Download or read book Poets Never Die written by Stavros Sideras and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Legends Never Die written by Richard Ian Kimball and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their place. The premature deaths of celebrated players not only capture and immortalize their physical superiority, but also jolt their fans with an unanticipated intensity. These athletes escape the inevitability of aging and decline of skill, with only the prime of their youth left to be remembered. But early mortality alone does not transform athletes into immortals. The living ultimately gain the power to construct the legacies of their fallen heroes. In Legends Never Die, Kimball explores the public myths and representations that surround a wide range of athletes, from Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio to Dale Earnhardt and Bonnie McCarroll. Kimball delves deeper than just the cultural significance of sports and its players; he examines how each athlete’s narrative is shaped by gender relations, religion, and politics in contemporary America. In looking at how Americans react to the tragic deaths of sports heroes, Kimball illuminates the important role sports play in US society and helps to explain why star athletes possess such cultural power.
Download or read book Paul Laurence Dunbar written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet laureate of his race” hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a “caged bird” that sings. Jarrett tells the fascinating story of how Dunbar, born during Reconstruction to formerly enslaved parents, excelled against all odds to become an accomplished and versatile artist. A prolific and successful poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and Broadway librettist, he was also a friend of such luminaries as Frederick Douglass and Orville and Wilbur Wright. But while audiences across the United States and Europe flocked to enjoy his literary readings, Dunbar privately bemoaned shouldering the burden of race and catering to minstrel stereotypes to earn fame and money. Inspired by his parents’ survival of slavery, but also agitated by a turbulent public marriage, beholden to influential benefactors, and helpless against his widely reported bouts of tuberculosis and alcoholism, he came to regard his racial notoriety as a curse as well as a blessing before dying at the age of only thirty-three. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated, this biography presents the richest, most detailed, and most nuanced portrait yet of Dunbar and his work, transforming how we understand the astonishing life and times of a central figure in American literary history.
Download or read book Nero and Other Plays written by Herbert P. Horne and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are "Nero," "The Two Angry Women of Abington," "The Parliament of Bees," "Humour Out of Breath," "Woman Is a Weathercock," and "Amends for Ladies."
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Download or read book Cat in the Agraharam and Other Stories written by Dilip Kumar and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories from celebrated author Dilip Kumar offers a distinct perspective on everyday life in the South Indian cities of Coimbatore and Chennai. The stories set in the Sowcarpet neighborhood of Chennai give readers a glimpse into the orthodox world of Gujarati Vaishnavas, transplants from the northwestern region of Kutch, who find themselves living usually at odds—and occasionally in harmony—with the Tamil-speaking community. The volume is introduced by its award-winning translator, Martha Ann Selby, who worked closely with the author. The universal appeal of these stories is rooted in their utterly truthful local specificity as they explore complex themes of abduction and restoration, humiliation and despair, and related issues of identity and wholeness. Known by Tamil readers for his description and detail, Dilip Kumar also writes with humor and a deep compassion for his characters, highlighting their strengths in the face of degradation and strife. His perspective and insight build on his own status as a northerner in this southern setting for whom Tamil is a second language—much like his characters.
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Download or read book Schubert s Poets and the Making of Lieder written by Susan Youens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the life and work of four poets and Schubert's settings of their verse.
Download or read book Minor Poets of the Caroline Period General introduction William Chamberlayne Pharonnida England s jubilee Edward Benlowes Theophila The summary of wisdom A poetic descant upon a private music meeting Katherine Philips Poems Patrick Hannay Philomela Sheretine and Mariana A happy husband Elegies on the death of our late sovereign Queen Anne with epitaphs Songs and sonnets written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
