Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410346218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Get Book Here
Book Description
A Study Guide for Peter Viereck's "For an Assyrian Frieze," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Christina G. Williamson
Publisher: Religions in the Graeco-Roman
ISBN: 9789004461260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Get Book Here
Book Description
"In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local histories, landscapes, material culture, and social and political dynamics of such shrines in their transition towards becoming prestigious civic sanctuaries. This frame of analysis is applied to four case studies: the sanctuaries of Zeus Labraundos, Sinuri, Hekate at Lagina, and Zeus Panamaros. All in Karia, these well-documented shrines offer valuable insights for understanding religious strategies adopted by emerging cities as they sought to establish their position in the expanding world"--
Author: Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521206679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Get Book Here
Book Description
This is a 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. The first part of the book discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of manpower, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and discipline. The second part reconstructs the great campaigns in order to examine the Seleucid tactics. The book provides a lesson in Hellenistic and military history and discusses several questions: how did the Hellenistic armies develop after Alexander? What distinguished the Seleucid army as superior to its Hellenistic contemporaries? The answers illuminate the expansion of Hellenism as we learn how the Seleucid army was used as a military, social and cultural instrument to impose the rule of the dynasty over the vast regions of the Empire and how it helped to shape Hellenistic society in the East.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780787616885
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Sara Constantakis
Publisher: Poetry for Students
ISBN: 9781414467030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book Here
Book Description
Each volume of Poetry For Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 14-16 works from various cultures and time periods. Each poem covered in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this references content. You may also be interested in For Students Online - The Complete For Students Collection in eBook format. Call your Sales Rep for details.
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Get Book Here
Book Description
"Poems discuss a journey across the ocean, a veterans' cemetery, money, an abandoned collection of dolls, and a man who escapes from his prison cell to commit a murder"--Amazon.com.
Author: Peter Viereck
Publisher: New York : Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Get Book Here
Book Description
At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.
Author: Peter Viereck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Peter Viereck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351491024
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Get Book Here
Book Description
In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism. In so doing, he seeks to formulate a humanistic conservatism with which to counter the danger of totalitarian thought in the areas of politics, ethics, and art.The glory of the intellectuals was the firm moral stance they took against Nazism at a time when appeasement was the preferred path of many politicians; their shame lay in their failure to recognize the brutality of Stalinism to the extent of becoming apologists for or accomplices of its tyranny. In Viereck's view, this failure is rooted in an abandonment of humane values that he sees as a legacy of nineteenth-century romanticism and certain strands of modernist thought and aesthetics.Among his targets are literary obscurantism as personified by Ezra Pound, the academicization of literary culture, the rigidity of adversarial avant-gardism, and the failure of many writers and cultural institutions to conserve the very heritage their political freedom and security depend on. Viereck represents their attitude in a series of satirical dialogues with Gaylord Babbitt, son of Sinclair Lewis' embodiment of conservative philistinism. Babbitt Junior is as unreflective as his father, but the objects of his credulity are the received ideas of liberal progressivism and avant-garde mandarinism. Ultimately, Viereck's critique stands as a timely rebuke to the extremism of both left and right.
