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Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1995-06-23
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0486284654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK36 splendid illustrations, accompanied by quotes from Tennyson's poem, dramatically recapture the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the tale of the fair Elaine, and more.
Author: Theocritus
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Aberth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1135257264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries. Historians increasingly feel the need to weigh in on popular depictions of the past, since so much of the public's knowledge of history comes from popular mediums. Aberth dissects how each film interpreted the period, offering estimations of the historical accuracy of the works and demonstrating how they project their own contemporary era's obsessions and fears onto the past.
Author: Theocritus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780198152903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC), the inventor of "bucolic" or "pastoral" poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions that antiquity bequeathed to Western literature.
Author: Countess di Brazzà
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theocritus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-02-04
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521574204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.
Author: Franco Ricci
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0889206341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Melissa L. Caldwell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0520262840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Anyone who has spent time in Russia knows the importance of 'going to the dacha.' In this ethnography Melissa Caldwell reveals the mystique of rural life by exploring the social nature of gardening and making food, and Russian relationships to the land. It's truly an innovative study!"--Catherine Wanner, author of Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism "In this engaging ethnography, Melissa Caldwell brilliantly demonstrates what is peculiarly Russian about the dacha, long an object of literary and nostalgic imagining, while simultaneously situating the 'vacation cottage' within larger histories of leisure, consumption, home, and post-socialist transition. A must-read for scholars of Russia or tourism."--Pamela Ballinger, author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans
