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Imaginary Epics from the Cosmos

Author : Darryl L. Gopaul
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781450236003
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Epics from the Cosmos written by Darryl L. Gopaul and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Has An Intruder: Unlike anything earthlings would have expected. It came from the deep reaches of the cosmos. NEXT Proto: A small earth space vessel is sent to explore a planet with only botanical life forms. One of the three astronauts has an unusual experience in metamorphosis. NEXT Space Academy: A suburban family meets two aliens who wish to take the children to an Academy in the cosmos for which the parents permission is required. Welcome to stories from the cosmos where there are threats to mankind but of a natural type just the passing of an unusual moon-like structure. There is some order in the great depth of space where humans may just have grown from the seed of a Mother of Creation Tree. Humans have spent a fortune seeking sentient forms of life. It is possible that alien beings are already here. Perhaps they have been educating earthlings and re releasing them into society.

Imaginary Epics from the Cosmos

Author : Darryl L. Gopaul
Publisher : D. Gopaul Consulting & Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781450235990
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Epics from the Cosmos written by Darryl L. Gopaul and published by D. Gopaul Consulting & Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Has An Intruder: Unlike anything earthlings would have expected. It came from the deep reaches of the cosmos. NEXT Proto: A small earth space vessel is sent to explore a planet with only botanical life forms. One of the three astronauts has an unusual experience in metamorphosis. NEXT Space Academy: A suburban family meets two aliens who wish to take the children to an Academy in the cosmos for which the parent's permission is required. Welcome to stories from the cosmos where there are threats to mankind but of a natural type just the passing of an unusual moon-like structure. There is some order in the great depth of space where humans may just have grown from the seed of a Mother of Creation Tree. Humans have spent a fortune seeking sentient forms of life. It is possible that alien beings are already here. Perhaps they have been educating earthlings and re releasing them into society.

The Epic Imaginary

Author : Charlton Payne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110271990
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Imaginary written by Charlton Payne and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‐ and hence legitimating ‐ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.

Adventures in the Cosmos

Author : Darryl Gopaul
Publisher : D. Gopaul Consulting & Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1453788476
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Cosmos written by Darryl Gopaul and published by D. Gopaul Consulting & Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planets and their effect on the human race are at the heart of this stellar collection of provocative science fiction short stories, Adventures in the Cosmos by Darryl L. Gopaul. A second menacing moon appears in one story, which awakens powerful new forces on Earth. In another story, humanoids venture onto Earth and start to behave very differently than they usually do, right up until the moment they are called back to their home planet. In other stories, humans face a new biological phenomenon or gain new abilities, like telepathy. Hinting that strange, powerful forces are quietly guiding humans on Earth, Gopaul probes the possibilities that exist in the deepest pockets of outer space and right here on our home planet. Inspiring, stunning, and sometimes shocking, Adventures in the Cosmos shows that while the universe is our new frontier, it will take not just bravado but understanding to conquer or control it. A thinking person's collection of sci fi, Adventures in the Cosmos is both beautifully written and bolstered by the expertise of Gopaul, who is a microbiologist. In story after story, he prods you to see the earth, the planets, and yourself in new and original ways.

The Epic Cosmos

Author : James Larry Allums
Publisher : Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture
ISBN 13 : 9780911005226
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Cosmos written by James Larry Allums and published by Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the second volume in its studies of the four genres, with Larry Allums as editor. Louise Cowan postulates a culture-generating cosmos as the identifying mark of epic. The essays illustrate the applicability of her theory of genres to major works in the epic tradition. An excellent resource for those studying the social, psychological and historical aspects of epic as a literary art form. Dallas Institute Publications publishes works concerned with the imaginative, mythic, and symbolic sources of culture. 378 pages, indexed.

Alien Manuscripts, Onyx Cubes & Runes

Author : Darryl Gopaul
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532085583
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Alien Manuscripts, Onyx Cubes & Runes written by Darryl Gopaul and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale involves human imagination that describes the massive progress of mankind throughout his short primate evolution. If the dates of the astro physicists are to be believed the findings of antiquity do not tangibly reveal the developed skills necessary for the innovative advancements attributed to our primitive past. Ancient monoliths and structures have inherent measurements that man at that stage of evolving did not have the education or ability to calculate the metrics of Earth in this solar system. Genetic insertion assisted in hastening the evolution of this primate species of nomads wandering the Earth in search of food. Who interfered? Why? Were these ancient artifacts left for a future generation to interpret and report to this planet of story creators and story tellers? An old couple tries to work out the puzzle unknowing that mankind’s future was being discussed out in the solar sytem.

Encyclopedia Library

Author : Darryl Gopaul
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532082150
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia Library written by Darryl Gopaul and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Man after evolving from the trees and leading a social life, is filled with conjecture of what happens after death. Towards this end many civilizations throughout Man’s History have constructed edifices to try and return to this pre-world or to travel to a more fitting world of paradise. In this story, a modern twist plays out in sending the ashes and piece of the departed tissue into deep space. These are the remains of a science fiction writer and his spouse of 60 plus years. On a planet, on the other side of the galaxy, the capsule with their contents are found by a highly evolved alien society. Bringing their best scientists together the tissues are used to bring the whole being back. He is returned to find his naked self in a tissue culture tank. The story uses all the current stages of laboratory stem cell research and tissue culture growth in returning a being from a single cell. Why did the deceased author wish to participate in this celestial experiment and why did he need his spouse with him? Was it his feeling that there were other more developed life forms in the cosmos? He intuitively knew that in one human life time he would never be able to find such a cosmic being, he gave himself the time of eternity?

The Worldmakers

Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022628882X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Worldmakers written by Ayesha Ramachandran and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

Epic Grandeur

Author : Masaki Mori
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432020
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Epic Grandeur written by Masaki Mori and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines both Western and Japanese epic traditions to argue for a new concept of the epic--an epic of peace, toward which the genre is evolving globally.

Fictions of the Cosmos

Author : Frédérique Aït-Touati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226011240
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of the Cosmos written by Frédérique Aït-Touati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. A work that speaks to the history of science and literary studies, Fictions of the Cosmos explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, Frédérique Aït-Touati shows that it was through the telling of stories—such as through accounts of celestial journeys—that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Aït-Touati draws from both cosmological treatises and fictions of travel and knowledge, as well as personal correspondences, drawings, and instruments, to emphasize the multiple borrowings between scientific and literary discourses. This volume sheds new light on the practices of scientific invention, experimentation, and hypothesis formation by situating them according to their fictional or factual tendencies.

Epic of Evolution

Author : Eric Chaisson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231135610
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Epic of Evolution written by Eric Chaisson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the way he examines the development of the most microscopic and the most immense aspects of our universe and the complex ways in which they interact."--Jacket.

A Disimprisoned Epic

Author : Mark Cumming
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280259X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book A Disimprisoned Epic written by Mark Cumming and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution captured the Victorian imagination with vivid pictures of a society in conflict. A rich, brilliant, and arresting book, it defined a crucial epoch in modern European history for generations of British readers. Nevertheless, The French Revolution has lost not only its general readership but also its academic audience, for it is not history as history is commonly practiced, and it is not literature as literature is commonly understood. Only in the past few decades has this difficult yet rewarding text moved back to the central position it deserves. In A Disimprisoned Epic, Mark Cumming elucidates the formal genesis of the French Revolution in Carlyle's literary criticism and reestablishes it as an epic experiment in literary form. He discusses specifically how The French Revolution combines the myths of epic with the facts of history; the nobility of tragedy with the grotesque absurdity of farce; the devotion of elegy with the dismissive rancor of satire; and the didactic clarity of emblem and allegory with the confusion of symbol, fragment, and phantasmagory. A Disimprisoned Epic will be useful to scholars and students of Carlyle and of Victorian British and American literature.

Structures of Epic Poetry

Author : Christiane Reitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110492598
Total Pages : 2756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Structures of Epic Poetry written by Christiane Reitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 2756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

Orozco's American Epic

Author : Mary K. Coffey
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003308
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Orozco's American Epic written by Mary K. Coffey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1932 and 1934, José Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.

Imaginary Worlds

Author : Lin Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Worlds written by Lin Carter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and literary criticism of works of fantasy, chiefly of fantasies written for adults. Includes techniques for fantasy writers.

Untimely Epic

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588192
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Untimely Epic written by Tom Phillips and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine the layers of poetic and intellectual history from which Apollonius crafts his poem. Taking its lead from ancient critical preoccupations with poetry's ethical significance, this volume argues that the Argonautica produces an understanding of time and temporal experience which ramifies variously in readers' lives. When describing the people and creatures who occupied the past, Apollonius extends readers' capacity for empathetic response to the worlds inhabited by others. In the ecphrasis of Jason's cloak and the account of Jason's conversations with Medea, readers are invited to scrutinize the relationship between exempla and temporal change, while episodes such as the taking of the Golden Fleece explore links between perceptions and their temporal situation. Running through the poem, and through the readings that comprise this book, is an attention to the intellectual potential of the 'untimely' — objects, experience, and language which do not belong straightforwardly to a particular time. Treatment of such phenomena is crucial to the poem's aspiration to inform and expand readers' understanding of themselves as subjects in and of history.

The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

Author : Catherine Morley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135899592
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction written by Catherine Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.