In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice PDF full book. Access full book title In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice by Daniel Ogden. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Daniel Ogden Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's Philopseudes or Lover of Lies (c. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, of this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and this conveys the flavour of the rest. In other tales a plague of snakes is blasted with a miraculous scorching breath, a woman is drawn to her admirer by an animated cupid doll, and a haunted house is cleansed of its monstrous ghost. The Philopseudes stands at the intersection of three of the liveliest fields in the study of antiquity: magic, traditional narratives, and the Lucianic oeuvre itself. Ogden's cross-fertilising expertise in all three of these fields enables him to build sophisticated analyses for each of the tales and to place them sensitively in their historical, cultural and literary contexts. Among the themes of the work are Lucian's methods of adapting motifs from traditional narratives, and the text's overlooked Cynic voice.
Author: Daniel Ogden Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's Philopseudes or Lover of Lies (c. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, of this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and this conveys the flavour of the rest. In other tales a plague of snakes is blasted with a miraculous scorching breath, a woman is drawn to her admirer by an animated cupid doll, and a haunted house is cleansed of its monstrous ghost. The Philopseudes stands at the intersection of three of the liveliest fields in the study of antiquity: magic, traditional narratives, and the Lucianic oeuvre itself. Ogden's cross-fertilising expertise in all three of these fields enables him to build sophisticated analyses for each of the tales and to place them sensitively in their historical, cultural and literary contexts. Among the themes of the work are Lucian's methods of adapting motifs from traditional narratives, and the text's overlooked Cynic voice.
Author: David Bronstein Publisher: New in Chess ISBN: 9789056912727 Category : Chess Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The legendary David Bronstein, artist and sorcerer of the chess board, uses examples from his own brillant games to develop club player's skills. An unconventional book with interesting stories and easy-to-understand teaching material. This is a revised and expanded edition of a modern chess classic, written by an icon of chess in the 20st century.
Author: Jack Zipes Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691191425 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 430
Book Description
"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" might conjure up images of Mickey Mouse from the Disney film Fantasia, or of Harry Potter. As this anthology reveals, however, "sorcerer's apprentice" tales--in which a young person rebels against, or complies with, an authority who holds the keys to magical powers--have been told through the centuries, in many languages and cultures, from classical times to today. This unique and beautifully illustrated book brings together more than fifty sorcerer's apprentice stories by a plethora of writers, including Ovid, Sir Walter Scott, and the Brothers Grimm. From Goethe's "The Pupil in Magic" to A.K. Ramanujan's "The Guru and His Disciple," this expansive collection presents variations of a classic passed down through countries and eras. Readers enter worlds where household objects are brought to life and shape-shifting occurs from human to animal and back again. We meet two types of apprentice: "The Humiliated Apprentice," a foolish bumbler who wields magic ineffectively and promotes obedience to authority; and "The Rebellious Apprentice" who, through ambition and transformative skills, promotes empowerment and self-awareness. In an extensive introduction, esteemed fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes discusses the significance and meaning of the apprentice stories, the contradictions in popular retellings, and the importance of magic as a tool of resistance against figures who abuse their authority.
Author: James Ponti Publisher: Disney Press ISBN: 9781423126904 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The junior novel is a 144-page retelling of the blockbuster film, The Socerer's Apprentice. Featuring an eight-page full-colored photo insert with stills from the movie, this is sure to be a must for fans of the soon-to-be hit film!
Author: Don Ferguson Publisher: Golden/Disney ISBN: 0736438696 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 15
Book Description
A Little Golden Book starring Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice from the classic 1940 film Walt Disney's Fantasia! Mickey Mouse causes all sorts of problems when he puts on a sorcerer's hat and uses magic to get his chores done. Before long, an army of walking brooms have caused a giant flood! Can Mickey make everything right again? "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the most-beloved segment from Walt Disney's animated classic Fantasia, released in 1940. This Little Golden Book, retelling the magical tale, was originally published in 1995. Children ages 2 to 5, as well as collectors of ages, will love this newly published version!
Author: François Augiéras Publisher: Pushkin Press ISBN: 178227040X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 81
Book Description
In the depths of the Salardais, "a land of ghosts, cool caves and woods", a teenage boy is sent to live with a thirty-five-year-old priest. The man becomes more than just his teacher. Soon the adolescent meets a young boy in the village square; they make love to each other like shadows in a cave. The priest knows of their involvement and guides his pupil to seek out his own soul in strange, almost supernatural rituals. It becomes clear that this tense, shadowy tale, burning with love, is a eulogy in praise of difference, an act of worship to beauty in nature. Published in English for the first time, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is "a galant, almost magical book" that is one of modern literature's esoteric, underground texts.
Author: Lisa Abend Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451626622 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
"Kitchen Confidential" meets "Heat" in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world's best restaurant and the aspiring chefs who toil to make it so exceptional. Elected best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine an unprecedented five times, El Bulli is the laboratory of Ferran Adria, the maverick creator of molecular gastronomy. Behind each of the thirty or more courses that make up a meal at El Bulli is a small army of young cooks who do the work of executing Adria's vision in exchange for nothing more than the chance to learn at his hands. Granted unprecedented access to this guild system, Lisa Abend follows the thirty-five stagiaries of the 2009 season as they struggle to master the grueling hours, cutting-edge techniques, and interpersonal tensions that come with working at the most revered restaurant on earth.
Author: Ishay Landa Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047443810 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
20th-century European Fascism is conventionally described by both historians and political scientists as a fierce assault on liberal politics, culture and economics. Departing from such typical analysis, this book highlights the long overlooked critical affinities between liberal tradition and fascism. Far from being the antithesis of liberalism, fascism, both in its ideology and its practice, was substantially, if dialectically, indebted to liberalism, particularly to its economic variant. Fascism ought to be seen centrally as an effort to unknot the longue durée tangle of the liberal order, as it finally collided, head on, with mass democracy. This brilliantly provocative thesis is sustained through innovative and incisive readings of seminal political thinkers, from Locke and Burke, to Proudhon, Bagehot, Sorel and Schmitt.
Author: Jesper Ejsing Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games ISBN: 9781589943216 Category : Apprentices Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Jarvis, the son of a goat herder, cannot believe his luck when he is chosen to be the sorcerer Harnigel's apprentice but soon learns that things are not what they seem at Harnigel's keep.
Author: Daniel Ogden
Author: Daniel Ogden
Author: David Bronstein
Author: Jack Zipes
Author: James Ponti
Author: Tahir Shah
Author: Don Ferguson
Author: François Augiéras
Author: Lisa Abend
Author: Ishay Landa
Author: Jesper Ejsing