The Mirror of Antiquity

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806609
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror of Antiquity by : David Wills

Download or read book The Mirror of Antiquity written by David Wills and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last century, writers as diverse as William Golding, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, and Laurie Lee, were captivated by Greece. They were joined in their production of travel accounts by hundreds of lesser-known authors. This book exposes how the responses of travellers were conditioned by much more than their own opinions and personalities. The British education system, classical scholarship, and the heroism demonstrated by the Greeks during the Nazi invasion of their country, all contributed to shaping travel narratives. The author analyses the way in which all of the major archaeological sites were described—including the Athenian Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia, Heinrich Schliemann’s Mycenae, and Sir Arthur Evans’ Knossos in Crete. The representation of the modern Greek people, particularly in the period after the Second World War, is also explored at length. Viewed as relics of the past, the Greeks in literature were given the qualities and appearance of their ancestors. David Wills shows how in the hands of twentieth century travel writers, Greece became less a modern country, and more a mirror of antiquity. This book is essential reading for all who are interested in the history of travel and tourism, reception of the classical past, and recent Greek history.

New Oxford English

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Publisher : Oxford University
ISBN 13 : 9780198311911
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis New Oxford English by : Anne Powling

Download or read book New Oxford English written by Anne Powling and published by Oxford University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Oxford English Students' Book 2 has been designed to cover the requirements of the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3. The Students' Book provides: · A flexible resource for teaching the National curriculum, structured around the four modules · An integrated approach to language study at all stages · A rich and varied range of authors, poets, and playwrights from different centuries and cultures · Language Study Units at the end of every module providing extensive language work from source texts, which can be used alongside the featured texts or separately · IT opportunities built into the books throughout · Varied activities in each module which help to develop individual and group study skills

Out of the Woods

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326879
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)

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Book Synopsis Out of the Woods by : Nancy L. Canepa

Download or read book Out of the Woods written by Nancy L. Canepa and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 300 years, this volume of essays articulates the literary, ideological and historical contexts in which fairy tales evolved in Italy and France. The tales analyzed were each appropriated from oral tradition by professional men and women of letters and thus reveal a cultural history

Books in Print Supplement

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2576 pages
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Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare’s Mirrors

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104012822X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Mirrors written by Edward Evans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying drama cannot reflect the substance of human nature, and developed a method of characterization, through metadrama, self-awareness and soliloquy, to project St. Paul’s idea of conscience onto the Elizabethan stage. This revolutionary method of characterization, aesthetic existence beyond performance, has long been sensed but remains frustratingly uncategorized. Shakespeare’s Mirrors charts the invention of a drama that staged the unstageable: St. Paul’s metaphysical conception of human nature glimpsed through a looking glass darkly.

Turbulent Mirror

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Turbulent Mirror by : John Briggs

Download or read book Turbulent Mirror written by John Briggs and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many faces of chaos and reveals how its laws direct most of the familiar processes of everyday life.

The Mirror of Magic

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620557916
Total Pages : 715 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror of Magic by : Kurt Seligmann

Download or read book The Mirror of Magic written by Kurt Seligmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collector’s edition of the classic, illustrated, and comprehensive history of magic and the occult • Written by renowned Surrealist and magic scholar Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962) • Includes all 250 illustrations from the original 1948 edition • Explores magical practices and beliefs from their origins in the ancient world through the heyday of secret societies in the 18th century In the occult classic The Mirror of Magic, renowned Surrealist Kurt Seligmann (1900-1962) draws from his encyclopedic practitioner’s knowledge and extensive antiquarian collection to offer a comprehensive, illustrated history of magic and the occult from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt through the 18th century. He explores the gods and divinatory arts of the legendary Sumerians and the star-wise Babylonians, including the birth of astrology. He examines the afterlife beliefs of the ancient Egyptians and the dream interpretation practices and oracles of ancient Greece, including the mysteries of Eleusis and the magical philosophy of Plato, Socrates, and other Greeks. He uncovers the origins of Gnosticism and the suppression and banishment of magic by the post-pagan, Christian emperors of Rome. Seligmann reviews the principles of alchemy, sharing famous transmutations and allegorical illustrations of the alchemical process and explores the Hermetica and its remarkable adepts. Investigating the Middle Ages, the author discusses the work of European magicians of the time, including Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Agrippa, Nostradamus, and Pico Della Mirandola. He studies the medieval practices of devil worship, witchcraft, and black magic, as well as the “Cabala” in both its Hebrew and Christian forms. He also examines the art of the Tarot and many lesser known divination techniques. He explores the development of secret societies, including Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, in the 17th century and the increase in occult publications and magical science in the 18th century. First published in 1948, this history of magic and the occult seeks to “mirror” the magical worldview throughout the ages. Beautifully illustrated with images from the author’s rare library, this collector’s edition features all of the artwork--more than 250 images--from the original 1948 edition.

The New Russian Book

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319507087
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Russian Book by : Birgitte Beck Pristed

Download or read book The New Russian Book written by Birgitte Beck Pristed and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in the transformation of Soviet print culture to a post-Soviet book market. It delivers a profound and critical exploration of Russian visual imaginary of classic, popular, and contemporary prose. Among all the carelessly bungled covers of mass-published post-Soviet series the study identifies gems from experimental designers. By taking a comparative approach to the clash of two formerly separate book cultures, the Western and the Soviet, that results both in a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow forms and in ideological re-interpretations of the literary works, this book contributes to opening an East-West dialogue between the fields of Russian studies, contemporary book and media history, art, design, and visual studies.

Paperbound Books in Print

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1256 pages
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Download or read book Paperbound Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eighteenth-century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder

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ISBN 13 : 0199689105
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder written by Sarah Tindal Kareem and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century British fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to--rather than antithetical to--the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder's chapters unfold its new account of British fiction's rise through surprising new readings of classic early novels-from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey--as well as bringing to attention lesser known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.

Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan

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Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884022053
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Russian Literature and the Classics

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9783718606054
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Russian Literature and the Classics by : Peter I. Barta

Download or read book Russian Literature and the Classics written by Peter I. Barta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.

Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662271X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium written by Sharla Hutchison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture. This collection of new essays covers 150 years of enduringly popular Gothic monsters who have shocked and horrified audiences in literature, film and comics. The contributors unearth forgotten monsters and reconsider familiar ones, examining the audience taboos and fears they embody.

Authoring the Self

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135875162
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Authoring the Self written by Scott Hess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.

A Tender Voyage

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804757546
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis A Tender Voyage by : Ping-chen Hsiung

Download or read book A Tender Voyage written by Ping-chen Hsiung and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhood—literary and philosophical—and the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and their evolution over time. The author moves on to the social environment of the child, including models of upbringing and expected behavior and the treatment of different kinds of children, including the rebellious and the "gentle" child. She examines the role of the mother, notably her close and complex relations with her sons, and the broader emotional world of children, their relationships with the adults around them, and the destructive power of death. The last section discusses concepts of childhood in China and the West. Throughout, the study keeps in view the issue of representation versus practice, the role of memory, and the importance of listening for what is not said.

Parody

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108693
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Parody by : Robert Chambers

Download or read book Parody written by Robert Chambers and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parody: The Art That Plays with Art explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. Parody is revealed as an über-technique, a principal source of innovation and invention in the arts. The technique is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions and the formation of unexpected and sometimes startling and revolutionary new configurations. Parodic art fashions a galaxy of contrasts, and from these stem an illusionistic sense of multiplicity and an array of divergent meanings and interpretive paths. This book, an extreme departure from existing analyses of parody, is nonetheless highly accessible and will be of major interest not only to scholars but to general readers and to professional writers as well. Parody: The Art That Plays with Art is particularly suited for readers interested in modernism, postmodernism, meta-art, criticism, satire, and irony.

To Boldly Go

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629315
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book To Boldly Go written by Nadine Farghaly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, Star Trek--arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time--turned 50. During that time the original series and its various offshoots have created some of the genre's most iconic characters and reiterated a vision of an egalitarian future where humans no longer discriminate against race, gender or sexuality. This collection of new essays provides a timely study of how well Star Trek has lived up to its own ideals of inclusivity and equality, and how well prepared it is to boldly go with everyone into the next half century.