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Book Synopsis Heroic Legends of the North by : Edward R. Haymes
Download or read book Heroic Legends of the North written by Edward R. Haymes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire to the medieval texts that make them known to us. Many of the medieval texts have never been translated into English or even modern German. A synopsis of each work is therefore included so that the reader can form an idea of the content of the works in question. The book takes a text-oriented approach. The book includes a chronological chart which puts most of the texts and literary works discussed in a European and world context.
Book Synopsis The Heroic Legends of Denmark by : Axel Olrik
Download or read book The Heroic Legends of Denmark written by Axel Olrik and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heroic Legends of Ireland by : Translated by A.H. Leary
Download or read book Heroic Legends of Ireland written by Translated by A.H. Leary and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: Black Starlight by : John C. Hocking
Download or read book The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: Black Starlight written by John C. Hocking and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today's top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery. Seeking to avoid the Stygian border guard and cross the River Styx, Conan, the sorceress Zelandra, her scribe Neesa, and bodyguard Heng Shih discover a town that seems to be deserted. To preserve his own life, the town's lord had bargained with a demon that still lurks there. It wants Zelandra's cache of Emerald Lotus and will kill anyone who tries to stop it. Conan and his allies must defeat the demon and its minions—human and inhuman—in order to survive. Originally published as a twelve-part serial in Marvel's Conan the Barbarian comic book (2019-2020), this is a direct sequel to CONAN AND THE EMERALD LOTUS, re-released this month in the new volume CONAN IN THE CITY OF THE DEAD.
Book Synopsis Heroic Song and Heroic Legend by : Jan de Vries
Download or read book Heroic Song and Heroic Legend written by Jan de Vries and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anglo-Saxon verse charms, maxims & heroic legends by : Louis Jerome Rodrigues
Download or read book Anglo-Saxon verse charms, maxims & heroic legends written by Louis Jerome Rodrigues and published by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troy written by Si Sheppard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, it launched the greatest war of the mythic age of Greece. Heroes and gods assembled on both sides, as the combined armies of Greece launched a siege that would last for ten years. During that time, famous heroes, such as Achilles, Ajax, and Hector, would find glory on the battlefield, before being cut down. Others, such as Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Aeneas, would survive the war, only to face even greater challenges afterwards. Thanks to the Iliad of Homer, and numerous other ancient sources, the story of the siege of Troy has survived over 3,000 years. In this new book in the Myths and Legends series, Professor Si Sheppard draws together all of these ancient writings to tell the complete story of the Trojan war, from the flight of the “face that launched a thousand ships” to the great wooden horse that brought the city to bloody ruin.
Book Synopsis The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by : William Hansen
Download or read book The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths written by William Hansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Download or read book Don Juan Legend written by Otto Rank and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1924, this study of the Don Juan legend is a powerful interpretation of one of the most popular themes in Western culture. Also valuable for the insights it offers into Rank's thought immediately before his break with Freud, the book has not been available in English until now. Rank's study draws on psychoanalysis, literature, history, and anthropology to suggest some psychological mechanisms that operate both within the principal characters of the legend and within the audience or reader. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Revisiting the Poetic Edda by : Paul Acker
Download or read book Revisiting the Poetic Edda written by Paul Acker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing alive the dramatic poems of Old Norse heroic legend, this new collection offers accessible, ground-breaking and inspiring essays which introduce and analyse the exciting legends of the two doomed Helgis and their valkyrie lovers; the dragon-slayer Sigurðr; Brynhildr the implacable shield-maiden; tragic Guðrún and her children; Attila the Hun (from a Norse perspective!); and greedy King Fróði, whose name lives on in Tolkien’s Frodo. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the poems for students, taking a number of fresh, theoretically-sophisticated and productive approaches to the poetry and its characters. Contributors bring to bear insights generated by comparative study, speech act and feminist theory, queer theory and psychoanalytic theory (among others) to raise new, probing questions about the heroic poetry and its reception. Each essay is accompanied by up-to-date lists of further reading and a contextualisation of the poems or texts discussed in critical history. Drawing on the latest international studies of the poems in their manuscript context, and written by experts in their individual fields, engaging with the texts in their original language and context, but presented with full translations, this companion volume to The Poetic Edda: Essays on Old Norse Mythology (Routledge, 2002) is accessible to students and illuminating for experts. Essays also examine the afterlife of the heroic poems in Norse legendary saga, late medieval Icelandic poetry, the nineteenth-century operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the recently published (posthumous) poem by Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
Book Synopsis Legends of the Kings of Akkade by : Joan Goodnick Westenholz
Download or read book Legends of the Kings of Akkade written by Joan Goodnick Westenholz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1997-06-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most impressive legacy of the Dynasty of Akkade (ca. 2310-2160 B.C.E.) was the widespread, popular legends of its kings. Dr. Westenholz offers an annotated edition of all the known legends of the Akkadian kings, with transliteration, translation, and commentary. Of particular interest to biblical scholars is the inclusion of “The Birth Legend of Sargon,” which is often compared to Moses in Exodus.
Download or read book Legend and Belief written by Linda Dégh and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are communicated not only orally, face to face, but also in the press, on radio and television, on countless Web sites, and by e-mail, perpetuating new waves of the "culture of fear.""--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book 《玛纳斯》论：英文 written by 郎樱著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 丛书共5卷，先后入选“十三五”国家重点图书出版物出版规划项目、2017年国家出版基金项目。《〈玛纳斯〉论》是我国著名《玛纳斯》研究专家郎樱教授的研究专著。全书分为上中下三篇，上篇主要论述史诗的特点、流传变异情况及其在柯尔克孜族人们精神生活中的地位等。中篇主要讨论史诗中的人物形象并通过对人物和其情节内容的分析，对史诗中所反映的神话以及柯尔克孜族民间叙事诗、民歌等民间文学与史诗的关系提出了有价值的观点。下篇主要是运用比较文化学、比较文学的理论，总结出《玛纳斯》史诗的特点以及同世界各类史诗的异同。
Book Synopsis Heroes of Myths and Legends by : David West
Download or read book Heroes of Myths and Legends written by David West and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous heroes from ancient myths are put to the test in this thrilling volume. Heroic figures, from Odysseus to Mulan, duke it out, while fascinating historical information is revealed. This fact-filled book explores the magical stories associated with each character, including their origins and greatest mythical feat. Exciting text and enthralling illustrations keep young readers interested.
Book Synopsis The Fairy Tale by : Steven Swann Jones
Download or read book The Fairy Tale written by Steven Swann Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the student with a stunning, lucid overview of the genre and a solid understanding of its structure.
Download or read book Women Warriors written by Marianna Mayer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-09-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From days of old, they have intrigued people all over the world: brave, defiant warrior women who stir imaginations, rouse passions, and often inspire thousands of followers. These fierce and fearless spirits are goddesses, queens, and peasants; they are children, young women, and adults in the winter of their years. From the story of Britain's proud queen Boadicea to that of the Sioux warrior Winyan Ohitika, Marianna Mayer re-creates twelve thrilling tales of war and bravery, bitterness and triumph. Twenty-four full-color illustrations and a map, bibliography, and annotated index are included in this striking anthology for all ages.
Book Synopsis Medieval Oral Literature by : Karl Reichl
Download or read book Medieval Oral Literature written by Karl Reichl and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.
