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Author: Octavio Paz Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674116290 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
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Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis- -vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.
Author: Octavio Paz Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674116290 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis- -vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.
Author: S. W. Douglas Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1528997077 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 462
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A two-part climax to The Last Vigil, An Agony of Flame and The Fury and the Mire, concludes the story of the fall of Constantinople. Here is an intense evocation, both of the gruelling eight-week siege itself and of the chaotic as well as terrifying aftermath. In part three, Niccolo and Demetrius serve on the great Roman land walls, enduring bombardment and nocturnal hand-to-hand combat. Nestor-Iskander reappears, a deserter now from the Turkish camp. Niccolo is badly wounded, recovering in Theodora’s house in the suburb of Studion. Then comes the night of the final Ottoman assault when, after a valiant defence, treachery leads to massacre (including the death of Demetrius) and Niccolo finds himself among a scatter of survivors. Part four centres on Niccolo’s frantic attempts to find a way through a city, now being systematically sacked. Moreover, he must think of others. Demetrius might be dead but Nestor-Iskander has survived and demands refuge. Then there is Theodora locked up with the faithful in Hagia Sophia. Can Niccolo reach her before the marauding enemy? So, he travels deeper and deeper into his adopted city’s heart of darkness. Nestor finds protectors, loses, then regains them. Theodora is found then lost forever. Mehmet appears once more; Cinnamon never reappears. Finally, after the city has been overwhelmed and pacified, Niccolo sets sail westward across the Mediterranean, not home to Venice but to an Atlantic shore where a new age of exploration is about to dawn.
Author: Thanos Papathanassiou Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1470938650 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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In this novella, the author clothes an actual backdrop with romanesque garnitures, offering in this way the reader a sympathetic, friendly story. The work is practically articulated in two settings: In the first one has essentially the life of the parents of our protagonist the leading role, and in terms of place Ireland, Great Britain and India. In the second one, the roaring and tragical scandals, incidents, duels and deaths that were springing up in the wake through Europe, America and Australia of our narrative's heroine, of that femme fatale, rolling stone sinner, Lola Montez, and which marked decisively the 19th century and proclaim her as an icon among the destinies of the track of the times. In brief, a scenario of literary scenes, a constellation of dramatical developments, which certainly do not leave untouched, uncarried away and unimpressed the reader.
Author: John Harney Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1496920996 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 191
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From the Mud to the Mire is a chronicle of the life of John R. (Jack) Harney. Mr. Harney has been, at times, a student/athlete, scholar, soldier, and public servant, as well as a loving son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. His autobiography tells the story of his early family life, to his (interrupted) college years at Harvard, his adventures in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European Theater, to his career in the intelligence community. His career with the National Security Agency included two tours in Germany and two tours at the Pentagon, culminating with his final assignment as Assistant Director for Policy and Liaison. Included are his poignant recollections of war, and his thoughts about its impact on those who fight in it. Jack lives in Maryland with Betty, his wife of 63 years. His family includes three children, five grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and five (soon to be six) step-great grandchildren.
Author: Sada Mire Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429769245 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 318
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This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian, pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives, the study shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance (if not always complete acceptance). Through recent archaeological and ethnographic research, the concepts, landscapes, materials and rituals believed to be associated with the indigenous and shared culture of the Sky-God belief are examined. The author makes sense, for the first time, of the relationship between the notion of sacred fertility and a number of regional archaeological features and on-going ancient practices including FGM, spirit possessions, and other physically invasive practices and the ritual hunt. The book explores one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Somaliland and Somalia, the sacred landscape of Saint Aw-Barkhadle, founded ca. 12th century AD. It is believed to be the burial place of the rulers of the first Muslim Ifat and Awdal dynasties in this region, and potentially the lost first capital of Awdal kingdom before Harar. This ritual centre is seen as a ‘microcosm’ of the ancient Horn of Africa with its exceptional multi-religious heritage, through which the author lays out a locally appropriate archaeological interpretational framework, the "Ritual Set," also applied here to the Ethiopian sites of Tiya, Sheikh Hussein Bale, Aksum and Lalibela, setting these places against a wider historical background of indigenous Sky-God belief. This archaeological study of sacred landscapes, stelae traditions, ancient Christian and medieval Muslim centres of Northeast Africa is the first to put forward a theoretical and analytical framework for the interpretation of the shared regional heritage and the indigenous archaeology of the region. It will be invaluable to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and policymakers interested in Africa and beyond.
Author: Judith Rossell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481443720 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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This spine-tingling sequel to Withering-by-Sea sees Stella sent away to the moldering old family estate, where she discovers two odd cousins—and a mystery. Eleven-year-old Stella Montgomery has always wondered about her family. What happened to her mother? And could she have a long-lost sister somewhere? Stella’s awful Aunts refuse to tell her anything, and now they have sent her away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. But dark secrets slither and skulk within overgrown grounds of the house, and Stella must be brave if she’s to find out who—or what—she really is…
Author: Anthony A Eddy Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1951530918 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 631
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‘GOD End-time Updates The Guardianship of Friends’ with eighty-six divinely selected scrolls dictated by Jesus: where The Curtain Call of God stimulates: in growth, in Faith, in righteousness, in expression, in quests, in being friendly and inviting. It affirms the value: of being under The Faith Field of Mortality, the confirmation of The Righteous Field of Morality, the requested availability of The Cleansing Field of Grace, the necessity of Seeking The Field of Preparation, The gifts of My Spirit as on The Day of Pentecost, the benefit of attaining fluency in The Heavenly Gift of Tongues, access to the given opportunity to select: the destiny of choice as the goal of life, to be so set in Faith for Freewill Activities— with righteousness prevailing as the destiny is assured. It closes out the time of Grace, opens up the time of Mercy at The Bema Seat. ‘Backstop to The Heating’ is an exceptional read in this book.
Author: Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Author: S. W. Douglas
Author: Thanos Papathanassiou
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Author: John Harney
Author: Sada Mire
Author: Judith Rossell
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Author: Anthony A Eddy
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