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Author: Prudence J. Jones Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806137414 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 372
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This fascinating sourcebook documents what we know of Cleopatra and also shows how she has evolved through the lens of interpretation.
Author: Prudence J. Jones Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806137414 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 372
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This fascinating sourcebook documents what we know of Cleopatra and also shows how she has evolved through the lens of interpretation.
Author: James Leslie Mitchell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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This collection of short stories by one of Scotland's best loved authors was first published in the 1930s. Now back in print, its sense of the fantastic and exotic still holds true.
Author: Lynn Garafola Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300061765 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 474
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The dance, art, music, and cultural worlds of the Ballets Russes--a dance company which helped define the avant-garde in the early part of this century--are surveyed in this book, which begins with Serge Diaghilev's influence. 200+ illustrations.
Author: Joe Andrew Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9789042011359 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 228
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Puskin's poetry, prose and drama frequently draw upon myths of classical antiquity, myths of modern European culture - grand narratives such as the Don Juan legend and Dante's Inferno - as well as uniquely Russian myths. The contributors to this volume explore these myths from a variety of critical viewpoints and highlight the specific ways in which Pushkin uses myth - among these his recurrent emphasis on the symbolism of monuments and statuary.
Author: Barbara Keaton Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc. ISBN: 1585715395 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 165
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Ashalon is a professor of Egyptology at Cairo University. He is none too happy to learn that another American is coming to his country to dig among the ruins of his ancestors. He vows to make it difficult things difficult for this foreigner, who has been given permission by the Council of Antiquities. . .at least until he meets the American upstart, Corina Camden. Professor Camden is searching for mummified remains from the Twenty-first and Twenty-second dynasties, and she quickly captivates Ashalon. Nights Over Egypt is a story of archeological digs, rich culture and buried passion.
Author: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804718004 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 564
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Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. This is a new translation of all his prose fiction, from his famous story "The Queen of Spades" down to unfinished stories and fragments that appear in English for the first time. Pushkin's non-fictional A History of Pugachev, also translated into English for the first time, is included because it furnished the historical background of his novel The Captain's Daughter. The translator has taken care to achieve a balance between faithfulness to the original and readability in English, and several Russian editions have been collated to establish an accurate text. The translations are annotated to place each work in its historical context, and to eluvidate passages not easily understandable to today's reader. Appendixes present a chapter that Pushkin deleted from The Captain's Daughter; fictional fragments; Pushkin's outlines of projected works; and the apocryphal novella The Lonely Cottage on Vasilev Island.
Author: David Herman Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810116928 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 305
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The primal scene of all nineteenth-century western thought might involve an observer gazing at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondering what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. For Russia, most of whose people hovered near the poverty line throughout history, the scene is one of special significance, presenting a plethora of questions and possibilities for writers who wished to depict the spiritual and material reality of Russian life. How these writers responded, and what their portrayal of poverty reveals and articulates about core values of Russian culture, is the subject of this book, which offers a compelling look into the peculiar convergence in nineteenth-century Russian literature of ideas about the poor and about the processes of art.
Author: Norman Mailer Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812986067 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 857
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Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer’s reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle. An extraordinary work of inventiveness, Ancient Evenings lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned. Praise for Ancient Evenings “Astounding, beautifully written . . . a leap of imagination that crosses three millennia to Pharaonic Egypt.”—USA Today “Mailer makes a miraculous present out of age-deep memories, bringing to life the rhythms, the images, the sensuousness of a lost time.”—The New York Times “Mailer’s Egypt is a haunting and magical place. . . . The reader wallows in the scope, depth, the sheer magnitude and—yes—the fertility of his imagination.”—The Washington Post Book World “An enormous pyramid of a novel [reminiscent of] Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Carlos Fuentes’s Terra Nostra.”—Los Angeles Herald Examiner Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post
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