Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Selected Epigrams of Martial
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Selected Epigrams of Martial
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Selected Epigrams
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Select Epigrams Books VII-XII
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Martial: Select Epigrams
Author: Martial
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555395
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The epigrams included in the selection are organised under various heads, e.g. Martial and poetry, sexual mores, satirical pieces. A very full introduction deals with such topics as the prejudices and predilections of his audience which conditioned Martial's choice of subject matter, Martial's language, the structure and style of the epigrams, the epigrammatic tradition and Martial's creative engagement with it. The detailed commentary is suitable for use with undergraduates and is distinguished by its focus on social history as well as literary interpretation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555395
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the poet, who has often been criticised, unfairly, the authors argue, for obscenity and flattery of the Emperor Domitian. The epigrams included in the selection are organised under various heads, e.g. Martial and poetry, sexual mores, satirical pieces. A very full introduction deals with such topics as the prejudices and predilections of his audience which conditioned Martial's choice of subject matter, Martial's language, the structure and style of the epigrams, the epigrammatic tradition and Martial's creative engagement with it. The detailed commentary is suitable for use with undergraduates and is distinguished by its focus on social history as well as literary interpretation.
The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743519809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743519809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
Author: John William Mackail
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Writings of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Select epigrams of Martial: Spectaculorum liber and Books I-VI
Author: Martial
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Epigrams from Martial
Author: Martial
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description