Author: Howard Rodman
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780689120909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Fictionalized account of the life of Fritz Lang, the German motion picture director
Destiny Express
Author: Howard Rodman
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780689120909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Fictionalized account of the life of Fritz Lang, the German motion picture director
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780689120909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Fictionalized account of the life of Fritz Lang, the German motion picture director
ICC Register
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Pages : 732
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U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Register
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The Cultural World in Beowulf
Author: John M. Hill
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world—a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, John Hill looks at Beowulf from a comparative ethnological point of view. He provides a thorough examination of the socio-cultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of Beowulf to that of similarly organized cultures. Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France, as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia, a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different Beowulf is illuminated. The study is divided into five major essays: on ethnology and social drama, the temporal world, the legal world, the economy of honour, and the psychological world. Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements: in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions, both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy, acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force, and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one. Family and kinship relations, revenge themes, heroic poetry, myth, legality, and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in Beowulf to the foreground, allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for Anglo-Saxon society.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world—a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, John Hill looks at Beowulf from a comparative ethnological point of view. He provides a thorough examination of the socio-cultural dimensions of the text and compares the social milieu of Beowulf to that of similarly organized cultures. Through examination of historical analogs in northern Europe and France, as well as past and present societies on the Pacific rim in Southeast Asia, a complex and extended society is uncovered and an astonishingly different Beowulf is illuminated. The study is divided into five major essays: on ethnology and social drama, the temporal world, the legal world, the economy of honour, and the psychological world. Hill presents a realm where genealogies incorporate social and political statements: in this world gift giving has subtle and manipulative dimensions, both violent and peaceful exchange form a political economy, acts of revenge can be baleful or have jural force, and kinship is as much a constructible fact as a natural one. Family and kinship relations, revenge themes, heroic poetry, myth, legality, and political discussions all bring the importance of the social institutions in Beowulf to the foreground, allowing for a fuller understanding of the poems and its implications for Anglo-Saxon society.
A Commentary on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo
Author: Thomas Steinbuch
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819196088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In this commentary on chapter one, "Why I am So Wise," of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, the author dispels the long-standing impression that Ecce Homo is an irrational book in which the madness that claimed Nietzsche only months after he began writing it had already begun its work. Ecce Homo, it is alleged, is not egotistical, or narcissistic, or megalomaniacal. It is not a work of madness. In his linear exposition of this first chapter, the author presents Nietzsche's revelation of the tragic fact that his very aliveness was in a state of being overwhelmed, consumed, by powerful unconscious emotion, the condition he called decadence. Nietzsche's madness may have caused him to lose perspective on the meaning of having dwelt in "a world of exalted and delicate things," as he writes of himself in Ecce, but the original experience of elevation that comes of an abundance of life, of a surplus of life, certainly was not pathological.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819196088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In this commentary on chapter one, "Why I am So Wise," of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, the author dispels the long-standing impression that Ecce Homo is an irrational book in which the madness that claimed Nietzsche only months after he began writing it had already begun its work. Ecce Homo, it is alleged, is not egotistical, or narcissistic, or megalomaniacal. It is not a work of madness. In his linear exposition of this first chapter, the author presents Nietzsche's revelation of the tragic fact that his very aliveness was in a state of being overwhelmed, consumed, by powerful unconscious emotion, the condition he called decadence. Nietzsche's madness may have caused him to lose perspective on the meaning of having dwelt in "a world of exalted and delicate things," as he writes of himself in Ecce, but the original experience of elevation that comes of an abundance of life, of a surplus of life, certainly was not pathological.
Select speeches, condensed and abridged, with Kossuth's express sanction, by F. W. Newman
Author: Lajos Kossuth
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Pages : 404
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The Express Messenger
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Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Express service
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Numerology
Author: Kay Lagerquist
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592572151
Category : Numerology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592572151
Category : Numerology
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Fritz Lang
Author: Patrick McGilligan
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452940649
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452940649
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.
Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carriers Register
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Category : Transportation, Automotive
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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