Author: Anne Simon
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683961072
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life’s course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Kite, whose traveling circus welcomes her (including the star attraction, a waltzing Horse named Henry) and once again alters her fate, sending her down many more unexpected paths. The Song of Aglaia is the first solo graphic novel by cartoonist Anne Simon, presenting a beautifully crafted female spin on the classic heroic myths of Greek literature, tracing the journey of a victimized and then almighty woman with a graceful understanding of human relationships and loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.
The Song of Aglaia
Author: Anne Simon
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683961072
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life’s course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Kite, whose traveling circus welcomes her (including the star attraction, a waltzing Horse named Henry) and once again alters her fate, sending her down many more unexpected paths. The Song of Aglaia is the first solo graphic novel by cartoonist Anne Simon, presenting a beautifully crafted female spin on the classic heroic myths of Greek literature, tracing the journey of a victimized and then almighty woman with a graceful understanding of human relationships and loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683961072
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life’s course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Kite, whose traveling circus welcomes her (including the star attraction, a waltzing Horse named Henry) and once again alters her fate, sending her down many more unexpected paths. The Song of Aglaia is the first solo graphic novel by cartoonist Anne Simon, presenting a beautifully crafted female spin on the classic heroic myths of Greek literature, tracing the journey of a victimized and then almighty woman with a graceful understanding of human relationships and loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.
The Song of the Sirin
Author: Nicholas Kotar
Publisher: Waystone Press
ISBN: 0998847917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world? Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… Armed with the power of the song, Voran must hunt down the dark spirit before it achieves its goal of immortality. His quest takes him through doorways to other worlds and puts him on a collision course with seductive nymphs and riddling giants. With each step of the journey, the strength of the villainous spirit grows, as does Voran’s fear that the only way to save his world… is to let it be destroyed. The Song of the Sirin is an epic fantasy retelling of the Russian fairy tale Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf. If you like complex characters, creative twists on mythology, and cinematic world-building, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Song of the Sirin to begin the journey today!
Publisher: Waystone Press
ISBN: 0998847917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world? Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… Armed with the power of the song, Voran must hunt down the dark spirit before it achieves its goal of immortality. His quest takes him through doorways to other worlds and puts him on a collision course with seductive nymphs and riddling giants. With each step of the journey, the strength of the villainous spirit grows, as does Voran’s fear that the only way to save his world… is to let it be destroyed. The Song of the Sirin is an epic fantasy retelling of the Russian fairy tale Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf. If you like complex characters, creative twists on mythology, and cinematic world-building, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Song of the Sirin to begin the journey today!
The Shadow Behind the Stars
Author: Rebecca Hahn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148143571X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Heed this warning, mortal: stay far away from the three sister Fates. For if they come to love you, they might bring about the end of the world.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148143571X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Heed this warning, mortal: stay far away from the three sister Fates. For if they come to love you, they might bring about the end of the world.
Empress Cixtisis
Author: Anne Simon
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683962214
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Cixtisis, the empress of Tchitchinie, kidnaps all of the men from Agalaia’s kingdom to castrate them and make them her slaves. Anger grows amongst the female residents of Suffragette City―they want their husbands back. Will Aglaia be able to avert war and bring peace once again to the region? Anne Simon showcases a deft touch in this allegorical fantasy graphic novel brimming with subversive twists and comical turns.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1683962214
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Cixtisis, the empress of Tchitchinie, kidnaps all of the men from Agalaia’s kingdom to castrate them and make them her slaves. Anger grows amongst the female residents of Suffragette City―they want their husbands back. Will Aglaia be able to avert war and bring peace once again to the region? Anne Simon showcases a deft touch in this allegorical fantasy graphic novel brimming with subversive twists and comical turns.
The Song of the Sirens
Author: Pietro Pucci
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780822630593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780822630593
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In this collection of his essays on Homer, some new and some appearing for the first time in English, the distinguished scholar Pietro Pucci examines the linguistic and rhetorical features of the poet's works. Arguing that there can be no purely historical interpretation, given that the parameters of interpretation are themselves historically determined, Pucci focuses instead on two features of Homer's rhetoric: repetition of expression (formulae) and its effects on meaning, and the issue of intertextuality.
Louise Talma
Author: Kendra Preston Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317103211
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317103211
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life, focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult, under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger, and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis, feminist and queer musicology, and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works, comprising some eighty pieces, this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language, text-setting practices, and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters, sketches, and scores, as well as a number of other relevant documents, this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States, considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century, and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music.
The Song Less/on
Author: Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Publisher: il piccolo editions
ISBN: 1926715888
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
“Some of the best ever written . . .” –Tom McGrath in The National Guardian reviewing the haiku in The Gathering Wave. “Cardona-Hine is far more tuned to silence than Eliot; there are no phases to his theology. He offers no disciplines, nor even Zen vacancies; he offers arrivals . . . This gentle poet has little to do with the hysterical attenuated surrealism which has in recent years dominated the better little magazines. Or with archetypes of the Great Mother or other theorizing . . . It is understandable that poets want to move out into the universe, to dream of being moles, to sink into mineral veins, to make wild dissociated images that dissolve the self. But Cardona-Hine preserves the sense of human self-hood, human wonder, adventure.”–Benjamin Saltzman in Kayak reviewing Words On Paper.
Publisher: il piccolo editions
ISBN: 1926715888
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
“Some of the best ever written . . .” –Tom McGrath in The National Guardian reviewing the haiku in The Gathering Wave. “Cardona-Hine is far more tuned to silence than Eliot; there are no phases to his theology. He offers no disciplines, nor even Zen vacancies; he offers arrivals . . . This gentle poet has little to do with the hysterical attenuated surrealism which has in recent years dominated the better little magazines. Or with archetypes of the Great Mother or other theorizing . . . It is understandable that poets want to move out into the universe, to dream of being moles, to sink into mineral veins, to make wild dissociated images that dissolve the self. But Cardona-Hine preserves the sense of human self-hood, human wonder, adventure.”–Benjamin Saltzman in Kayak reviewing Words On Paper.
Shepherd Songs of Elizabethan England
Author: Adelaide L. J. Gosset
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song
Author: William H. Youngren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song brings to light the overlooked fact that C.P.E. Bach wrote a great many songs, most of which are as under appreciated as they are exemplary. All interested listeners, from amateurs to professional musicologists and singers, will benefit from the insight captured by this book.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song brings to light the overlooked fact that C.P.E. Bach wrote a great many songs, most of which are as under appreciated as they are exemplary. All interested listeners, from amateurs to professional musicologists and singers, will benefit from the insight captured by this book.
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Author: Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description