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The Epic Cosmos

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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.

Epic of Evolution

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Author : Eric Chaisson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231135603
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 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 514 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.

Cosmo Vol. 1

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Author : Ian Flynn
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications (Trade)
ISBN 13 : 1682558649
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Cosmo Vol. 1 written by Ian Flynn and published by Archie Comic Publications (Trade). This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In space, no one can hear you laugh! Writer Ian Flynn (Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and artist Tracy Yardley (Sonic Universe, Hero Cats) revitalize COSMO THE MERRY MARTIAN as part of the Archie Action line-up, bringing the classic 1950s space alien into the present day in an all-new series! Get ready for out of this world fun in the ALL-NEW sci-fi adventure series COSMO! Join Cosmo and his Space-Ace Martian crew as they find adventure and dangers in the deepest corners of space! Their latest mission turns into a much larger adventure when they stumble upon their most unique specimen yet: A panicked human!

Cosmo #1

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Author : Ian Flynn
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications
ISBN 13 : 1682554090
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Cosmo #1 written by Ian Flynn and published by Archie Comic Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW ONGOING SERIES! “Space Aces” – Part One: Cosmo is a Martian with the skills of a warrior and a heart of gold. He’s the leader of his M.A.R.S. unit that explores the solar system. What was meant to be a routine scouting mission turns into a much larger adventure Cosmo and his friends stumble upon a panicked human and encounter some ferocious foes!

Homer

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Author : Barbara Graziosi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849667462
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Homer written by Barbara Graziosi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic period, the Greeks saw the lliad and Odyssey neither as literary works in the modern sense nor as the products of oral poetry. Instead, they regarded them as belonging to a much wider history of the divine cosmos, whose structures and themes are reflected in the resonant patterns of Homer's traditional language and narrative techniques. Part II illustrates this claim by looking at some central aspects of the Homeric poems: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame and poetry. Each section shows how the patterns and preoccupations of Homeric storytelling reflect a historical vision that encompasses the making of the universe, from its beginnings when Heaven mated with Earth, to the present day.

The Epic Film in World Culture

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Author : Robert Burgoyne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113585534X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Film in World Culture written by Robert Burgoyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series explores the rebirth of the epic film genre in the contemporary period, a period marked by heightened and conflicting appeals to national, ethnic, and religious belonging.The orginal essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and the particular provenance of the epic as an expression of national mythology and aspirations, challenging our understanding of epics produced in the present as well as our perception of epic films from the past. The contributors will explore new critical approaches to contemporary as well as older epic films, drawing on ideas from cultural studies, historiography, classics, and film studies.

Carl Sagan: Celebrated Cosmos Scholar

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Author : Rebecca Felix
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532159897
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Carl Sagan: Celebrated Cosmos Scholar written by Rebecca Felix and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Carl Sagan, known for his research on extraterrestrial life! Follow Sagan's story as he theorizes on the temperature of Venus's surface, works with NASA to build the Mariner 2, Viking I, and Viking II probes, and creates the popular PBS program Cosmos. Infographics, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Epic of Evolution

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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.

THE EPICS OF CHINA

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Author : Rinchindorji
Publisher : American Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1631816608
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book THE EPICS OF CHINA written by Rinchindorji and published by American Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Epics of China introduces selected epic traditions of China, providing information about them, insights into their literary traditions, and theories concerning their origins, historical development, cultural context, structure, bards, and audiences. The book deals with both historical epics and contemporary “living” epic traditions. Examples are drawn from several of China’s fifty-five official ethnic minority peoples, focusing on epics from various historical or present-day Mongol subgroups of North China, most notably Tibetan and Kirgiz, as well as epics from peoples of Southwest China, such as the Zhuang, Yi, Miao, Dong, and Dai. Several chapters deal, too, with the early Turkic epics that once circulated in parts of northern China and Central Asia. On the whole, the book’s chapters are grouped into three sections: early epics, small and medium-length epics, and the great heroic epics Jangar and Manas. Epics from the North are mainly heroic narratives focusing on the exploits of martial heroes. They feature story lines centered on bride-kidnapping, trials undergone by the suitor, and encounters with multi-headed demons (Mongol mangus), one-eyed giants, and female demons of the underworld. Southern epics focus on tales of how early deities created the sky, earth, water and land forms, and living beings, often listing specific plants, animals, and local tribes. Some of these epics involve female creator figures, and many play out in a dynamic process that moves through phases of initial creation, destruction by fire, a second creation, a destructive flood, and the ultimate re-creation of the world as we now know it. There are also heroic epics from southern China, most notably from the Yi, Dai, and Miao.

Cosmo's Moon

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Author : Devin Scillian
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1633621847
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Cosmo's Moon written by Devin Scillian and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmo loves the moon, and the moon loves Cosmo. They both come to realize though that lots of things depend on the moon - the ocean tides, morning glories, and the dogs, who can't stop howling. A magical book about the power of friendship and the nature of responsibility, Cosmo's moon will charm everyone who's ever been bewitched by the beauty of the moon. "Cosmo loved the moon. He had moon pajamas and a moon nightlight and stars and moons all over his bedroom. Every night, Cosmo's mother and father gave him a hug and a kiss and tucked him into his bed. But just as soon as they closed his bedroom door, he threw aside the covers, ran to the open window, and watched as the golden moon came into the night sky just above the sycamore tree. And as a gentle night breeze blew across the curtains, Cosmo would talk and the moon would listen."

The Caribbean Novel Since 1945

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Author : Michael Niblett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032476
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 written by Michael Niblett and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state. Engaging with the historical and political impact of capitalist imperialism, decolonization, class struggle, ethnic conflict, and gender relations, it considers the ways in which Caribbean authors have sought to rethink and re-narrate the traumatic past and often problematic 'postcolonial' present of the region's peoples. It pays particular attention to the role cultural practices such as stickfighting and Carnival, as well as religious rituals and beliefs like Vodou and Myal, have played in efforts to reshape the novel form. In so doing, it provides an original perspective on the importance of these practices, with their emphasis on bodily movement, to the development of new philosophies of history. Beginning in the post-WWII period, when optimism surrounding the possibility of social and political change was at a peak, The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 interrogates the trajectories of various national projects through to the present. It explores how the textual histories of common motifs in Caribbean writing have functioned to encode the fluctuating fortunes of different political dispensations. The scope of the analysis is varied and comprehensive, covering both critically acclaimed and lesser-known authors from the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone traditions. These include Jacques Roumain, Sam Selvon, Marie Chauvet, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Earl Lovelace, Patrick Chamoiseau, Erna Brodber, Wilson Harris, Shani Mootoo, Oonya Kempadoo, Ernest Moutoussamy, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Mixing detailed analysis of key texts with wider surveys of significant trends, this book emphasizes the continuing significance of representations of the nation-state to literary articulations of resistance to the imperialist logic of global capital.

The Epic Trickster in American Literature

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Author : Gregory E. Rutledge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136194835
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Trickster in American Literature written by Gregory E. Rutledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic performances. Rutledge locates trickster-like capacities within the epic hero archetype (the "epic trickster" paradigm) and constructs an Homeric Diaspora, which is to say that the modern Homeric performance foundation lies at an absolute time and distance away from the ancient storytelling performance needed to understand the cautionary aesthetic inseparable from epic potential. As traditional epic performances demonstrate, unchecked epic trickster dynamism anticipates not only brutal imperialism and creative diversity, but the greatest threat to everyone, an eco-apocalypse. Relying upon the preeminent scholarship on African-American trickster-heroes, traditional African heroic performances, and cultural studies approaches to Greco-Roman epics, Rutledge traces the epic trickster aesthetic through three seminal African-American novels keenly attuned to the American Homeric Diaspora: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Lost in the Cosmos

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Author : Walker Percy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453216340
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Cosmos written by Walker Percy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke . . . to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, Lost in the Cosmos is National Book Award–winning author Walker Percy’s humorous take on a familiar genre—as well as an invitation to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, Lost in the Cosmos is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.

Star Stuff

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Author : Stephanie Roth Sisson
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466882212
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Star Stuff written by Stephanie Roth Sisson and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every child who has ever looked up at the stars and asked, "What are they?" comes the story of a curious boy who never stopped wondering: Carl Sagan. When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never stopped marveling at the universe and seeking to understand it better. Star Stuff follows Carl from his days star gazing from the bedroom window of his Brooklyn apartment, through his love of speculative science fiction novels, to his work as an internationally renowned scientist who worked on the Voyager missions exploring the farthest reaches of space. This book introduces the beloved man who brought the mystery of the cosmos into homes across America to a new generation of dreamers and star gazers.

The Contemporary Jesus

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Author : Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791433751
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Jesus written by Thomas J. J. Altizer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrates a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in philosophy, literature, and religion. The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan's Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. Altizer also examines the Jesus who emerges from the Jesus Seminar. Seldom, if ever, has there been such an intense public and critical engagement with Jesus, as our New Testament scholarship is wholly isolated from both our imaginative and our conceptual traditions, and likewise isolated from all genuine theological or even religious understanding. The Contemporary Jesus bridges that chasm, this alone making the book unique, but the book is also an embodiment of a contemporary radical theology which is Christian and universal at once. It intends a critical recovery of the original Jesus that can be integrated with our deeper history, a history which is finally a universal history, but a universal history that is wholly opaque to our given and established theological understanding.

The Wounded Body

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Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791443828
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Wounded Body written by Dennis Patrick Slattery and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Cosmos

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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: