Author: Vayos LiapisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107155703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.
Adapting Greek Tragedy
Author: Vayos LiapisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107155703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.
The University of Georgia
Author: Thomas G. DyerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323985
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Thomas G. Dyer’s definitive history of the University of Georgia celebrates the bicentennial of the school’s founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the South. The Georgia legislature in January 1785 approved a charter establishing “a public seat of learning in this state.” For the next sixteen years the university’s trustees struggled to convert its endowment--forty thousand acres of land in the backwoods--into enough money to support a school. By 1801 the university had a president, a campus on the edge of Indian country, and a few students. Over the next two centuries the small liberal arts college that educated the sons of lawyers and planters grew into a major research university whose influence extends far beyond the boundaries of the state. The course of that growth has not always been smooth. This volume includes careful analyses of turning points in the university’s history: the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of land-grant colleges, the coming of intercollegiate athletics, the admission of women to undergraduate programs, the enrollment of thousands of World War II veterans, and desegregation. All are considered in the context of what was occurring elsewhere in the South and in the nation.
Words on Cassette
Author: Pied Piper of Lovers
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is Durrell's first novel, published in 1935, shortly after he left England to live abroad until his death in 1990. It traces Walsh Clifton's Anglo-Indian childhood and his struggles to negotiate a life between "mother" India and "father" England. The trauma of leaving India for an alien home propels the novel's concerns with colonial life and its wounds, transitioning from an idyllic rural world to London and Bloomsbury in the 1920s.
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality
Author: Richard M. LangworthPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476628785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the author's fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.
College Life in the Old South
Author: E. Merton CoulterPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331996
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.
Schwann Supplementary Record & Tape Guide
Author: A Celtic Song-cycle
Author: Arnold BaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Song cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Panic Spring
Author: Lawrence DurrellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author's first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist techniques merge with rural life and the peasant village that an international group of expatriates are led to by a curiously Pan-like boatman. Unavailable for seven decades, this new edition of Panic Spring shows Durrell's emerging passion for Mediterranean life and the Greek world as well as his first attempts to articulate a political-aesthetic direction distinct from his peers, George Orwell and W.H. Auden. Under the shadow of financial and political ruin, on the verge of revolution and war, the one chance summer depicted in Panic Spring will make readers reconsider the impetus and interests behind Durrell's late modernist masterpieces, The Alexandria Quartet, The Black Book, and Prospero's Cell." -- Publisher's website.
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