Download or read book Life in Cythera written by Charles Coddington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cythera, the city that obeys Murphys Law faithfully (if something can go wrong, it will) is revisited in two tales, outlining one mishap after another. In the first tale, a day in the life of a taxi driver is examined. Fred, the driver, encounters more than his fair share of oddball characters and zany predicaments. And a visitor is on hand to take note of a city that never ceases to confound the rational mind. In the second tale, a mayoral election is being held, and the fate of Cythera rests upon which of the candidates succeeds in amassing the most votes. The trouble is, Why would anyone want to be the mayor of the city that never ceases to confound the rational mind?
Download or read book Life in Cythera written by Charles Coddington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Cythera, the jewel (more or less) of Mid-America, where anything can-and often does-go wrong! And, when it does go wrong, run for cover! America is at war (again) with one of its smaller neighbors, and the pros and cons are clearly delineated. Nowhere is this truer than in Cythera. Specifically, the student body of Cythera College is roused to protest America's foreign policy and is intent on speaking forcefully about it-hence, the anti-war rally. But, because anything in Cythera can-and often does-go wrong, the rally has no immunity from the city's curse. The road to Hell being paved with good intentions, the rally provides many paving stones, and the student body might have been better off (more or less) staying in bed. Be prepared to run for cover!
Download or read book Sailing to Cythera and Other Anatole Stories written by Nancy Willard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1974 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories relating the magical adventures of a boy and his cat.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.
Download or read book The Films of Theo Angelopoulos written by Andrew Horton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on Angelopoulos's unique cinematic vision, Andrew Horton provides an illuminating contextual study that attempts to demonstrate the quintessentially Greek nature of the director's work. Horton situates the director in the context of over 3,000 years of Greek culture and history. Somewhat like Andrei Tarkovsky in Russia or Antonioni in Italy, Angelopoulos has used cinema to explore the history and individual identities of his culture. With such far-reaching influences as Greek myth, ancient tragedy and epic, Byzantine iconography and ceremony, Greek and Balkan history, modern Greek pop culture including bouzouki music, shadow puppet theater, and the Greek music hall tradition, Angelopoulos emerges as an original "thinker" with the camera, and a distinctive director who is bound to make a lasting contribution to the art form. In a series of films including The Travelling Players, Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, The Suspended Step of the Stork, and most recently in Ulysses' Gaze starring Harvey Keitel (winner of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix), Angelopoulos has developed a remarkable cinematic style, characterized by carefully composed scenes and an enormous number of extended long shots. In an age of ever decreasing attention spans, Angelopoulos offers a cinema of contemplation.
Download or read book Lives of the Eminent Philosophers written by Diogenes Laertius and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other ancient source.
Download or read book Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth Century Britain and France written by Michael Charlesworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to modernity during the period in question.
Download or read book Lyra Graeca written by John Maxwell Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War Translated from the Greek of Thucydides To which are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses I On the Life of Thucydides II On His Qualifications as an Historian III A Survey of the History By W Smith A New Edition to which is Prefixed the Life and Character of the Translator written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Derek Walcott written by John Thieme and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Thieme here provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginnings in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts--Caribbean, European and other--that have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time.
Download or read book The History of the Peloponnesian War written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Greece written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Insistence of History written by Geraldine Friedman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. The book begins with the discovery that, in these writers, issues of narration and figuration are already taken up in the political and historical questions raised by the two revolutions; conversely, historical-political positioning and representation are involved from the beginning in problems of narration and figuration. This co-implication of aesthetics and history in each other has profound consequences: once historical events take the form of figures, they no longer act as literal, material referents but rather interrogate the status of reference itself. Far from being denied, history becomes a problem for analysis, one whose normative frames of understanding and founding concepts, such as event, experience, and chronology, must be rethought. This can be most easily seen in the fact that the four writers, in their different ways, all miss historical occurrencenot when they try to flee it, as many older accounts of Romanticism have claimed, but just when they attempt to engage it most intensely.
Download or read book The Novel An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
Download or read book Greek History for Schools written by C. D. Edmonds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1914, Edmonds' book is a succinct introduction to the history, art, literature and geography of ancient Greece from the prehistoric Aegean civilizations to the sack of Corinth by the Romans in 146 BC. Edmonds includes questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate discussion, and the text is augmented by fourteen maps, thirty-seven photographs and five illustrations. This book is still useful as a general introduction to ancient Greece, and will be of additional value to those with an interest in the history of Classical education in England.
Download or read book The History of Philosophy written by Thomas Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
