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Book Synopsis Only Mortals Can be Heroes by : David J. Weaver
Download or read book Only Mortals Can be Heroes written by David J. Weaver and published by Cambria Creations, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Mortals Can Be Heroes is a true story about a young boy, Adam Weaver, who experiences the pleasures and pains of the drug culture. Adam started drugging at the age of 12 because he wanted to fit in with his peers. After marijuana and beer came Ritalin, oxycontin, ecstasy, LSD, uppers, downers, cocaine, heroin, and everything in between. Adam's story is punctuated with a cocaine overdose when he was 16 and a heroin overdose a few years later. The book winds its way around themes of low self-esteem, the insecurity of being adopted, the power of addiction, support of family when none should be expected, incidents of tough love, life on the street, beatings by drug dealers, treatment, relapse, more treatment, and at last hope but no guarantees. Only Mortals Can Be Heroes transforms the reader by standing him in Adam's shoes and inviting him to wrap his arms around Adam to love and protect him.
Book Synopsis The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature by : David Hopkins
Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by David Hopkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present volume [3] is the first to appear of the five that will comprise The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (henceforth OHCREL). Each volume of OHCREL will have its own editor or team of editors"--Preface.
Book Synopsis Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle by : Rick Barba
Download or read book Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle written by Rick Barba and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Chryse, the Golden Isle! The king of the gods himself, Zeus, presents you with this indispensable travel guide to the ancient Greek island from Ubisoft’s Immortals Fenyx Rising video game. Follow the king of the gods on an expedition across the different regions of the dazzling island of Chryse: whether strolling through the lush painted gardens of the goddess Aphrodite, battling inside Ares’s fortress, or planning a boat trip across the river Styx, this full-color travel guide will keep you alive and thriving. In this glorious hardcover, readers will discover all about each region’s landmarks, secrets and legendary myths and will enjoy Zeus’s hot goss on the rest of the pantheon! Immortals Fenyx Rising: A Traveler's Guide to the Golden Isle is a must have for any fan of Immortals Fenyx Rising and Greek mythology.
Download or read book My old friend written by Xiao Ding and published by Devneybooks. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Shen Congwen once said:Novels should be written "close to the characters",This is an empirical statement, simple .However, to control, use. If it is obvious and effective, it is not something that ordinary people can say. I will change it to, ' stare"Written by others", the meaning is similar to Mr., butseems to be a little more cruel. This is determined by my creative personality. RecentlyBeijing People's Art Theater rehearses my play "Our Jing Ke". iMany people have asked me: What is this play about? "I said: With others .Writing about people’s growth and enlightenment,Writing about people’s pursuit of the realm of “advantage”. Frompeople become “advantages”, as the generations continue to do. Eating mulberry leaves and excreting excrement • MostFinal connectionAlmost infinitely transparent, eating mulberry leaves and listening to criticism. Expelling excrement is my criticism;
Book Synopsis Tragic Views of the Human Condition by : Lourens Minnema
Download or read book Tragic Views of the Human Condition written by Lourens Minnema and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?
Download or read book Windmaster's Bane written by Tom Deitz and published by Ingalls Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sullivan, a Georgia teenager, enjoys reading Irish myth. When he develops Second Sight, however, the reality of the Faerie world proves as dangerous as it is fantastic. When David'ss brother is stolen and his uncle felled by Faery magic, David enlist
Book Synopsis Heroes Masked and Mythic by : Christopher Wood
Download or read book Heroes Masked and Mythic written by Christopher Wood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles, Achilles and Perseus have influenced Western art and literature for centuries, and today are reinvented in the modern superhero. What does Iron Man have to do with the Homeric hero Odysseus? How does the African warrior Memnon compare with Marvel's Black Panther? Do DC's Wonder Woman and Xena the Warrior Princess reflect the tradition of Amazon women such as Penthesileia? How does the modern superhero's journey echo that of the epic warrior? With fresh insight into ancient Greek texts and historical art, this book examines modern superhero archetypes and iconography in comics and film as the crystallization of the hero's journey in the modern imagination.
Book Synopsis Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology by : Adrian Kelly
Download or read book Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology written by Adrian Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants.
Book Synopsis The Hero in Transition by : Ray Broadus Browne
Download or read book The Hero in Transition written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of society's heroes during any time period will reveal the personnel deemed worthy of being emulated at that particular time by that particular society. There will be many old and time-tested figures, sometimes with new faces and new profiles; there will also be a mix of new faces. Thus the hero--like history itself--is constantly in transition, and both the hero and the transition are fundamental to the study of a culture. These essays turn the pantheon of heroes around before our eyes and reveal the many complicated aspects of hero worship.
Book Synopsis Rationality and Religious Experience by : Henry Rosemont
Download or read book Rationality and Religious Experience written by Henry Rosemont and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Rosemont puts forth two arguements in this volume: that Western science and education are products of an Abrahamic world view and would not have arisen in a non-Abrahamic religious environment such as India or China; and that all religions, regardless of tradition, enhance our non-material lives by providing direction towards a religious experience, a sense of fully belonging.
Book Synopsis Weird Tales #325 by : Darrell Schweitzer
Download or read book Weird Tales #325 written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales #325 (Fall 2001) features "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth," by Darrell Schweitzer; "The Gravedigger's Apprentice," by Alvin Helms; "Our Temporary Supervisor," by Thomas Ligotti; "Where All Things Perish," by Tanith Lee; "The Wizard of Ashes and Rain," by David Sandner, and more.
Book Synopsis The Biblical Hero by : Elliott Rabin
Download or read book The Biblical Hero written by Elliott Rabin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Bible in an original way--comparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literature--Elliott Rabin addresses a core biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Focusing on the lives of six major biblical characters--Moses, Samson, David, Esther, Abraham, and Jacob--Rabin examines their resemblance to hero types found in (and perhaps drawn from) other literatures and analyzes why the Bible depicts its heroes less gloriously than do the texts of other cultures: * Moses founds the nation of Israel--and is short-tempered and weak-armed. * Samson, arrogant and unhinged, can kill a thousand enemies with his bare hands. * David establishes a centralized, unified, triumphal government--through pretense and self-deception. * Esther saves her people but marries a murderous, misogynist king. * Abraham's relationships are wracked with tension. * Jacob fathers twelve tribes--and wins his inheritance through deceit. In the end, is God the real hero? Or is God too removed from human constraints to even be called a "hero"? Ultimately, Rabin excavates how the Bible's unique perspective on heroism can address our own deep-seated need for human-scale heroes.
Book Synopsis Why Capitalism Survives Crises by : Paul Zarembka
Download or read book Why Capitalism Survives Crises written by Paul Zarembka and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses attention on why capitalism survives crises by developing the argument that it has moved on from its 19th century embodiment to include a class of shock absorbers. This book tells how this class, consisting of fractionalised individuals, absorbs the massive surpluses of produced commodities.
Download or read book The Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wounded Hero written by Tamara Neal and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of non-fatal injury and bloodspill in Homer's Iliad and demonstrates the crucial significance of these motifs in the epic. They are shown to be fundamental to defining heroic status and a powerful means for developing the narrative and thematic structures of the poem. The study offers a nuanced definition of the nature of mortality and immortality and shows how the motifs of injury and bloodspill explicate the plot of the poem and its ethical values. This work is the first to examine these motifs in a systematic and comprehensive investigation. Focusing exclusively on the Iliad, the book sheds new light on ideals of heroic conduct.
Download or read book The Mortal Hero written by Seth L. Schein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface:This book is addressed mainly to non-specialist readers who do not know Greek and who read, study, or teach the Iliad in translation; it also is meant for classical scholars whose professional specialization has prevented them from keeping abreast of recent work on Homer. It is grounded in technical scholarship, to which it constantly referes and is intended to contribute, and I hope that even Homeric specialists will find ideas and interpretations to interest them. I have tried to present clearly what seem to me the most valuable results of modern research and criticism of the Iliad while setting forth my own views. My goal has been to interpret the poem as much as possible on its own mythological, religious, ethical, and artistic terms. The topics and problems I focus on are those that have arisen most often and most insistently when I have thought the poem, in translation and in the original, as I have done every year since 1968. This book is a literary study of the Iliad. I have not discussed historical, archaeologoical, or even linguistic questions except where they are directly relevant to literary interpretation. Throughout I have emphasized what is thematically, ethically, and artistically distinctive in the Iliad in contrast to the conventions of the poetic tradition of which it is an end product.
