Author: Paul Byron Norris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Ulysses in the Raj
Author: Paul Byron Norris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greeks
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Return of Ulysses
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one of the most popular texts of all time, crossing East-West divides and inspiring poets and film-makers worldwide. But why, over three thousand years, has the Odyssey's appeal proved so remarkably resilient and long-lasting? In her much-praised book Edith Hall explains the enduring fascination of Homer's epic in terms of its extraordinary susceptibility to adaptation. Not only has the story reflected a myriad of different agendas, but - from the tragedies of classical Athens to modern detective fiction, film, travelogue and opera - it has seemed perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic forms. Cultural texts as diverse as Joyce's Ulysses, Suzanne Vega's Calypso, Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?, Daniel Vigne's Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain all show that Odysseus is truly a versatile hero. His travels across the wine-dark Aegean are journeys not just into the mind of one of the most brilliantly creative of all the ancient Greek writers. They are as much a voyage beyond the boundaries of a narrative which can plausibly lay claim to being the quintessential global phenomenon.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one of the most popular texts of all time, crossing East-West divides and inspiring poets and film-makers worldwide. But why, over three thousand years, has the Odyssey's appeal proved so remarkably resilient and long-lasting? In her much-praised book Edith Hall explains the enduring fascination of Homer's epic in terms of its extraordinary susceptibility to adaptation. Not only has the story reflected a myriad of different agendas, but - from the tragedies of classical Athens to modern detective fiction, film, travelogue and opera - it has seemed perhaps uniquely fertile in generating new artistic forms. Cultural texts as diverse as Joyce's Ulysses, Suzanne Vega's Calypso, Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, the Coen Brothers' O Brother Where Art Thou?, Daniel Vigne's Le Retour de Martin Guerre and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain all show that Odysseus is truly a versatile hero. His travels across the wine-dark Aegean are journeys not just into the mind of one of the most brilliantly creative of all the ancient Greek writers. They are as much a voyage beyond the boundaries of a narrative which can plausibly lay claim to being the quintessential global phenomenon.
Modernist Commitments
Author: Jessica Berman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231149514
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Modernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities—ideas about what we ought to be and do—to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231149514
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Modernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities—ideas about what we ought to be and do—to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation.
Our Star's Last Song
Author: Jeremy J. E. Gordon
Publisher: Jeremy J. E. Gordon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Humanity desperately flees Earth to search for a new home among the stars. Two centuries and forty trillion kilometers later, the last three-hundred humans arrive in the Alpha Centauri system aboard the Exodus. With what little they could bring before fleeing the cradle of mankind, the survivors prepare to explore and colonize the planet below, eager to rebuild civilization. But they are not the first to arrive.
Publisher: Jeremy J. E. Gordon
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Humanity desperately flees Earth to search for a new home among the stars. Two centuries and forty trillion kilometers later, the last three-hundred humans arrive in the Alpha Centauri system aboard the Exodus. With what little they could bring before fleeing the cradle of mankind, the survivors prepare to explore and colonize the planet below, eager to rebuild civilization. But they are not the first to arrive.
ENGLISH
Author: YCT EXPERT TEAM
Publisher: YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
TGT/PGT ENGLISH SOLVED PAPERS AND PRACTICE BOOK
Publisher: YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
TGT/PGT ENGLISH SOLVED PAPERS AND PRACTICE BOOK
Tradition & Modernity in Arabic Literature (c)
Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754330
Category : Arabic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754330
Category : Arabic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology
Author: Blasco José Sobrinho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461617219
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes—premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization—that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461617219
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes—premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization—that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their formal structural linkages, as shown in this book, may inform a truly postmodern, globally applicable science of culture.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Author: Morag Shiach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185444X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185444X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
The Adventures of Ulysses
Author: Charles Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Lord Cornwallis Is Dead
Author: Nico Slate
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674989155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Do democracies bring about greater equality among their citizens? India embraced universal suffrage in 1947 and yet its citizens are far from realizing equality. The U.S. struggles with intolerance and inequality well into the twenty-first century. Nico Slate offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two former British colonies.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674989155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Do democracies bring about greater equality among their citizens? India embraced universal suffrage in 1947 and yet its citizens are far from realizing equality. The U.S. struggles with intolerance and inequality well into the twenty-first century. Nico Slate offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two former British colonies.