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The Best of the Argonauts

Author : James J. Clauss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313801
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Best of the Argonauts written by James J. Clauss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' "curious and demanding poem" to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

The Best of the Argonauts

Author : James J. Clauss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079250
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book The Best of the Argonauts written by James J. Clauss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' "curious and demanding poem" to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition.

The Argonauts

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 155597340X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Argonauts written by Maggie Nelson and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. It binds an account of Nelson's relationship with her partner and a journey to and through a pregnancy to a rigorous exploration of sexuality, gender, and "family." An insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

Jason and the Argonauts

Author : Apollonius of Rhodes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101616806
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by Apollonius of Rhodes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princess Medea. Written in the third century B.C., this epic story of one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology, with its combination of the fantastical and the real, its engagement with traditions of science, astronomy and medicine, winged heroes, and a magical vessel that speaks, is truly without parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and is now available in an accessible and engaging translation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Jason and the Argonauts

Author : Robert Byrd
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735227659
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by Robert Byrd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of Electric Ben The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling of the legend for a new generation of readers. Complete with explanatory notes and illustrated back matter, Jason and the Argonauts traces each step of our hero’s journey, from the Golden Fleece’s origin story and Jason’s childhood to his triumphant return with the prize and eventual death. Deftly designed to accommodate glorious large pictures and captioned insets, the book is not only a great story, but a wealth of information about ancient Greece.

Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages

Author : Jason Colavito
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615667
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages written by Jason Colavito and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age, from the medieval world to today, the Jason story has been told and retold with new stories, details and meanings. This book explores the epic history of a colorful myth and probes the most ancient origins of the quest for the Golden Fleece—a quest that takes us to the very dawn of Greek religion and its close relationship with Near Eastern peoples and cultures.

English Readers Level 2: Jason and the Argonauts

Author : Andy Prentice
Publisher : English Readers Level 2
ISBN 13 : 9781474947930
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book English Readers Level 2: Jason and the Argonauts written by Andy Prentice and published by English Readers Level 2. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the famous Greek myth. Jason's wicked uncle has set Jason an impossible task: he must bring back the legendary Golden Fleece from the land of Colchis. Luckily Jason has the help of some of Greece's greatest heroes, as well as the powerful princess Medea. With fun activities and online audio in both British English and American English. Beautifully produced with world-class full-colour artwork throughout. Classic stories retold in a fluent and natural style, made highly accessible for English language learners. Series devised and edited in collaboration with acclaimed ELT consultant Peter Viney.

Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)

Author : Apollonius (Rhodius.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199538727
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) written by Apollonius (Rhodius.) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a task that no man has ever completed: to bring back a magical ram's fleece that lies hidden in a far-off land, guarded by an all-seeing serpent. But, one man, Jason, must try. His life depends on it. Upon the orders of the King, Jason must cross deadly seas with the crew of his ship.

Huntress

Author : Malinda Lo
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 031617520X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Huntress written by Malinda Lo and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature is out of balance in the human kingdom. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. And the people's survival hangs in the balance. To solve the crisis, the oracle stones are cast, and Kaede and Taisin, two seventeen-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous and unheard-of journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen. Taisin is a sage, thrumming with magic, and Kaede is of the earth, without a speck of the otherworldly. And yet the two girls' destinies are drawn together during the mission. As members of their party succumb to unearthly attacks and fairy tricks, the two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But the Kingdom needs only one huntress to save it, and what it takes could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. The exciting adventure prequel to Malinda Lo's highly acclaimed novel Ash is overflowing with lush Chinese influences and details inspired by the I Ching, and is filled with action and romance.

Jason and Medea

Author : Apollonius (Rhodius.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jason and Medea written by Apollonius (Rhodius.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Argonautika

Author : Mary Zimmerman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126060
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Argonautika written by Mary Zimmerman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in her Tony Award–winning Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman transforms Greek mythology—here the story of Jason and the Argonauts—into a mesmerizing piece of theater. Encountering an array of daunting challenges in their “first voyage of the world,” Jason and his crew illustrate the essence of all such journeys to follow—their unpredictability, their inspiring and overwhelming breadth of emotion, their lessons in the inevitability of failure and loss. Bursts of humor and fantastical creatures enrich a story whose characters reveal remarkable complexity. Medea is profoundly sympathetic even as the seeds are sown for the monstrous life ahead of her, and the brute strength of Hercules leaves him no less vulnerable to the vicissitudes of love. Zimmerman brings to Argonautika her trademark ability to encompass the full range of human experience in a work as entertaining as it is enlightening.

Jason and the Argonauts

Author : Will Osborne
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780590411523
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by Will Osborne and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To capture the Golden Fleece, Jason and the Argonauts brave fire-breathing bulls and the serpent that guards the magical fleeces.

Jane

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766580
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Jane written by Maggie Nelson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane’s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson’s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane’s sister) to retrace the path of Jane’s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.

The New Argonauts

Author : AnnaLee Saxenian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674025660
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The New Argonauts written by AnnaLee Saxenian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home countries--seek their fortune in distant lands by launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. Their story illuminates profound transformations in the global economy. Economic geographer AnnaLee Saxenian has followed this transformation, exploring one of its great paradoxes: how the "brain drain" has become "brain circulation," a powerful economic force for development of formerly peripheral regions. The new Argonauts--armed with Silicon Valley experience and relationships and the ability to operate in two countries simultaneously--quickly identify market opportunities, locate foreign partners, and manage cross-border business operations. The New Argonauts extends Saxenian's pioneering research into the dynamics of competition in Silicon Valley. The book brings a fresh perspective to the way that technology entrepreneurs build regional advantage in order to compete in global markets. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders will benefit from Saxenian's firsthand research into the investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new companies while remaining tied to powerful economic and professional communities in the United States. For Americans accustomed to unchallenged economic domination, the fast-growing capabilities of China and India may seem threatening. But as Saxenian convincingly displays in this pathbreaking book, the Argonauts have made America richer, not poorer.

Jason and the Argonauts

Author : B. A. Hoena
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1491420723
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Jason and the Argonauts told in graphic novel format"--

Jason and the Argonauts

Author :
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404866698
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Jason and the Argonauts written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Pelias promises Jason the throne if he can capture the Golden Fleece, join him on his journey and see if he can accomplich the task.

Adjacent to the Argonauts

Author : Julian Blatchley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848762941
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Adjacent to the Argonauts written by Julian Blatchley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With echoes of Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’, Adjacent to the Argonauts is a humorous sailor’s yarn written both for the Old Salt and Landlubber, and which also combines many characteristics of a guide-book.