, noting and discussing each dream as it appears. Accordingly there is too much repetition, and a bewildering abundance of cross-references. If only he had added a short chapter summarizing his results, his work would have been more likely to be recognised for what it is -- a very sound and useful piece of not particularly inspired research. That the author is no mere compiler is shown by many touches of just literary appreciation. He is at his best in pointing out that Penelope's dream of geese and eagle (Odyssey XIX.) is unlike other dreams in Homer, an allegorical vision which demands interpretation, "a new departure for the epic, and a model for the allegorical dreams of tragedy.' The second part, in which the eagle returns and announces him as Odysseus, is in the manner of the older type, the objective dream which tells its own tale without any mystery; and this addition, Mr. Messer thinks, is an indication that the poet felt uneasy about the introduction of the new technique (pp. 33-4). Excellent, again, is the remark (p. 57) that 'the immediate source of the dream in tragedy is to be found not in religion and cult, but in the literature.' So is the discussion (p. 81 ff.) of the dream in Sophocles' "Electra," where the old literary motif is adapted, not so much for its mechanical effect upon the plot as for its value as a means and an excuse for the portrayal of character. Finally, the description of the dream in Euripides' "Iphigenia in Tauris" as approximating to 'the highly chiseled miniatures in which the Alexandrian period delights, ' strikes me as just and illuminating. Where Mr. Messer sticks to the literature and his own commonsense, his work is sound and useful. Sometimes, unfortunately, he is led, like most of us, into the dangerous by-paths of cult-conjecture....--"The Classical Review," Volume 33
Download or read book Dreams in Greek Tragedy written by George Devereux and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Why Wait written by Rob Quillen and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every once in a while, a chance meeting changes your life. Every once in a while, you get a chance to change other people's lives. On Sept. 10, 2001, author Rob Quillen had a chance meeting day that changed his life forever. Now ten years later, Why Wait?, his personal 9/11 story of fulfilling a young boy's dream from tragedy is an inspiration for everyone to help change other people's lives. On a flight from Denver to Newark, N.J, Rob Quillen made the acquaintance of Captain Jason Dahl who would be piloting United Airlines Flight 93 the next day when it crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa. during the tragic events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. During the flight, without an inkling of the tragedy that was to come, the two men became close friends, talking about dreams and what the future might hold. Quillen was wearing a Jeff Gordon polo shirt that sparked a conversation about NASCAR. Dahl and his son, Matt, dreamed of going to a NASCAR race and meeting their hero, driver Jeff Gordon. Quillen invited Jason and his son Matt to a NASCAR race in Kansas later that month, Jason accepted the tickets. When Captain Dahl died the next day, Quillen promised himself that he would make Jason's and Matt's dream come true. He wanted Matt to not only go the NASCAR race, but he wanted to ensure that Matt got to meet Jeff Gordon. Rob details how the events unfolded about Matt's dream trip to a NASCAR race with the help of many people, including NASCAR, ESPN and NBC television and he sends a powerful message to everyone who reads his book. All of us have an amazing ability to help other people's dreams come true. We all have the ability to make a difference in someone's life. So, Why Wait? Start helping to change another's life today.
Download or read book Ghosts and Dreams in the Renaissance Drama A Comparison Between Selected Tragedies written by Tinani Van Niekerk and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: Gut, University of Bonn (Institut f r Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie), course: Revenge in the Renaissance, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Sinister, unearthly, sometimes even all-knowing: Ghosts and metaphysical entities accompany stories, legends and and superstitious tales throughout the centuries. They are doomed as evil and satanic, or used to illustrate morality by "settling" their earthly bussiness with human evil-doers. They might even be good, yet can never completely to be trusted. Their connection with the dead makes them attractive as characters with powers above the human boundries. In the Elizabethan drama as in contrast to modern dramas, supernatural events and entities such as ghosts, apparitions, dreams and visions play a major and sometimes even crucial role in the plot. In this paper I would like to take a closer look at the Elizabethan fascination with the "unseen", how authors implemented it into their plays and what roles these ghosts and dreams played. Introductory I will look at the general view of the unnatrural from the Renaissance perspective. In order to stay within the proper range of this paper I have chosen a selection of four tragedies written by four different playwrights. In each of the plays, a ghostly character appears, mostly in dreamlike visions. I would like to discuss the scenes in which these characters appear and compare the characters with another in the conclusion of the paper.
Download or read book The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy Classic Reprint written by William Stuart Messer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy I believe that few of the discussions of the dream, generally accessible, have escaped my examination. Furthermore, I have made a collection of the passages in Greek and Latin literature in which dreams are related in full or in which reference is made to dreams, scarcely short of entire completeness, down through the first quarter Of the second century, so that on any point the guiding principle of a knowledge of how the dream has been treated elsewhere has always been available. On the basis of this reading I have, in the footnotes, defended positions taken in the text and discussed allied aspects of the dream, contenting myself, however, with the citation of authorities and parallel passages which may be looked upon as illustrative rather than as exhaustive. The study Of the art and the structure Of poetry concerns itself with a great number Of smaller problems of technique, of which that involved in the use of the dream is one. The solu tion of the problems Of the technique of the dream, then, will to some extent throw light upon that larger field. 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 Dreams in Greek Tragedy written by George Devereux and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy written by William Stuart Messer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy This treatise is part of a broader investigation of the dream in all its aspects, literary and non-literary, to which I have devoted the spare hours of the last seven years. My primary interest in this investigation has been in the dream and its ways in Latin literature. A study published in Mnemosyne, 45, 78- 92, in which I suggested a possible source for one feature of a certain type of Roman dream, may be taken as defining to some extent my interest in the dream from the literary standpoint as well as presenting my conclusions with respect to the problems involved in the particular dream considered in that study. But to treat adequately the dream in Latin literature presupposes a knowledge of its ancestor and prototype in Greek literature, and so the present introductory monograph embodies one phase of my researches in the earlier field. It discusses some aspects of the dream in a portion of that field - Homer, Hesiod and Greek Tragedy. It concerns itself with the dream as an originating cause or directing principle of the action in poem or play, a moving force in the evolution of narrative or plot and in the introduction of smaller incidents and episodes. An American scholar has recently complained of the lack of a proper study of the matter of motivation in Greek and Latin tragedy and comedy. This essay touches upon a limited portion of that larger investigation. From another point of view it deals, within the limits of each dream picture, with the amplification of the dream, its increasing complexity, its growth and refinement, or its decay, as an artistic literary device. I hope at no far distant date to publish further studies in other aspects of the dream. 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 Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy written by William Stuart Messer and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 126 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 Shakespeare s Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dreams and Realities written by Mildred Santiago-Vélez and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many young girls growing up in the 1950s, author Mildred Santiago-Vlez dreamed of a perfect life with the perfect husband and perfect children. But reality interrupted those dreams and caused her to face a tragedy she had never imagined. In Dreams and Realities, she narrates her story and the devastating events that marked and changed her lifea life that centers on love, loss, and resiliency. In this memoir, Mildred tells about her family life in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born, and of living most of her adult life in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Dreams and Realities shares how Mildred did find a perfect husband and thought she had the perfect children. But she soon discovered that her precious Yvonne, Maritza, and Eddie Jr. were afflicted with a rare type of muscle disease that caused them to die in infancy. Her dream was shattered. A story of joy, dreams, disappointments, pain, and grief, Dreams and Realities describes how these heartbreaking events changed Mildred, and it recounts the choices she made to overcome her adverse circumstances to become a testimony to the power of love and faith.
Download or read book Principles of Shakespearian Production with Special Reference to the Tragedies written by George Wilson Knight and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
