Author: Robert Ricks
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359706886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Corey Black was on top of the world, after assuming the identity of a notorious and reclusive crime boss. With resources to spare and the latest military tech at his disposal, he was free to engage in his real passion. hunting and killing anyone he felt like. no one cared about the people of the Lower City, and with the aid of his A.I. partner Scan, he raped and murdered whenever and whomever he wanted and knew it was unlikely he'd be stopped... until he stumbled upon the Necronomicon and all hell broke loose.
Infernal Justice
Author: Robert Ricks
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359706886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Corey Black was on top of the world, after assuming the identity of a notorious and reclusive crime boss. With resources to spare and the latest military tech at his disposal, he was free to engage in his real passion. hunting and killing anyone he felt like. no one cared about the people of the Lower City, and with the aid of his A.I. partner Scan, he raped and murdered whenever and whomever he wanted and knew it was unlikely he'd be stopped... until he stumbled upon the Necronomicon and all hell broke loose.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359706886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Corey Black was on top of the world, after assuming the identity of a notorious and reclusive crime boss. With resources to spare and the latest military tech at his disposal, he was free to engage in his real passion. hunting and killing anyone he felt like. no one cared about the people of the Lower City, and with the aid of his A.I. partner Scan, he raped and murdered whenever and whomever he wanted and knew it was unlikely he'd be stopped... until he stumbled upon the Necronomicon and all hell broke loose.
Infernal Justice Books 4-6 (An Urban Fantasy Series)
Author: N.P. Martin
Publisher: Dark World Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Enjoy three action-packed, fast-paced dark urban fantasy novels in a boxed set omnibus edition featuring angels, demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, shady cults, mythological characters and one bad ass cop you won’t want to mess with. Over 1000 pages of urban fantasy action and suspense you won’t want to put down! Ethan Drake is a cop who tracks down bad guys, both human and supernatural—the monsters nobody else dares to touch. He hunts down the scum of the earth, rescues the lost, and protects the vulnerable. Drake navigates the maze of occult crime, corruption, and cover-up to get to the ugly truth. Then he decides whether to expose it…or expunge it. Helping Drake is his partner, who’s a demon, and frankly, a royal pain in Drake’s ass. But occult investigators are in short supply in the PD, so what are you going to do? Oh, and don’t even get him started on the snarkiest Hellicorn in the known universe…and his six pet Hellbastards. Harry Bosch meets John Constantine in this gripping urban fantasy noir thriller series. ★★★★★ "You've probably have never met a character like Ethan Drake...he's a step beyond The Punisher and as dark as Constantine." ★★★★★ “I loved it! Ethan Drake is one of my new favorite book heroes! It was a very engaging read....dark urban fantasy at its best!” ★★★★★ “Ok, I wasn't expecting much and was shocked. This was fun as heck. Ethan isn't a wimp, he's not dumb, uses common sense and actively crushed the bad guys. Well done.” ★★★★★ “If you enjoy The Boys, you should definitely give this go. It takes anti-heroes to a whole new level.” ★★★★★ “Holy smokes this was good! I've never had a character do that beautiful edge of villain and hero so well.” ★★★★★ “This is a superbly written paranormal urban fantasy” ★★★★★ “This fast-paced series is a page-turner that will capture your imagination and your attention with the first page and won’t let go until the very last sentence.” ★★★★★ “Phenomenal writing, very ‘Constantine’ feel, if you’re into the occult.” ★★★★★ “A new kind of hero…” ★★★★★ “This is urban fantasy at its finest. Another author I’ve added to my must read list. This has everything I could possibly want in an urban fantasy.”
Publisher: Dark World Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Enjoy three action-packed, fast-paced dark urban fantasy novels in a boxed set omnibus edition featuring angels, demons, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, shady cults, mythological characters and one bad ass cop you won’t want to mess with. Over 1000 pages of urban fantasy action and suspense you won’t want to put down! Ethan Drake is a cop who tracks down bad guys, both human and supernatural—the monsters nobody else dares to touch. He hunts down the scum of the earth, rescues the lost, and protects the vulnerable. Drake navigates the maze of occult crime, corruption, and cover-up to get to the ugly truth. Then he decides whether to expose it…or expunge it. Helping Drake is his partner, who’s a demon, and frankly, a royal pain in Drake’s ass. But occult investigators are in short supply in the PD, so what are you going to do? Oh, and don’t even get him started on the snarkiest Hellicorn in the known universe…and his six pet Hellbastards. Harry Bosch meets John Constantine in this gripping urban fantasy noir thriller series. ★★★★★ "You've probably have never met a character like Ethan Drake...he's a step beyond The Punisher and as dark as Constantine." ★★★★★ “I loved it! Ethan Drake is one of my new favorite book heroes! It was a very engaging read....dark urban fantasy at its best!” ★★★★★ “Ok, I wasn't expecting much and was shocked. This was fun as heck. Ethan isn't a wimp, he's not dumb, uses common sense and actively crushed the bad guys. Well done.” ★★★★★ “If you enjoy The Boys, you should definitely give this go. It takes anti-heroes to a whole new level.” ★★★★★ “Holy smokes this was good! I've never had a character do that beautiful edge of villain and hero so well.” ★★★★★ “This is a superbly written paranormal urban fantasy” ★★★★★ “This fast-paced series is a page-turner that will capture your imagination and your attention with the first page and won’t let go until the very last sentence.” ★★★★★ “Phenomenal writing, very ‘Constantine’ feel, if you’re into the occult.” ★★★★★ “A new kind of hero…” ★★★★★ “This is urban fantasy at its finest. Another author I’ve added to my must read list. This has everything I could possibly want in an urban fantasy.”
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice
Author: Anthony K. Cassell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442654538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's investigations, which are based on the belief that Dante used both the theological system of fourfold allegory and the preconfiguration-fulfilment pattern of history found in the Old and New Testaments. The author first deals with the history of contrapassum, 'just retribution,' as it appeared in philosophy and theology, and describes Dante's use of historical and artistic figuration, both classical and Christian. It is central to Cassell's aim to show how Dante believed that his portrayal of the damned revealed the justice of God. Critics have believed that the relation of sin to the suffering of the shades in Hell was tenuous or even arbitrary in many cases. Cassell shows, through a close examination of Dante's assimilation of the Classics (and their medieval interpretations), or patristics, and of traditional iconography, that there is an intimate metaphorical and artistic aptness in the poet's representation. Cassell relies at some points on art history, and thirty-four illustrations of frescoes, statuary, and illuminations from paleo-Christian times to the fourteenth century are therefore included. This volume will be of particular interest to medieval specialists, historians of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, and those concerned with European literature.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442654538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's investigations, which are based on the belief that Dante used both the theological system of fourfold allegory and the preconfiguration-fulfilment pattern of history found in the Old and New Testaments. The author first deals with the history of contrapassum, 'just retribution,' as it appeared in philosophy and theology, and describes Dante's use of historical and artistic figuration, both classical and Christian. It is central to Cassell's aim to show how Dante believed that his portrayal of the damned revealed the justice of God. Critics have believed that the relation of sin to the suffering of the shades in Hell was tenuous or even arbitrary in many cases. Cassell shows, through a close examination of Dante's assimilation of the Classics (and their medieval interpretations), or patristics, and of traditional iconography, that there is an intimate metaphorical and artistic aptness in the poet's representation. Cassell relies at some points on art history, and thirty-four illustrations of frescoes, statuary, and illuminations from paleo-Christian times to the fourteenth century are therefore included. This volume will be of particular interest to medieval specialists, historians of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, and those concerned with European literature.
Dante & the Limits of the Law
Author: Justin Steinberg
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607112X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, crucially introducing Dante to current debates about literature’s relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty. Examining how Dante probes the limits of the law in this juridical otherworld, Steinberg argues that exceptions were vital to the medieval legal order and that Dante’s otherworld represents an ideal “system of exception.” In the real world, Dante saw this system as increasingly threatened by the dual crises of church and empire: the abuses and overreaching of the popes and the absence of an effective Holy Roman Emperor. Steinberg shows that Dante’s imagination of the afterlife seeks to address this gap between the universal validity of Roman law and the lack of a sovereign power to enforce it. Exploring the institutional role of disgrace, the entwined phenomena of judicial discretion and artistic freedom, medieval ideas about privilege and immunity, and the place of judgment in the poem, this cogently argued book brings to life Dante’s sense of justice.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607112X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante’s Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, crucially introducing Dante to current debates about literature’s relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty. Examining how Dante probes the limits of the law in this juridical otherworld, Steinberg argues that exceptions were vital to the medieval legal order and that Dante’s otherworld represents an ideal “system of exception.” In the real world, Dante saw this system as increasingly threatened by the dual crises of church and empire: the abuses and overreaching of the popes and the absence of an effective Holy Roman Emperor. Steinberg shows that Dante’s imagination of the afterlife seeks to address this gap between the universal validity of Roman law and the lack of a sovereign power to enforce it. Exploring the institutional role of disgrace, the entwined phenomena of judicial discretion and artistic freedom, medieval ideas about privilege and immunity, and the place of judgment in the poem, this cogently argued book brings to life Dante’s sense of justice.
The Spanish Tragedy (International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Thomas Kyd
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393614808
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas Kyd’s highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the play’s initial reception. “Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of the play’s major themes. Contributors include Michael Hattaway, Jonas A. Barish, Donna B. Hamilton, G. K. Hunter, Lorna Hutson, Molly Smith, J. R. Mulryne, T. McAlindon, and Andrew Sofer. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393614808
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Thomas Kyd’s highly influential and popular revenge play is now available in a richly documented and critically engaging Norton Critical Edition. The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements—a play-within-a-play and a ghost bent on revenge—are widely believed to have influenced Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among them Kyd’s likely sources (Virgil, Jacques Yver, and the anonymous “The Earl of Leicester Betrays His Own Servant”), Thomas Nashe’s satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and “The Ballad of The Spanish Tragedy,” which suggests the play’s initial reception. “Criticism” is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of the play’s major themes. Contributors include Michael Hattaway, Jonas A. Barish, Donna B. Hamilton, G. K. Hunter, Lorna Hutson, Molly Smith, J. R. Mulryne, T. McAlindon, and Andrew Sofer. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Dark Fairy Tales
Author: Grimm Brothers
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528799100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales. ‘Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.’ – Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916 ‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths.’ – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623 This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world’s most wicked fairy tales, including the original versions of stories you thought you knew, such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, and ‘Snow White’. Relish in the morbid darkness of these early classics, alongside many other tales you haven't heard before. From renowned storytellers of the fairy tale genre, this collection sources works from the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and many more. Dark Fairy Tales is woven with themes of lost innocence, beastly bonds, and haunted hearts, aiming to inspire, caution, and illuminate valuable aspects of the human experience. Be warned, for these stories are not for the faint of heart and happy endings cannot be guaranteed.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528799100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales. ‘Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.’ – Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916 ‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths.’ – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623 This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world’s most wicked fairy tales, including the original versions of stories you thought you knew, such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, and ‘Snow White’. Relish in the morbid darkness of these early classics, alongside many other tales you haven't heard before. From renowned storytellers of the fairy tale genre, this collection sources works from the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and many more. Dark Fairy Tales is woven with themes of lost innocence, beastly bonds, and haunted hearts, aiming to inspire, caution, and illuminate valuable aspects of the human experience. Be warned, for these stories are not for the faint of heart and happy endings cannot be guaranteed.
Artaud Anthology
Author: Antonin Artaud
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872860001
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN: 9780872860001
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.
Issues of Death
Author: Michael Neill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192517902
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part I explore Death as a trope of apocalypse — a moment of un-veiling or dis-covery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful openings enacted in the new theatres of anatomy. Separate chapters explore the apocalyptic design of two of the periods most powerful tragedies — Shakespeare's Othello, and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling. In Part 2, Neill explores the psychological and affective consequences of tragedy's fiercely end-driven narrative in a number of plays where a longing for narrative closure is pitched against a particularly intense dread of ending. The imposition of an end is often figured as an act of writerly violence, committed by the author or his dramatic surrogate. Extensive attention is paid to Hamlet as an extreme example of the structural consequences of such anxiety. The function of revenge tragedy as a response to the radical displacement of the dead by the Protestant abolition of purgatory — one of the most painful aspects of the early modern re-imagining of death — is also illustrated with particular clarity. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the way tragedy articulates its challenge to the undifferentiating power of death through conventions and motifs borrowed from the funereal arts. It offers detailed analyses of three plays — Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Ford's The Broken Heart. Here, funeral is rewritten as triumph, and death becomes the chosen instrument of an heroic self-fashioning designed to dress the arbitrary abruption of mortal ending in a powerful aesthetic of closure.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192517902
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part I explore Death as a trope of apocalypse — a moment of un-veiling or dis-covery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful openings enacted in the new theatres of anatomy. Separate chapters explore the apocalyptic design of two of the periods most powerful tragedies — Shakespeare's Othello, and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling. In Part 2, Neill explores the psychological and affective consequences of tragedy's fiercely end-driven narrative in a number of plays where a longing for narrative closure is pitched against a particularly intense dread of ending. The imposition of an end is often figured as an act of writerly violence, committed by the author or his dramatic surrogate. Extensive attention is paid to Hamlet as an extreme example of the structural consequences of such anxiety. The function of revenge tragedy as a response to the radical displacement of the dead by the Protestant abolition of purgatory — one of the most painful aspects of the early modern re-imagining of death — is also illustrated with particular clarity. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the way tragedy articulates its challenge to the undifferentiating power of death through conventions and motifs borrowed from the funereal arts. It offers detailed analyses of three plays — Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Ford's The Broken Heart. Here, funeral is rewritten as triumph, and death becomes the chosen instrument of an heroic self-fashioning designed to dress the arbitrary abruption of mortal ending in a powerful aesthetic of closure.
Antonin Artaud
Author: David A. Shafer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmate—Antonin Artaud (1896–1949) is one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers. In this biography, David A. Shafer takes readers on a voyage through Artaud’s life, which he spent amid the company of France’s most influential cultural figures, even as he stood apart from them. Shafer casts Artaud as a person with tenacious values. Even though Artaud was born in the material comfort of a bourgeois family from Marseille, he uncompromisingly rejected bourgeois values and norms. Becoming famous as an actor, director, and author, he would use his position to challenge contemporary assumptions about the superiority of the West, the function of speech, the purpose of culture, and the individual’s agency over his or her body. In this way—as Shafer points out—Artaud embodied the revolutionary spirit of France. And as Shafer shows, although Artaud was immensely productive, he struggled profoundly with his creative process, hindered by narcotics addiction, increasing paranoia, and an overwhelming sense of alienation. Situating Artaud’s contributions within the frenzy of his life and that of the twentieth century at large, this book is a compelling and fresh biography that pays tribute to its subject’s lasting cultural reverberations.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmate—Antonin Artaud (1896–1949) is one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers. In this biography, David A. Shafer takes readers on a voyage through Artaud’s life, which he spent amid the company of France’s most influential cultural figures, even as he stood apart from them. Shafer casts Artaud as a person with tenacious values. Even though Artaud was born in the material comfort of a bourgeois family from Marseille, he uncompromisingly rejected bourgeois values and norms. Becoming famous as an actor, director, and author, he would use his position to challenge contemporary assumptions about the superiority of the West, the function of speech, the purpose of culture, and the individual’s agency over his or her body. In this way—as Shafer points out—Artaud embodied the revolutionary spirit of France. And as Shafer shows, although Artaud was immensely productive, he struggled profoundly with his creative process, hindered by narcotics addiction, increasing paranoia, and an overwhelming sense of alienation. Situating Artaud’s contributions within the frenzy of his life and that of the twentieth century at large, this book is a compelling and fresh biography that pays tribute to its subject’s lasting cultural reverberations.
After Life in Roman Paganism
Author: Franz Cumont
Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press 1922.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press 1922.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description