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Author: Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York
Author: Robert HoeGreat Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Author: Louis MoreriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes
Author: Pierre BrunelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317387147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the modern age throughout literature, whether fiction, poetry or drama. Essays on classical figures, as well as later myths, explore the origin, development and various incarnations of their subjects. Alongside entries on western archetypes, are analyses of non-European myths from across the world, including Africa, China, Japan, Latin America and India. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of literature, history and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating world of mythology. A detailed bibliography and index are included. ‘The Companion provides a fine interpretive road map to Western culture’s use of archetypal stories.’ Wilson Library Review ‘It certainly is a comprehensive volume... extremely useful.’ Times Higher Education Supplement
The Boke Named The Gouernour
Author: Sir Thomas ElyotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education of princes
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Extremities
Author: Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300088878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby shows that these paintings about occurrences in the West Indies, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Ottoman Empire Greece are preoccupied not with mastery and control but with loss, degradation, and failure, and she explains how such representations of crises in the colonies were able to answer the artists' longings as well as the needs of the government and the opposition parties at home. Empire made painters devoted to the representation of liberty and the new French nation confront liberty's antithesis: slavery. It also forced them to contend with cultural and racial difference. Young male artists responded, says Grigsby, by translating distant crises into images of challenges to the self, making history painting the site where geographic extremities and bodily extremities articulated one another.
The Cambridge History of Warfare
Author: Geoffrey ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
The Ultimate Spectacle
Author: Ulrich KellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134392095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
Catalogue d'estampes anciennes et modernes, de dessins etc., eaux-fortes et gravures au burin, principalement des 17e et 18e siècles, portraits, planches topographiques de La Haye, planches historiques, dessins, provenant de divers successions ...
Author: After the Revolution
Author: David O'BrienPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271023058
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The many color illustrations in After the Revolution enable the reader to follow O'Brien's informative analysis of the mixing of fact and fiction in such famed paintings as The Battlefield of Eylau. This book will be of interest to art historians, students of political and military history, and all those fascinated by Napoleon."--BOOK JACKET.