The Stone Thrower
The Stone Thrower

Author: Jael Ealey Richardson

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Published: 2016-05-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1554987539

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The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. Chuck Ealey grew up poor in a racially segregated community that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks, but his mother assured him that he wouldn’t stay in Portsmouth forever. Education was the way out, and a football scholarship was the way to pay for that education. So despite the racist taunts he faced at all the games he played in high school, Chuck maintained a remarkable level of dedication and determination. And when discrimination followed him to university and beyond, Chuck Ealey remained undefeated. This inspirational story is told by Chuck Ealey’s daughter, author and educator Jael Richardson, with striking and powerful illustrations by award-winning illustrator Matt James.

Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

Author: Victoria Rimell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-28

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1139436252

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Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.

The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women

Author: Richard Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521836845

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This collection of essays offers an exploration of the meaning and significance of the Catalogue of Women, attributed to Hesiod.

Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals
Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals

Author: Simon Hornblower

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 0199296723

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Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about that literature, and about the social and physical context for which it was written. The editors assembled an internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original 2002 seminar series held in London, and thesepapers form the backbone of the book. But to ensure coherence and comprehensive coverage, they have commissioned three further papers, and have themselves written a long thematic Introduction. The result is a stellar team of authors, and a book which looks at an important literary phenomenon inlight of the latest archaeological and sociological insights, as well as evaluating the poetry both as poetry and as a performance genre with distinctive characteristics.

Begging Questions
Begging Questions

Author: Seán Virgo

Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781550960778

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Focusing on the universe of beauty and dreams with an intensity that delves into self-recognition, these stories written over the last 15 years engage the reader with questions about our public and private lives. The stories touch on questions of identity and belief, the phantoms of memory, and the oppositions of beauty to experiences. Told in a language of brilliant power, these tales enable the reader with their enigmatic and dreamlike quality.

Far from Nothing
Far from Nothing

Author: Zoltán Böszörményi

Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781550960556

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Ripe with love, money, and power, the story of 35-year-old Rudolf--set in a fast-paced, urban environment--begs the question Do we only think we exist? Rudolf and his wife work day and night hoping for a better life--he is a philosophy graduate student and the manager of a car dealership. He also keeps up a heart-wrenching relationship with the chic Wanda. Then there is Nina, who studies logic but is secretly a prostitute, and Alfred, owner of a car-leasing company, seemingly upright, but actually an embezzler. Each character conceals something. Be it in Hungary or North America, the craving for existential clarity remains strong.