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Book Synopsis Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols) by : James R. Russell
Download or read book Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols) written by James R. Russell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 1629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a collection of articles published by Professor James R. Russell of Harvard University, in various journals over the past decades.
Book Synopsis Poets, Heroes, and Their Dragons - Vol 1 by : James R. Russell
Download or read book Poets, Heroes, and Their Dragons - Vol 1 written by James R. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a collection of articles published by Professor James R. Russell of Harvard University, in various journals over the past decades. James Russell has been one of the pioneers in the field of Armenian and Iranian Studies, where he has demonstrated the importance of Iranian civilization for pre-Christian Armenia. The connection between the two civilizations has been part of the tireless work of Professor Russell, and I hope this publication shows the immense importance of his work for both Armenian and Iranian Studies. I would like to thank Professor Houri Berberian, Director of the UC Irvine Armenian Studies Program, as well as Mr. Mamigonian and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), for supporting the publication of this book.
Book Synopsis Traditional Festivals [2 volumes] by : Christian Roy
Download or read book Traditional Festivals [2 volumes] written by Christian Roy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.
Book Synopsis The History of Scotish Poetry by : David Irving
Download or read book The History of Scotish Poetry written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Scottish Poetry ... Edited by J. A. Carlyle. With a Memoir [by D. Laing] and Glossary by : David Irving
Download or read book The History of Scottish Poetry ... Edited by J. A. Carlyle. With a Memoir [by D. Laing] and Glossary written by David Irving and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings by : Olga M. Davidson
Download or read book Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings written by Olga M. Davidson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abu'l-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651, scholarly attention has centered on the question of its historical accuracy. Addressing the literary as well as the historical and mythological aspects of the Shahnama, Olga M. Davidson makes this centerpiece of Iranian culture accessible to Western readers. Drawing on recent work in epic studies and oral poetics, Davidson considers analogies with Classical and medieval European narratives as she investigates the poem's social contexts. Her interpretation of the Shahnama focuses on both the figure of the poet himself and on his protagonists-the superhuman hero Rostam and the historical or historicized shahs. Exploring the Shahnama as an example of court poetry designed to glorify the idea of empire, Davidson identifies as a driving force of Ferdowsi's narrative a strong current of antagonism between king and hero. Ironically, she shows, it is the epic hero himself who poses the greatest threat to the concept of kingship that he is sworn to defend. Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings will be welcomed by readers working in such fields as comparative literature, Middle Eastern Studies, folklore, literary theory, and comparative religion.
Book Synopsis Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation by : Peter Rolfe Monks
Download or read book Medieval Codicology, Iconography, Literature and Translation written by Peter Rolfe Monks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains thirty-three papers, twelve with illustrations, by leading scholars in Medieval Codicology and Iconography, in Humanist Translations and in Medieval French, Early English, and Medieval Irish Literatures. Each throws new light on particular problems in a specialism.
Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) by : Phillip Pulsiano
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
Book Synopsis Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by : Thomas Percy
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos by : Anastasia Psoni
Download or read book The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos written by Anastasia Psoni and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a new religion, expecting that they, themselves, would inspire their community and usher in the change. In their longing for a new age, archaeology was a magnetic field for Yeats and Sikelianos, as it was for many writers and thinkers. After Sir Arthur Evans’s discovery of the Minoan Civilization where women appeared so peacefully prominent, the dream of re-creating a gynocentric mythology was no longer a fantasy. In Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the feminine figure appears in various forms and, like in a drama, it plays different roles. Significantly, a gynocentric mythology permeates the work of the two poets and this mythology is of pivotal importance in their poetry, their poetics and even in their life as the intensity of their creative desire brought to them female personalities to inspire and guide them. Indeed, in Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the image of the feminine holds a place within a historical context taking the reader into a larger social, political and religious space.
Book Synopsis Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets by : Thomas Percy
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early Medieval World [2 volumes] by : Michael Frassetto
Download or read book The Early Medieval World [2 volumes] written by Michael Frassetto and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a pivotal period in ancient human history: the fall of the Roman Empire and the birth of a new European civilization in the early Middle Ages. The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne addresses the social and material culture of this critical period in the evolution of Western society, covering the social, political, cultural, and religious history of the Mediterranean world and northern Europe. The two-volume set explains how invading and migrating barbarian tribes—spurred by raiding Huns from the steppes of Central Asia—contributed to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and documents how the blending of Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Christian cultures birthed a new civilization in Western Europe, creating the Christian Church and the modern nation-state. A-Z entries discuss political transformation, changing religious practices in daily life, sculpture and the arts, material culture, and social structure, and provide biographies of important men and women in the transitional period of late antiquity. The work will be extremely helpful to students learning about the factors that contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire—an important and common topic in world history curricula.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs [2 Volumes] by : Jean-Charles Seigneuret
Download or read book Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs [2 Volumes] written by Jean-Charles Seigneuret and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-11-21 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This index is a veritable who's who of the greats of Western literature. . . . The Board recommends it for every collection whose users conduct analytical studies of literature. Reference Books Bulletin The powerful hold that literature exercises is based primarily on recognition--the reader's ability to identify with others through shared human concerns that transcend ttace, time, and cultural boundaries. These universal themes, and how they have been treated in literature from the classical period to the present, are the subject of the critical essays comprising this volume. A fascinating resource for students and general readers and an essential research tool for scholars in literature, it is the first thematic reference on this scale to be published in English. The dictionary consists of 143 essays contributed by 98 specialists in world literature. Topics covered include themes relating to adventure, family life, the supernatural, eroticism, status, humor, idealism, terror, and many other categories of human experience. Each entry begins with a defintion and a sketch on the origin and historical background of the literary theme. The topical essay discusses the significance and occurrence of the theme in world literature and supplies information on geographical area, genre, style, and chronology. Entries conclude with a selected bibliography of scholarship in the area. A cross-index to themes and motifs will enable the reader to find information on secondary or related topics. Convenient to use and presented in a standardized format, this major new reference will be an important acquisition for libraries with collections in English, American, and world literature.
Book Synopsis Structures of Epic Poetry by : Christiane Reitz
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.
Book Synopsis Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date.. by : Thomas Percy
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date.. written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ... The sixth edition, etc by : Thomas Percy
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ... The sixth edition, etc written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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