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Legendary Figures

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803227392
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Figures written by Clayton Koelb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels,øfrom Flaubert?s Salammb– to Christa Wolf?s Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new ?historical sense,? which arose in the mid?nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert?s writings. What is crucial about the new historical sense is that it views the past as essentially ?alien? and ?other.? The connection between past and present may be powerful, but it is always indirect and difficult to negotiate. As a result, the past seems exotic and unattainable, the object of nostalgia and desire. Koelb distinguishes this sense of history, with its persistent discontinuities between past and present, from the more continuous and progressive views of history of novelists like Sir Walter Scott and such philosophers as Hegel, Marx, and Luk¾cs. In their writings, history ?proceeds according to the laws of cause and effect, and each epoch can be understood as both the result of the previous one and the cause of the next.? In contrast, the modernist writers that Koelb examines?Flaubert, Pater, Mann, Broch, Wilder, Yourcenar, and Wolf?imagine a past that is ?mythic? and ?legendary? and thus a metaphor for everything distant, complicated, unattainable, and unknowable.

Legendary Creatures and Monsters

Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1627125795
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Creatures and Monsters written by Dean Miller and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive atlas provides information on supernatural beings from around the world, presented in alphabetical order and including such creatures as changelings, the hydra, and werewolves. Sidebars and boxes highlight interesting facts, glossary, an index, and resources for further study conclude this meticulously illustrated book.

Legendary People's Leaders Encouraging Patriotism

Author : Gopi Krishna Kunwar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary People's Leaders Encouraging Patriotism written by Gopi Krishna Kunwar and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: The Life and Times of Birsa Munda The Life and Times of Bhagat Singh The Life and Times of Chandrashekhar Azad

The Parade of Heroes

Author : Tristram Potter Coffin
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Parade of Heroes written by Tristram Potter Coffin and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World written by Graham Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.

The 100

Author : Michael H. Hart
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806513508
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The 100 written by Michael H. Hart and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listing of 100 people from around the world and from many different fields of endeavor, whose actions--the author has determined--have had, or will have, the greatest influence on the course of history.

Legendary Locals of Anderson Island

Author : Lucy Stephenson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439651248
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Legendary Locals of Anderson Island written by Lucy Stephenson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From explorer Peter Puget to bachelor Johnson Brothers, whose farm became a regional museum, Legendary Locals of Anderson Island chronicles the emergence of a way of life that unfailingly awakens echoes of days long past. Anderson Island, the southernmost of all islands in Washington State's Puget Sound, was settled in the late 1800s by immigrants predominantly from the Scandinavian countries. They naturally brought with them and practiced their old-country ways of navigating, farming, and building. In time, due to its remoteness and relative inaccessibility, a society of self-reliant yet closely connected residents took root. The subsistence farming, logging, and fishing practiced by the early pioneers have mostly given way to cottage industries or daily commutes to the mainland. While retirement has become the majority occupation of today's islanders, a vibrant community life continues to flourish, centered around activities sponsored by the island's numerous volunteer-staffed organizations.

Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Summary & Analysis

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

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Download or read book Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Summary & Analysis written by Instaread and published by Instaread Summaries. This book was released on 2015-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends and Lies by Bill O’Reilly and David Fisher | Summary & Analysis Preview: In Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Real West, each chapter is a standalone account of the life of an individual who was in some way notorious or iconic and lived their life during what is known as the Wild West, a period of the American frontier that spans from 1783 to 1920. Daniel Boone was a survivalist outdoorsman. In 1778, Boone was charged with treason for negotiating a truce between British forces and a Native American tribe. Boone defended himself and the charges were dismissed. In 1781, Boone ran for state legislature in Virginia and was twice elected to that office. After the Revolutionary War, he joined men fighting against Native Americans who were determined to hold on to their land. He was later robbed of a significant amount of money entrusted to him by Virginia settlers and spent decades selling land to pay it back… PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of Legends and Lies • Summary of book • Introduction to the Important People in the book • Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style

The People's Peking Man

Author : Sigrid Schmalzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226738612
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The People's Peking Man written by Sigrid Schmalzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature. The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. By focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, The People’s Peking Man offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.

Chinese Religion

Author : Xinzhong Yao
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847064760
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Religion written by Xinzhong Yao and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new introduction To The field of Chinese religion and culture ideally suited to undergraduate students.

The Everything Mafia Book

Author : Scott M Dietche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605507229
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Mafia Book written by Scott M Dietche and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkableùand often sordidùworld of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al Capone to John Gotti, you will come away with a better understanding of AmericaÆs most notorious crime families. This book features colorful information on: The Sicilian Mafia The ôFirst Familyö of the American Mafia The ôrealö Untouchables The mob and politicians The five New York families Packed full of up-to-date gangster information, this guide will satisfy even the most ardent true-crime enthusiasts."

Helen of Troy

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911932
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Ruby Blondell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. The myth of Helen is the central site in which the ancient Greeks expressed and reworked their culture's anxieties about erotic desire. Despite the passage of three millennia, contemporary culture remains almost obsessively preoccupied with all the power and danger of female beauty and sexuality that Helen still represents. Yet Helen, the embodiment of these concerns for our purported cultural ancestors, has been little studied from this perspective. Such issues are also central to contemporary feminist thought. Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own. Moving from Homer and Hesiod to Sappho, Aeschylus, and Euripides, Ruby Blondell offers a fresh examination of the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. In addition to literary sources, Blondell considers the archaeological record, which contains evidence of Helen's role as a cult figure, worshipped by maidens and newlyweds. The result is a compelling new interpretation of this alluring figure.

Kokka

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Kokka written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Responses to 101 Questions on Buddhism

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809138784
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Responses to 101 Questions on Buddhism written by John Renard and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the popular question-and-answer format, this book examines the beliefs, practices, spirituality and culture of one of the most important families of faith communities, Buddhism.

Directory of Historical Figures

Author : Salem Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directory of Historical Figures written by Salem Press and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel

Author : Stanley Harstine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567047598
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Moses as a Character in the Fourth Gospel written by Stanley Harstine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did first century Mediterranean readers of the Fourth Gospel have comparable literary examples to inform their comprehension of Moses as a character? In addressing this question, Harstine's study falls into two parts. The first is an analysis of the character Moses as utilized in the text of the Fourth Gospel. The second is an examination of other Hellenistic narrative texts, in which the character of Homer is also considered, as another important legendary figure with whom the readers of the Fourth Gospel would have been familiar.

British Historical Fiction before Scott

Author : A. Stevens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230275303
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book British Historical Fiction before Scott written by A. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.