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Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque

Author : Isabel Torres
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque written by Isabel Torres and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama, art and music of the Hispanic Baroque. Thirteen essays engage with one of the most obsessive aspects of the Baroque aesthetic, a dedicated commitment in distinct artistic contexts to the treatment of mythological material. Within the various 'Baroques' uncovered, thereis a single unity of purpose. Meaning is always negotiable, but the process of interpretation is dependent upon intertextual forms of understanding, and presupposes the active participation of the receiver. The volume explores how the paradigmatic mythical symbols of a Renaissance epistemological world view can be considered a barometer of rupture and a gauge of the contradictory impulses of the time. Essays explore the differing functions of mythology in poetry [Quevedo, Espinosa, Góngora], prose [Cervantes], drama [Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Calderón], art [Velázquez], and music [Latin American opera]. Collectively they trace the dialectic of continuity and rupture that underpins the appropriation of classical mythology in the period; demonstrating that the mythological legacy was not as uniform, as allegorically dominated, nor as depleted of potential as we are sometimes led to believe. ISABEL TORRES is Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: JEAN ANDREWS, STEPHEN BOYD, D. W. CRUICKSHANK, TREVOR. J. DADSON, B.W. IFE, ANTHONY LAPPIN, OLIVER NOBLE WOOD, JEREMY ROBBINS, BRUCE SWANSEY, BARRY TAYLOR, ISABEL TORRES, D. GARETH WALTERS

The Last Folk Hero

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0358438713
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Last Folk Hero written by Jeff Pearlman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • The ultimate gift for sports lovers By the author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definitive biography of mythic multi-sport star Bo Jackson. “A legendary tome on a legendary athlete." —Chris Herring, author of Blood in the Garden From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat. He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports, and overtook Michael Jordan as America’s most recognizable pitchman. He was on our televisions, in our magazines, plastered across billboards. He was half man, half myth. Then, almost overnight, he was gone. He was Bo Jackson. Drawing on an astonishing 720 original interviews, New York Times bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman captures as never before the elusive truth about Jackson, Auburn University’s transcendent Heisman Trophy winner, superstar of both the NFL and Major League Baseball and ubiquitous “Bo Knows” Nike pitchman. Did Bo really jump over a parked Volkswagen? (Yes.) Did he actually run a 4.13 40? (Yes.) During the 1991 flight that nearly killed every member of the Chicago White Sox, was he in the cockpit trying to help? (Oddly, yes. Or no. Or … maybe.) Bo Jackson isn’t Jim Thorpe. He’s not Deion Sanders, either. No, Bo Jackson is Paul Bunyan. The Last Folk Hero is the true tale of Bo Jackson that only “master storyteller” (NPR.org) Jeff Pearlman could tell.

Myths Of The Greeks And Romans

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780222793
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Myths Of The Greeks And Romans written by Michael Grant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literature The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives. This book discusses not only the purely fictional myths, fairy-tales and folk-tales but the sagas and legends which have some historical grounding. This is not a dictionary of stories, rather a personal selection of the most important and memorable. Michael Grant re-tells these marvellous tales, and then explores the different ways in which they have appeared throughout literature. It is an inspiring study, filled with quotations from literary sources, which gives the reader a fascinating exposition of ancient culture as well as an understanding of how vital the classical world has been in shaping the western culture of today.

In The Shadow of Giants

Author : Leandro Vignoli
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785319345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book In The Shadow of Giants written by Leandro Vignoli and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to support a small team in a city where a footballing giant lurks? Leandro Vignoli spent 50 days on the road, getting up close and personal with the fans of 13 football clubs from ten of Europe's big cities to bring you the inside story. This book isn't about glitz and glamour - it's a celebration of each club's identity peppered with a sprinkling of history. From St Pauli's social activism to Millwall's struggle with hooliganism, from Rayo Vallecano's working-class roots to Torino's glory and tragedy, from the Catalan identity to East Germany's socialist past, no stone is left unturned as Vignoli visits teams in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Lisbon, Paris, Turin, Glasgow and London. Each chapter has a game as a backdrop alongside interviews with fans. A football fanatic himself, Vignoli weaves a narrative filled with passion and understanding that gets to the root of what it's really like to support an underdog side dwarfed by a footballing giant.

Hero and Leander

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780384354005
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quattrocento

Author : James McKean
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400075912
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quattrocento written by James McKean and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt O’Brien, an assistant curator and art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has always been passionate about the Italian Renaissance. But when he discovers a long-neglected portrait of a beautiful woman among the museum’s miles of storage bins, he becomes obsessed--and not only because he suspects that the painting is by Leonardo da Vinci. Something about the mysterious woman’s exquisite face stirs his memory, and when Matt finds himself spun across the centuries into Quattrocento Italy, where he arrives perfectly attired in 15th century clothing, he appears to be free to pursue her. A magically woven, richly detailed debut, Quattrocento tells an unforgettable tale of art, and love, and the unexpected places places where they meet.

The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander

Author : Brian Oliver Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440094X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander written by Brian Oliver Murdoch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.

The City of Scholars

Author : Margarete Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870460
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The City of Scholars written by Margarete Zimmermann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine De Pizan (Topics in Sociolinguistics).

ISLA

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book ISLA written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-07 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.

Avengers West Coast

Author : John Byrne
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302480669
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Avengers West Coast written by John Byrne and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Avengers West Coast #51-57 and #60-62. The Witch is back! The shocking truth about her children revealed, the Scarlet Witch suffers a nervous breakdown and descends into madness. Manipulated by her father, the mutant terrorist Magneto, Wanda faces her teammates - and her brother, Quicksilver. Can they rescue her from the clutches of Immortus - and save her very sanity? Plus: the return of Iron Man, and reunion of wartime allies Captain America and the Human Torch. Also featuring the villainy of the Mole Man, Loki, the U-Foes, Master Pandemonium and Hydro-Man!

Orozco's American Epic

Author : Mary K. Coffey
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003308
Total Pages : 360 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 360 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.

Comparative Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hero and Leander

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Hero and Leander written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walt Disney

Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679757473
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney written by Neal Gabler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434379
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.

Doctor Socrates

Author : Andrew Downie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471154092
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Doctor Socrates written by Andrew Downie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. A stunning new biography of Socrates, the iconic captain of the greatest Brazil side never to win the World Cup. Socrates was always special. A hugely talented athlete who graduated in medicine yet drank and smoked to excess. The attacking midfielder stood out - and not just because of his 6'4" frame. Fans were enthralled by his inch-perfect passes, his coolness in front of goal and his back heel, the trademark move that singled him out as the most unique footballer of his generation. Off the pitch, he was just as original, with a dedication to politics and social causes that no player has ever emulated. His biggest impact came as leader of Corinthians Democracy - a movement that gave everyone from the kitman to the president an equal say in the running of the club. At a time when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, it was truly revolutionary. Passionate and principled, entertaining and erudite, Socrates was as contradictory as he was complex. He was a socialist who voted for a return of Brazil's monarchy, a fiercely independent individual who was the ultimate team player, and a romantic who married four times and fathered six children. Armed with Socrates' unpublished memoir and hours of newly discovered interviews, Andrew Downie has put together the most comprehensive and compelling account of this iconic figure. Based on conversations with family members, close friends and former team-mates, this is a brilliant biography of a man who always stood up for what he believed in, whatever the cost. 'Brilliantly written and researched. Amazing life.' Alex Bellos, author of Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437929591
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups written by Mark S. Hamm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.