Author: University of California (System)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Natural Ordermage
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765318138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The first of two brand-new volumes in the Recluce saga, set mostly on the continent of Hamor, begins when Rahl, a young apprentice scrivener, is exiled in Hamor. As his magic powers increase, so does the amount of trouble he creates.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765318138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The first of two brand-new volumes in the Recluce saga, set mostly on the continent of Hamor, begins when Rahl, a young apprentice scrivener, is exiled in Hamor. As his magic powers increase, so does the amount of trouble he creates.
Legacy
Author: Helen Hardt
Publisher: Waterhouse Press
ISBN: 1642632236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
He’ll keep his commitments no matter what. Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She’s his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn’t waver when he learns a secret about his bride—a secret she herself doesn’t know. For the first time in a while, everything seems to be in sync for Daphne. She has loving parents, good friends, a man who adores her, a beautiful child growing inside her, and freedom from her anxiety and depression. But is it an illusion? When Brad is thrown into his family business sooner than he anticipates, he must divide his time among growing his legacy, keeping secrets, and solving unforeseen crimes. He’ll do anything to ensure Daphne’s safety and sanity. Anything…no matter the cost.
Publisher: Waterhouse Press
ISBN: 1642632236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
He’ll keep his commitments no matter what. Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She’s his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn’t waver when he learns a secret about his bride—a secret she herself doesn’t know. For the first time in a while, everything seems to be in sync for Daphne. She has loving parents, good friends, a man who adores her, a beautiful child growing inside her, and freedom from her anxiety and depression. But is it an illusion? When Brad is thrown into his family business sooner than he anticipates, he must divide his time among growing his legacy, keeping secrets, and solving unforeseen crimes. He’ll do anything to ensure Daphne’s safety and sanity. Anything…no matter the cost.
The Holland Family Saga Part One
Author: Clever Black
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985350901
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985350901
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Richard Jackson Saga
Author: Ed Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953395108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An alternate history about coming of age in the 1950s. It is a humorous look at the culture of the day, No teenage angst just plain fun as Richard Jackson finds his way to fame and fortune. If only finding a girlfriend was that easy. It is all true, give or take a lie or two.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953395108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An alternate history about coming of age in the 1950s. It is a humorous look at the culture of the day, No teenage angst just plain fun as Richard Jackson finds his way to fame and fortune. If only finding a girlfriend was that easy. It is all true, give or take a lie or two.
Vinland Saga 13
Author: Makoto Yukimura
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1646513010
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues. A DREAM COMES ASHORE Thorfinn's travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in his friends, in his new wife, and in the dream that he's never let go, of a new land free of brutality and slavery. At last, the moment has come to set foot on Vinland--not the misty ideal he has carried there, but the real thing--and to meet the people who have made it their home for generations before Thorfinn's quest began...
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1646513010
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the greatest European historical epic comics ever written continues. A DREAM COMES ASHORE Thorfinn's travels have taken him from Iceland to England, Denmark, the distant trading posts of the Byzantine Empire, and back home again. On the journey, he has amassed scars, losses, and sins to atone for, but also found strength in his friends, in his new wife, and in the dream that he's never let go, of a new land free of brutality and slavery. At last, the moment has come to set foot on Vinland--not the misty ideal he has carried there, but the real thing--and to meet the people who have made it their home for generations before Thorfinn's quest began...
Saga
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Saga DLX Ed Hc
ISBN: 9781632150783
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A child born to parents from opposite sides of a never-ending space war, Hazel is taken on the run by her fugitive family as they risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe.
Publisher: Saga DLX Ed Hc
ISBN: 9781632150783
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A child born to parents from opposite sides of a never-ending space war, Hazel is taken on the run by her fugitive family as they risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe.
Syllabus Series
Author: University of California (System)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Iceland
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative
Author: Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153305X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which are ostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative. Dialogue verses, with their illusion that saga characters break into verse at crucial points in the story, belong to the realm of fiction. This study, which focuses on historical writings such as Ágrip and Heimskringla, and three of the major family sagas, Eyrbyggja saga, Gisla saga and Grettis saga, shows that a close reading of the prosimetrum in the narrative can be used to chart the complex and delicate boundaries between history and fiction in the sagas. When skaldic stanzas are presented as the dialogue of saga characters, the characteristic naturalism of these narratives is breached. But some saga authors, as this book shows, extend still further the expressiveness of saga narrative, presenting skaldic stanzas as the soliloquies of saga characters. This technique enables the direct articulation of emotion, and hence dramatic focalization of the narrative and the creation of psychological climaxes. As an epilogue, Heather O'Donoghue considers the absence of such effects in Hrafnkels saga-a highly literary narrative without verses.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153305X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which are ostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative. Dialogue verses, with their illusion that saga characters break into verse at crucial points in the story, belong to the realm of fiction. This study, which focuses on historical writings such as Ágrip and Heimskringla, and three of the major family sagas, Eyrbyggja saga, Gisla saga and Grettis saga, shows that a close reading of the prosimetrum in the narrative can be used to chart the complex and delicate boundaries between history and fiction in the sagas. When skaldic stanzas are presented as the dialogue of saga characters, the characteristic naturalism of these narratives is breached. But some saga authors, as this book shows, extend still further the expressiveness of saga narrative, presenting skaldic stanzas as the soliloquies of saga characters. This technique enables the direct articulation of emotion, and hence dramatic focalization of the narrative and the creation of psychological climaxes. As an epilogue, Heather O'Donoghue considers the absence of such effects in Hrafnkels saga-a highly literary narrative without verses.
Feud in the Icelandic Saga
Author: Jesse L. Byock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983. Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the fami
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520341015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the family sagas and the Sturlunga saga compilation. This comprehensive study of narrative structure demonstrates that the sagas are complex expressions of medieval social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983. Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the narrative of the fami