Download or read book Heroic Couples written by Nathan Highfill and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two college roommates, one a magazine columnist and the other an erstwhile professional wrestler who has written an exposé about the underside of the wrestling world and has become famous, reunite to attend the wedding of the columnist's former girlfriend, a faded professional mannequin who is marrying a housepainter enamored with his involvement in a get rich quick pyramid scheme. Events descend into farcical catastrophe as personal enmities can no longer be contained and Ripley Bradley, former wrestler, does his heroic best to rectify the situation. The work is accompanied by several abortive attempts by the first person narrator to create epic poems based on his pathetic experience in a transparent attempt to elevate his struggle from its endemic absurdity to a more tragic and profound state. The story itself is piggybacked on an allegory about the futility and cupidity of the concept underlying Manifest Destiny. The story travels, in an homage to picaresque comic novels of the nineteenth century, from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Dallas, Texas setting up several nods to Jamesian comedies of manners and class comedies from the Restoration.
Download or read book Heroic Offerings written by Gina Salapata and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class of terracotta votive offerings from a specific sanctuary, Gina Salapata explores both coroplastic art and regional religion. By integrating archaeological, historical, literary, and epigraphic sources, she provides important insights into the heroic cults of Lakonia and contributes to an understanding of the political and social functions of local ritual practice. This volume focuses on a large group of decorated terracotta plaques, from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE. These molded plaques were discovered with other offerings in a sanctuary deposit excavated near Sparta more than fifty years ago, but they have remained unpublished until now. They number over 1,500 complete and fragmentary pieces. In technique, style, and iconography they form a homogeneous group unlike any other from mainland Greece. The large number of plaques and variety of types reveal a stable and vigorous coroplastic tradition in Lakonia during the late Archaic and Classical period. Heroic Offerings will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek history, art, and archaeology, to those interested in ancient religious practice in the Mediterranean, and to all inspired by Athens’ chief political rival, Sparta. This volume received financial support from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Download or read book Mistress Bradstreet written by Charlotte Gordon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, among others, and through John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. With her first collection, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, she became the first published poet, male or female, of the New World. Many New England towns were founded and settled by Anne Bradstreet's family or their close associates -- characters who appear in these pages.
Download or read book The Heroic Couplet in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries written by George Pope Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heroic Couplet written by William Bowman Piper and published by Cleveland : Case Western Reserve University. This book was released on 1969 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding the Hero in Your Husband written by Julianna Slattery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of Dr. Slattery's indispensable guide to creating a happy marriage. Now updated with questions for individual or group study use, this book offers practical steps to help women enjoy holy matrimony.
Download or read book Orthophony Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution written by James Edward Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding the Hero in Your Husband Revisited written by Juli Slattery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an update of the groundbreaking original title, Dr. Juli Slattery illuminates the power of women in marriage, with an emphasis on the uniqueness of a woman’s capacity to build intimacy. What do you do if your husband won’t get a job? When you don’t like the way he's parenting the kids? How do you know when to stand up to a controlling husband—or if you’ve become a controlling or manipulative wife? Many women feel lost in their marriages. They don't know what to do with their disappointment, when to ask for help, or what it looks like to let go of the need to control. Yet, God has given women incredible power in marriage—but they have to learn how to use it. In a complete rewrite of her bestselling book, Finding the Hero in Your Husband, psychologist Dr. Juli Slattery gently guides women to see how their attempts to manage or fix the messiness of marriage may actually undermine the very connection they want to build. As you read this book, you will: See how disappointment in marriage isn’t the end of intimacy, but an opportunity to build true intimacy that will go the distance. Learn to use your relational power in a way that builds intimacy—instead of sabotaging it. Recognize the ways you unknowingly sabotage intimacy by using your power to take over in marriage. Understand what biblical submission isn’t and be empowered to step into the influence and responsibility you have within marriage. Solidly grounded in biblical truth, Juli covers topics such as work, home life, conflict, and intimacy. As a mentor and friend, she offers explanations of God’s design, healthy expectations, and relatable applications that women of faith can practice to influence their marriage and deepen their relationship with God. Ultimately, Finding the Hero in Your Husband, Revisited, will help a wife more clearly see and encourage the hero within her husband by examining her own heart.
Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Gloria Ferrari and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases, literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks—specifically, their notions of gender. Ferrari begins by developing a theoretical perspective on visual representation, arguing that artistic images give us access to how their subjects were imagined rather than to the way they really were. For instance, Ferrari's examinations of the many representations of women working wool reveal that these images constitute powerful metaphors—metaphors, she argues, which both reflect and construct Greek conceptions of the ideal woman and her ideal behavior. From this perspective, Ferrari studies a number of icons representing blameless femininity and ideal masculinity to reevaluate the rites of passage by which girls are made ready for marriage and boys become men. Representations of the nude male body in Archaic statues known as kouroi, for example, symbolize manhood itself and shed new light on the much-discussed institution of paiderastia. And, in Ferrari's hands, imagery equating maidens with arable land and buried treasure provides a fresh view of Greek ideas of matrimony. Innovative, thought-provoking, and insightful throughout, Figures of Speech is a powerful demonstration of how the study of visual images as well as texts can reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture.
Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or Vocal Culture written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or Vocal Culture a Manual of Elementary Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony written by Francis Thayer Russell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or Vocal Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orthophony Or Vocal Culture written by Francis Thayer Russell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
