Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027910035
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Slavic Epic Studies".
Slavic Epic Studies
Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027910035
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Slavic Epic Studies".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027910035
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Slavic Epic Studies".
Rock on: The solid gold years
Author: Norm N. Nite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624)
Author: Dunstan Gale
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance by Dunstan Gale is a collection of Elizabethan minor epics, both new and reprinted. Gale discusses Greek history and the Renaissance to preface these rich poems by such orators and poets as Ovid and Marlowe. Contents: "A Pleasant and Delightful Poeme of Two Lovers, Philos and Licia. Pyramus and Thisbe. By Dunstan Gale. The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra. By Richard Lynche. Mirrha the Mother of Adonis: or, Lustes Prodegies..."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance by Dunstan Gale is a collection of Elizabethan minor epics, both new and reprinted. Gale discusses Greek history and the Renaissance to preface these rich poems by such orators and poets as Ovid and Marlowe. Contents: "A Pleasant and Delightful Poeme of Two Lovers, Philos and Licia. Pyramus and Thisbe. By Dunstan Gale. The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra. By Richard Lynche. Mirrha the Mother of Adonis: or, Lustes Prodegies..."
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters
Author: Sheldon Hall
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. It discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, it examines the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. (Editor).
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814330081
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, romances, comic-book adaptations, animated features, and historical epics. It discuss the characteristics, history, and modes of distribution and exhibition that unite big-budget pictures, from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. Moving chronologically, it examines the roots of today's blockbuster in the "feature," "special," "superspecial," "roadshow," "epic," and "spectacle" of earlier eras, with special attention to the characteristics of each type of picture. (Editor).
A Baroque Vision
Author: Nicholas Hagger
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178904586X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poetic identity, and Ricks agreed with his final view that his verse blends the Romantic and Classical traditions within the Baroque tradition. In 1979 and again in 1982 Ricks asked him to select 30 poems. Forty years later A Baroque Vision presents a selection that shows his Baroque roots. Part One presents 30 poems written before 1979, and Part Two adds 70 verse selections written between 1979 and 2019. A Baroque Vision presents 100 verse selections drawn from 50 volumes of his poems, verse plays and masques. The Baroque style, which can be found in all European countries, combines the spiritual and the sensual, and features movement, transformation, the Mystic Way, the mysterious Light, the transcending of death, the divine soul and Heaven, as illustrated in Rubens' The Apotheosis of James I (shown on the front cover); and blends the Romantic and Classical traditions. In his Preface Hagger shows very clearly that his Baroque vision was behind, and grew into, his Universalism, his philosophy and worldview of the unity of the universe whose development can be traced in his Selected Letters and Collected Prefaces, and in the companion volume to this work The Essentials of Universalism (all published by O-Books). These 100 verse selections confirm that his Baroque vision is inspired by the 17th century (by the Metaphysical poets, Milton and Dryden), but also by the 18th and 19th centuries (by Pope, Wordsworth and Tennyson).
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 178904586X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poetic identity, and Ricks agreed with his final view that his verse blends the Romantic and Classical traditions within the Baroque tradition. In 1979 and again in 1982 Ricks asked him to select 30 poems. Forty years later A Baroque Vision presents a selection that shows his Baroque roots. Part One presents 30 poems written before 1979, and Part Two adds 70 verse selections written between 1979 and 2019. A Baroque Vision presents 100 verse selections drawn from 50 volumes of his poems, verse plays and masques. The Baroque style, which can be found in all European countries, combines the spiritual and the sensual, and features movement, transformation, the Mystic Way, the mysterious Light, the transcending of death, the divine soul and Heaven, as illustrated in Rubens' The Apotheosis of James I (shown on the front cover); and blends the Romantic and Classical traditions. In his Preface Hagger shows very clearly that his Baroque vision was behind, and grew into, his Universalism, his philosophy and worldview of the unity of the universe whose development can be traced in his Selected Letters and Collected Prefaces, and in the companion volume to this work The Essentials of Universalism (all published by O-Books). These 100 verse selections confirm that his Baroque vision is inspired by the 17th century (by the Metaphysical poets, Milton and Dryden), but also by the 18th and 19th centuries (by Pope, Wordsworth and Tennyson).
Counterfeit Culture
Author: Rob Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts.
Arrows
Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859391
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"look/bird's eye poem see-all high!" says the poem "Night Before Morning," which begins with a recitation of odd, quirky musical instruments - "trump, bandora, kithara" - that illustrates Meltzer's ties to Beat poetry, the San Francisco Renaissance, and, especially, jazz. Along with his songwriter wife, Tina, and poet Clark Coolidge, Meltzer does performance pieces that incorporate music, poetry, and song. He also works as an essayist, anthologist, jazz reviewer, college teacher, and erotic novelist. No one would dare call these poems polished, but they have a high-energy, Ginsberg-like quality; deft, idiosyncratic humor (e.g., "a lice-fevered bear"), and moments of pure encapsulated description that take the breath away: "a brace of crow/discuss attack in the white exploding cherry tree." Many poems reflect an Eastern influence, with some short ones showing their cousinhood to haiku: "last night's seed/a trail of light down your thighs." --Library Journal
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780876859391
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"look/bird's eye poem see-all high!" says the poem "Night Before Morning," which begins with a recitation of odd, quirky musical instruments - "trump, bandora, kithara" - that illustrates Meltzer's ties to Beat poetry, the San Francisco Renaissance, and, especially, jazz. Along with his songwriter wife, Tina, and poet Clark Coolidge, Meltzer does performance pieces that incorporate music, poetry, and song. He also works as an essayist, anthologist, jazz reviewer, college teacher, and erotic novelist. No one would dare call these poems polished, but they have a high-energy, Ginsberg-like quality; deft, idiosyncratic humor (e.g., "a lice-fevered bear"), and moments of pure encapsulated description that take the breath away: "a brace of crow/discuss attack in the white exploding cherry tree." Many poems reflect an Eastern influence, with some short ones showing their cousinhood to haiku: "last night's seed/a trail of light down your thighs." --Library Journal
Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition
Author: Alisdair G. G. Gibson
Publisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 0198738056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.
Publisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 0198738056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.
Selected Writings: Slavic epic studies
Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
Author: Jia Lynn Yang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A "powerful and cogent" (Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post) account of the twentieth-century battle for immigration reform that set the stage for today’s roiling debates. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before—and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A "powerful and cogent" (Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post) account of the twentieth-century battle for immigration reform that set the stage for today’s roiling debates. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before—and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.