The Legacy of Lethe
The Legacy of Lethe

Author: Eric P. Caillibot

Publisher: Unrealism Books

Published: 2022-02-12

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 199923572X

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The past is forgotten, but not gone. A magical empire of grey-skinned giants erupts into civil war as Verletzt, a bold idealist, challenges the stagnant doctrine of his rulers. His iconoclast movement struggles desperately against the brutal theocrats to win freedom and lead his people to a glorious destiny. Millennia later, Kayla Freeland’s prophetic sight shows her an approaching worldwide apocalypse. The devastating threat is somehow connected to an ancient weapon, hidden elemental forces and Vertletzt’s long-vanished civilization. Racing against time, she assembles an expedition to delve into the past and solve the riddle of her visions before it is too late. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Legacy of Lethe is both sequel and prequel to “The Conquest of Kiynan” but can be read as a stand-alone book. The story is split across multiple viewpoint characters in two timelines, forced to navigate conflict, heartbreak, coming of age and magic. The threads are gradually woven together, leading to a single, thrilling conclusion.

Lethe's Law
Lethe's Law

Author: Emilios Christodoulidis

Publisher: Hart Publishing

Published: 2001-05-21

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1841131091

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Comparing the law's efforts to deal with the past, these 12 essays address matters of criminal responsibility, amnesty, time, memory, and reconciliation. The relationships between justice, the law, and politics are explored with concern to recent changes in the nature and responsibilities of each. Attention is given to the experiences of Eastern Europe, Germany, South Africa, Israel, and Australia. Contributors include legal scholars, philosophers, and social scientists from Europe, Israel, South Africa, Canada, and Australia. The book is distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.

The Conquest of Kiynan
The Conquest of Kiynan

Author: Eric P. Caillibot

Publisher: Unrealism Books

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1999235703

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★★★★★ “Impossible to put down… Caillibot kick starts The Kiynan Chronicles series with this fascinating concoction of epic fantasy, mystery, magic, and action.” - The Prairies Book Review ★★★★★ “The book follows multiple point-of-view characters through an unlikely thread that weaves them together in a patchwork of royalty, loyalty, war, and magic. [...] The Conquest of Kiynan is an incredibly ambitious book” - Readers’ Favorite ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When the entire world erupts into war, can anyone triumph? An ancient Conjurer escapes from his imprisonment in the spirit world. Bent on revenge, he raises an army of demons crafted from stolen flesh and bones. An uneasy alliance of magicians is formed to oppose him, but they soon realise that even with their might combined, it will not be enough to survive the coming storm. In desperation, they seek help from distant, long-alienated kin. Among them is Kayla Freeland, a young woman who may be the key to unlocking the long-forgotten magic of the fallen House Calm, perhaps the only means of stopping the Conjurer and his endless minions. Far to the West, a barbarian High King launches an all-out invasion. Old rivalries are reignited and alliances tested as nobles and commoners alike are thrown into chaos by the sudden aggression. A young, naïve King and a conscripted thief find themselves forced to work together to survive. As kingdoms fall, the unlikely heroes must overcome fear, loss and remorse to unite fragmented armies and feuding magicians against their merciless enemies, or face subjugation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Conquest of Kiynan is the first instalment of an epic, high fantasy series. The story is split across multiple viewpoint characters, forced to navigate conflict, coming of age, clashing cultures and magic. The threads are gradually woven together, leading to a single, thrilling conclusion.

The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens
The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens

Author: Peter Cook

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-08-29

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 3319967916

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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to express his responses to the exponential growth of post-revolutionary industrial, technological culture and its effects on personal life and relationships. In this close study of Dickensian Romanticism, Cook demonstrates the enduring relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.

Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare
Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare

Author: William E. Engel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1317168046

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Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly shopworn conventions such as memento mori conceits, echo poems, and the staging of deus ex machina. The study, grounded in the philosophy of symbolic forms (following Ernst Cassirer), will be a valuable resource for readers interested in intellectual history and symbol theory, classical mythology and Renaissance iconography. Chiastic Designs affords a glimpse into the transformative power of allegory during the English Renaissance by addressing patterns that were part and parcel of early modern "mnemonic culture."

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Author: Christopher Ivic

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1134388322

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This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.

Postwar Italian Art History Today
Postwar Italian Art History Today

Author: Sharon Hecker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1501330071

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Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York – The Knot – this volume presents innovative case studies and emphasizes new methodologies deployed in the study of postwar Italian art as a means to evaluate the current state of the field. Included are fifteen essays that each examine, from a different viewpoint, the issues, concerns, and questions driving postwar Italian art history. The editors and contributors call for a systematic reconsideration of the artistic origins of postwar Italian art, the terminology that is used to describe the work produced, and key personalities and institutions that promoted and supported the development and marketing of this art in Italy and abroad.

Challenging a Fictitious Neutrality
Challenging a Fictitious Neutrality

Author: Luce Irigaray

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3030937291

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Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality? For some urgent reasons. The neuter is generally considered to be the condition of objectivity. However, historically, this is asserted by a subject which is masculine and not neuter. Claiming that truth and the way of reaching it are and must be in the neuter amounts to a misuse of power and a falsification of the real. Living beings are not naturally neuter; they are sexuate somehow or other. Subjecting them to the neuter as a condition of their objective status transforms living beings into cultural products deprived of their own origin and dynamism, and builds a world in which the development and the sharing of life are impossible. In this book, four contributors explore this basic mistake of our culture starting from the work of Heidegger and his insistence on maintaining that our being in the world - our Dasein - must be in the neuter. They question the nature of the truth which is then at stake and the political mistakes that it can cause. It is not here a question of sexuality strictly speaking nor of sexual choice. The concern of the two men and the two women who participate in this volume is with the sexuate determination of all living beings. Is not Heidegger’s Dasein, as neutered and supposedly neutral, a kind of technical device which prevents living beings from entering into presence? If so, where might that ultimately lead?

The Legacy of Hades
The Legacy of Hades

Author: Rhonda Grant Boles

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1469151952

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For her one hundredth birthday, Makaria the daughter of Hades, also known as the Goddess of Blessed Death, expresses a desire to leave her home in the Underworld in an effort to research mortal life on the surface. Upon enrolling at the prestigious Princeton University, she befriends the grandson to the Duke of Wellington, Alexander Beckham III and his cousin Nicolette, her college roommate. Alex has an instant attraction to Makaria, but she has her eyes set on a bad boy rocker named Mike. Through a series of unfortunate events, Alex, Nicolette and Makaria find it nearly impossible to maintain their family secrets. What will Makarias parents think of her new found mortal love? What will happen when Alex, Nicolette, Makaria and Mike learn the truth of each others LEGACY?