Amanti's Chest
Amanti's Chest

Author: Lyndell King

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1456732722

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If you see a ghost, keep it away from the people you love the most. Dr. Panola Hartman has finally done it! With the help of a supercomputer, and thru dangerous experiments on a mysterious chest, he captures a ghost named Amanti, who can use the chest to travel though space and time. Hartman realizes that this chest might be used to save his wife, who is dying from a brain tumor. But when he secretly removes the chest from the lab to save her, his plan backfires, and as a result, his wife dies. After her death, Hartman develops a deep resentment for his powerful employer, The Syndicate. Because of his experiments, he has lost the whereabouts of Amanti and the chest, but eventually the chest turns up at a yard sale! A young man named Camden Hill buys the chest unaware of what lies within. The ghostly image of Amanti begins to appear to Camden, who she has found favor in. This comes just in time as he is actually also being hunted by gangsters in connection to a murder. Camden absorbs Amanti's energy and is protected by ghosts who use his body as a portal. The ghosts are his slain enemies and are powerful! Hartman meanwhile has continued to search for the chest and Camden and his girlfriend Lenora Pleasant must now fight for their lives. In an effort to escape from the Syndicate, Hartman has created a deadly chain reaction by causing a nuclear meltdown! Can Camden protect the woman he loves, and stop Dr. Hartman from setting off unforeseen consequences of tampering with Amanti's Chest?

The Art of Allusion
The Art of Allusion

Author: Sonja Drimmer

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0812250494

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At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture. The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority. Sonja Drimmer traces how, just as the poets embraced intertexuality as a means of invention, so did illuminators devise new images through referential techniques—assembling, adapting, and combining images from a range of sources in order to answer the need for a new body of pictorial matter. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, twenty-seven of them in color, The Art of Allusion is the first book devoted to the emergence of England's literary canon as a visual as well as a linguistic event.

John Gower in England and Iberia
John Gower in England and Iberia

Author: Ana Sáez-Hidalgo

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 184384320X

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John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts; of the ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing; and speculate on possible providers of the Confessio to Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal. Further chapters broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at Gower's use of Virgilian/Dantean models; classical gestures in the Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of "the good" in the Confessio; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and Iberia; reading the Confessio through the lens of gift exchange; literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain Chartier as international initiators of a new "public poetry"; and the modern sales history of manuscript and early printed copies of the Confessio, and what it reveals about literary trends. Ana S ez Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languages and chair of the department at the University of West Florida. Contributors: Mar a Bull n-Fern ndez, David R. Carlson, Si n Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Vi la de Faria, Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galv n, Marta Mar a Guti rrez Rodr guez, Mauricio Herrero Jim nez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto L zaro, Mar a Luisa L pez-Vidriero Abell , Matthew McCabe, Alastair J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop Wetherbee

Amanti’s Poetry Monopoly Game Book
Amanti’s Poetry Monopoly Game Book

Author: Hacima Amanti Lisaya-Kelley

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-05-18

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1532048963

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This book is a poetry game book of monopoly. It is designed to play a game with at least two or more people, but you will have to purchase the dice and create/buy game pieces to move along the game board. It is easier to also purchase more than one book for the game to go faster compared to everyone sharing just one book. You would roll the dice, then move to the property that you count to, then read the poem of that property you landed on, and then discuss how you feel the poem fits you previously or currently. Or you may want to discuss your likes about the poem. And then the next person will roll the dice and go along the board and etc.

Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton
Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton

Author: Patricia Phillippy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1108422985

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A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

The Spoiler
The Spoiler

Author: Domenic Stansberry

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-06-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1504012003

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An Edgar Award finalist in the year it was published, the reputation of this novel has only increased over the years, and it is now regarded by many as one of the best sports mysteries ever written, and one of the best books about baseball. It tells the story of Frank Lofton, an itinerant reporter obsessed with a minor league team in a Massachusetts mill town. The town is plagued by arson, and with the burning city as a backdrop, Lofton follows his obsession, leading him from the mysterious death of a struggling ballplayer, to the owner’s beautiful mistress, into an underworld of corruption and deceit.