La Horda

La Horda PDF Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
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Languages : en
Pages : 304

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La Horda

La Horda

La Horda PDF Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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La Horda

The Dead Command

The Dead Command PDF Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ibiza (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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The Shadow of the Cathedral

The Shadow of the Cathedral PDF Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465534628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Epic and Empire

Epic and Empire PDF Author: David Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.

Prince of Europe

Prince of Europe PDF Author: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.

Against the Madness of Manu

Against the Madness of Manu PDF Author: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788189059538
Category : Caste
Languages : mr
Pages : 266

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Dictionnaire Napoleon

Dictionnaire Napoleon PDF Author: Jean F. Tulard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780828824910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A History of Turin

A History of Turin PDF Author: Anthony L. Cardoza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788806181246
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 281

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The Mayflower

The Mayflower PDF Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752376015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Reproduction of the original: The Mayflower by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Main Currents of Spanish Literature

Main Currents of Spanish Literature PDF Author: Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford
Publisher:
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Category : Spanish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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