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Author : Andromeda Jones
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709015666
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Hawk and the Nightingale written by Andromeda Jones and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Lee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473577411
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Nightingale written by Sam Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wondering and wonderful. The nature book of the year.' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL 'This lovely book is almost as thrilling as the bird's immortal song - balm for a troubled soul and a glimpse of paradise.' JOANNA LUMLEY ______________________________ Come to the forest, sit by the fireside and listen to intoxicating song, as Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. Every year, as darkness falls upon woodlands, the nightingale heralds the arrival of Spring. Throughout history, its sweet song has inspired musicians, writers and artists around the world, from Germany, France and Italy to Greece, Ukraine and Korea. Here, passionate conservationist, renowned musician and folk expert Sam Lee tells the story of the nightingale. This book reveals in beautiful detail the bird's song, habitat, characteristics and migration patterns, as well as the environmental issues that threaten its livelihood. From Greek mythology to John Keats, to Persian poetry and 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square', Lee delves into the various ways we have celebrated the nightingale through traditions, folklore, music, literature, from ancient history to the present day. The Nightingale is a unique and lyrical portrait of a famed yet elusive songbird. ______________________________ 'Sam Lee has brought the poetic magic that has long enchanted so many of his musical fans into the written word. Allow yourself to glimpse the world Sam sees, to be part of his love affair with the nightingale, and you will no doubt be delighted.' LILY COLE 'A wonderful book.' STEPHEN MOSS 'A magical marriage of the lyrical and practical: a book that makes us want to seek out the nightingale and then reveals how we can.' TRISTAN GOOLEY
Author : Katharine Margaret Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nightingale and the Hawk written by Katharine Margaret Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004118911
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book History of the Graeco-latin Fable written by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of the original Spanish, standard work on the fable, traces the history of the Graeco-Latin fable, investigates its origins, reconstructs lost collections from the Hellenistic Age and establishes relationships between the Imperial Age andGreek and Latin fables.
Author : Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195353579
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book God and the Land : The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil written by Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
Author : Jane Beal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131719425X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Signifying Power of Pearl written by Jane Beal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.
Author : Jenny Strauss Clay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139440586
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Hesiod's Cosmos written by Jenny Strauss Clay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
Author : Jennifer Allis Provost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781088277621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (776 download)
Download or read book The Hawk and the Nightingale written by Jennifer Allis Provost and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalie Vyrdolak has lived a long, interesting life. Born with a voice so enchanting she was dubbed The Nightingale, her village elders handed her off to a warlord to pay their annual protection tithe. Amalie's beautiful voice and sharp mind quickly made her the warlord's favorite toy. When she led a revolt and ousted him as the clan's leader, she went from his lover to his archenemy. But that was a long time ago, and now Amalie lives a quiet life running her crystal shop in Prague's Old Town, and occasionally singing for the tourists. Then Hawk swept into town, wearing his black cape and only doing business at night, and everything changed. Hawk knows he makes an impression, and he likes it that way. He didn't build his business from the ground up by staying quiet or playing by the rules, and as a result he owns a dozen successful nightclubs across Europe. Nightclubs were really the best option for him, since he conducted nearly all of his business after sunset, and made a point of being back in his bed before sunrise. Really, it was a wonder one of those new age paranormal groups hadn't caught on to his exploits, and started a podcast about him. Then again, Hawk would rather like a podcast dedicated to his adventures. When Hawk opened his thirteenth club, the Moravian Ballroom, he knew there was a crystal shop next door. What he hadn't expected was for the shop's owner, a woman with the face of a goddess and the voice of an angel, to pierce his heart in a way no one ever had before, so much so that when Amalie's ex-lover, a brute called Marek, came to town intent on destroying their newfound happiness, Hawk swears to destroy him instead. The Hawk and the Nightingale is a spicy paranormal romance featuring vampires, old grudges, and red hot revenge.
Author : Helen Van Noorden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194035
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Playing Hesiod written by Helen Van Noorden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new description of the significance of Hesiod's 'myth of the races' for ancient Greek and Roman authors, showing how the most detailed responses to this story go far beyond nostalgia for a lost 'Golden' age or hope of its return. Through a series of close readings, it argues that key authors from Plato to Juvenal rewrite the story to reconstruct 'Hesiod' more broadly as predecessor in forming their own intellectual and rhetorical projects; disciplines such as philosophy, didactic poetry and satire all engage in implicit questions about 'Hesiodic' teaching. The first chapter introduces key issues; the second re-evaluates the account in Hesiod's Works and Days. A major chapter outlines Plato's use of Hesiod through close study of the Protagoras, Republic and Statesman. Subsequent chapters focus on Aratus' Phaenomena and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the final chapter, on the Octavia attributed to Seneca and Juvenal's sixth Satire, broadens ideas of Hesiod's reception in Rome.
Author : Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004350888
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book History of the Graeco-Latin Fable written by Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of the History of the Graeco-Latin Fable offers a complete inventory and documentation of the Classical fable tradition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The original Spanish edition (1987) has been considerably enlarged with numerous supplementary references and less than 350 new fables. The present edition uniquely refers to fables in more than 20 different languages, not only in Greek and Latin, but also in other Oriental and Western languages such as Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Circassian, Slavonian, Albanian, Spanish, Italian, English, French, German, and Dutch, thus paving the way for studies of comparative literature. The book is conveniently concluded with elaborate indexes of fable characters, passages included, and numeration systems of other contributions in the field.
Author : Gert-Jan van Dijk
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004330305
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Αἶνοι, Λόγοι, Μῦθοι written by Gert-Jan van Dijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to focus on the numerous ancient Greek fables occurring outside (and predating) the extant fable collections. Divided into three parts, its core is an intertextual analysis of the functions of fables and their allusions. Here the author covers many different authors and a variety of genres in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greek Literature, ranging from lyric to historiography, from Aristotle to Hesiod and from Agamemnon to Zopyrus. This analysis is based on a study of both modern and ancient fable theory - the latter having hitherto never been studied in toto, and incorporating the Graeco-Roman terminology of the genre. The book's third part is a collection of all texts (and contexts) studied, which greatly facilitates cross-referencing.
Author : Lilah Grace Canevaro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198729545
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Hesiod's Works and Days written by Lilah Grace Canevaro and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hesiod's 'Works and Days' was often performed in its entirety, but was also relentlessly excerpted, quoted, and reapplied. This volume situates the poem within these two modes of reading and argues that the text itself, through Hesiod's complex mechanism of rendering elements detachable whilst tethering them to their context for the purposes of the poem, sustains both treatments.
Author : Mark G. Boyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498237932
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book An Abecedarian of Animal Spirit Guides written by Mark G. Boyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every person has owned a pet at one time or another in life or known someone who has. In all world religions, animals serve as spirit guides; there is spirituality to animal and human dialogue. Animals have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of creatures, which serve as spirit guides in all world religions and help humans experience the divine. The author explores animal spirit guides in the Bible, The Quran, The Dhammapada, The Rig Veda, The Analects of Confucius, stories from Aesop and Grimm, and much more. In these pages you can explore bears and bees, eagles and elephants, ravens and roosters, tadpoles and turtles, and many more. For each of the thirty-two entries, the author presents a text identifying the animal spirit guide, a reflective study, a question for journaling or personal meditation, and a concluding prayer. The spiritual life can be nourished in many ways; in this book it is enhanced by animal spirit guides.
Author : Nicholas de Guildford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719005138
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Owl and the Nightingale written by Nicholas de Guildford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Buster Benson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525540105
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Why Are We Yelling? written by Buster Benson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address? Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framework that frees you from the trap of unproductive conflict and pointless arguing forever. If the threat of raised voices, emotional outbursts, and public discord makes you want to hide under the conference room table, you're not alone. Conflict, or the fear of it, can be exhausting. But as this powerful book argues, conflict doesn't have to be unpleasant. In fact, properly channeled, conflict can be the most valuable tool we have at our disposal for deepening relationships, solving problems, and coming up with new ideas. As the mastermind behind some of the highest-performing teams at Amazon, Twitter, and Slack, Buster Benson spent decades facilitating hard conversations in stressful environments. In this book, Buster reveals the psychological underpinnings of awkward, unproductive conflict and the critical habits anyone can learn to avoid it. Armed with a deeper understanding of how arguments, you'll be able to: Remain confident when you're put on the spot Diffuse tense moments with a few strategic questions Facilitate creative solutions even when your team has radically different perspectives Why Are We Yelling will shatter your assumptions about what makes arguments productive. You'll find yourself having fewer repetitive, predictable fights once you're empowered to identify your biases, listen with an open mind, and communicate well.
Author : Albert Welles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Fables written by Albert Welles and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Hauser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201072
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book How Women Became Poets written by Emily Hauser and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book that shows how ancient poets broke the silence of literary gender norms to express their own voices, and thus illuminating long neglected discussions of gender in the ancient world. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser provides a startling new history of classical literature that redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. By bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers gendered lens to issues of voice and identity in classical literature and poetry. What emerges from this is a new literary history that reframes the authors of classical literature as both enforcing and exploring gender, and shows for the first time how women broke the silence of gender norms around literary production to express their own voices. By revisiting traditional assumptions about the canon of Greek literature, and highlighting the articulated construction of masculinity in Greek poetic texts, the book places ancient women poets back onto center stage as principal actors in the drama of the debate around what it means to create poetry. Much of the importance of this work is adding in female authors to the history of Greek literature, both well-known and marginal, while demonstrating how the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender"--
