The cults of the epic heroes and the evidence of epic poetry : protocol of the ninth colloquy, 27 January 1974

Protocol series of the colloquies of the Center for Hermeneutical Studies in Hellenistic and Modern Culture ;

Colloquy (Center for Hermeneutical Studies in Hellenistic and Modern Culture) ;

To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination

Prologue: Washington, July 4, 1848 -- America's First Foreign War -- A Dare-Devil War Spirit -- The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue -- Visions of Romance and Chivalry -- A New Stock of Heroes -- Travelers in a Foreign Land -- A War-Literature -- Poetry and the Popular Arts -- The Historians' War -- The War and the Republic -- Epilogue: A New Epoch in American History.

To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination

Prologue: Washington, July 4, 1848 -- America's First Foreign War -- A Dare-Devil War Spirit -- The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue -- Visions of Romance and Chivalry -- A New Stock of Heroes -- Travelers in a Foreign Land -- A War-Literature -- Poetry and the Popular Arts -- The Historians' War -- The War and the Republic -- Epilogue: A New Epoch in American History.

Writing war : medieval literary responses to warfare

The De re militari of Vegetius in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Heroes of war : Ambroises's heroes of the Third Crusade / Warfare in the works of Rudolf Von Ems / Chronicling the Hundred Years War in Burgundy and France in the fifteenth century / War and knighthood in Christine de Pizan's Livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie / Barbour's Bruce: compilation in retrospect / 'Peace is good after war': the narrative seasons of English Arthurian tradition / The invisible seige: the depiction of warfare in the poetry of Chaucer / Warfare and combat in Le morte Darthur / Women and warfare in medieval English writing / Speaking for the victim

Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) : a collection of critical essays

Twentieth century views

A Spectrum book

Spectrum book.

Twentieth century views.

That boy LeRoi / The development of LeRoi Jones / Black literature and LeRoi Jones / LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka) : form and the progression of consciousness / The trial of LeRoi Jones / Blues people / The aesthetic of Blues people / Jones (Baraka) and his literary heritage in The system of Dante's hell / LeRoi Jones' Tales : sketches of the artist as a young man moving toward a blacker art / Imamu Amiri Baraka : the quest for moral order / Baraka as poet / The changing same : Black music in the poetry of Amiri Baraka / The search for identity in Baraka's Dutchman / Dutchman and The slave : companions in revolution / The corrupted warrior heroes : Amiri Baraka's The toilet / Great goodness of life : Baraka's Black bourgeoisie blues / Myth, magic, and manhood in LeRoi Jones' Madheart / Vision and form in Slave ship

From a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of The empire strikes back

Star Wars, The empire strikes back

Empire strikes back (Motion picture)

Eyes of the empire / Hunger / Ion control / A good kiss / She will keep them warm / Heroes of the rebellion / Rogue Two / Kendal / Against all odds / Beyond hope / The truest duty / A naturalist on Hoth / The dragonsnake saves R2 / For the last time / Rendezvous point / The final order / Amara Kel's rules for TIE pilot survival (probably) / The first lesson / Distrubance / This is no cave / Lord Vader will see you now / Vengence / Tooth and claw / STET! / Wait for it / Standard imperial procedure / There is always another / Fake it till you make it / But what does he eat? / Beyond the clouds / Not time for poetry / Bespin escape / Faith in an old friend / Due on Batuu / Into the clouds / The witness / The who build Cloud City / The backup backup plan / Right-hand man / The Whills strike back

The Vikings [sound recording]

The great courses. Ancient & medieval history

Great courses (Compact disc)

The Vikings in medieval history -- Land and people of medieval Scandinavia -- Scandinavian society in the Bronze Age -- Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman ages -- The age of migrations -- The Norse gods -- Runes, poetry, and visual arts -- Legendary kings and heroes -- A revolution in shipbuilding -- Warfare and society in the Viking Age -- Merchants and commerce in the Viking Age -- Christendom on the eve of the Viking Age.

Viking raids on the Carolingian Empire -- The Duchy of Normandy -- Viking assault on England -- The Danelaw -- Viking assault on Ireland -- Norse kings of Dublin and Ireland -- The settlement of Iceland -- Iceland, a frontier republic -- Skaldic poetry and sagas -- Western voyages to Greenland and Vinland -- Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia -- The road to Byzantium.

From Varangians into Russians -- Transformation of Scandinavian Society -- St. Anskar and the first Christian missions -- Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark -- Cnut the Great -- Collapse of Cnut's empire -- Jarls and sea kings of Norway -- St. Olaf of Norway -- Kings of the Swedes and Goths -- Christianization and economic change -- From Vikings to crusaders -- The Viking legacy.

British Victorian literature : recent revaluations

Victorianism: Victorianism / Toward a definition of Victorian activism / Poetry: Communication and the Victorian poet / The intellectual quest of the Victorian poets / The jewelled bow: a study of Browning's imagery and humanism / The moment in th dramatic monologues of Robert Browning / Tennyson: artifice and image / The contraries: a central concept in Tennyson's poetry / Equilibrium in the poetry of Matthew Arnold / Kipling / Swinburne / Intress of Inscape: G.M. Hopkins / Pre-Raphaelite poetry / Fiction: The modern values of Victorian fiction / Religious humanism and the Victorian novel: a postscript / Determinism and responsibility in the works of George Eliot / The heroes and heroines of Dickens / Truth about the whole range of society: W.M. Thackeray / Hardy's major fiction / Charlotte and Emily Bronte / The novels of George Meredith / Henry James and the trapped spectator / Henry James: the private universe / Prose: Calm between crises: pattern and direction in Ruskin's mature thought / Thomas Carlyle / Newman and the Oxford Movement / Lytton Strachey's conception of biography / Criticism: Between two worlds: Matthew Arnold and romanticism / Walter Pater's literary theory and criticism / Drama: The divide self in the society comedies of Oscar Wilde

How to read Chinese poetry in context : poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang

How to read Chinese literature

How to read Chinese literature.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- THEMATIC CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE HOW TO READ CHINESE LITERATURE SERIES -- PREFACE TO THE VOLUME -- CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL EVENTS -- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry / PART I: PRE-HAN TIMES -- 1. Poetry and Diplomacy in Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan) / 2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci) / PART II: THE HAN DYNASTY -- 3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru's "Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody" ("Zixu/Shanglin fu") / 4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han / 5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China / PART III: THE SIX DYNASTIES -- 6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos / 7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove / 8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian / 9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue / PART IV: THE TANG DYNASTY -- 10. Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems / 11. Tang Civil Service Examinations / 12. Tang Women at the Public/Private Divide / 13. Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan / 14. Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Li Bai and the Poetics of Wine / 15. Du Fu: The Poet as Historian / 16. Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen / 17. Li He: Poetry as Obsession / Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Glossary-Index.

Eating fire, tasting blood : breaking the great silence of the American Indian Holocaust

Anthology of the American Indian Holocaust

Breaking the great silence of the American Holocaust

Permissions -- Introduction / manifest destiny : greed disguised as God -- flood of tears and blood : and yet the Pope said Indians had souls / savages in the mirror : phantoms and fantasies in America / name is half the game : the theft of "America" and indigenous claims of sovereignty / Indians affairs : Hebrews 13:8 / Christian civilization / Colonial fascinations : God save the-- oh, say, can you-- oh Canada / Speaking out : religious rights and imprisoned American Indian women / "I learned to preach pretty well, and to cuss, too" : Hopi acceptance and rejection of Christianity at Sherman Institute, 1906-1928 / Remembering : Atop Polacca on First Mesa / 3. Propaganda : exposure and surveillance -- Indian nations and the American holocausts / Choctaw legacy : how to lose your country twice in fourteen treaties / Cherokee Nation : a colonial morality play in three acts / Weeds from the under world : the conquest of Tsenacomoco and Monascane / Washita, a slaughter, not a battle : a Cheyenne survivor's perspective / Nicaragua : What's Ward Churchill got against you?"

Matriarchy : where were/are the women in all of this? -- One dress to walk 800 miles / Fire / One woman can make a grand difference / Winyan Wakan (Sacred woman) / From Wasouk to Shoah and back : a Mi'kmaq honor song / In each trace of footstep : the constant song of SpiritMemory / At this moment : reviving the space between then and when? -- American heritage / Looking to the past to find the future / Resilience and responsibility : surviving the new genocide / Majesties lost / When the true ending began / So our children will know

Remembering and never forgetting : the firestorm in between -- Performing nation, performing identity : American Indian storytelling, poetry, and song in practice (thoughts on cultural survival in the wake of the new Indian Wars) / jumping through the hoops of history (for columbus, custer, sheridan, wayne, and all such heroes of yesteryear) / Long time gone cradleboard song / Japanese gardens / All my ancestors have blisters on their toes / Lady in turtleneck / Invisibility lessons #1 and #2 / Giveaway (in gratitude for all of it : theft, smallpox, relocation and denial.) Wido / I dreamt the world was round / To tell our side / Apprentices to justice / Finding Carrie : reaffirming identity through blood, beads, and bones / Contributors -- About the editor -- Index.

Space, time and language in Plutarch

(10th :

Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millennium studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E. ;

Millennium-Studien ;

Reading Plutarch through space, time and language / Space travel and time travel in Plutarch / Time and space in Plutarch's Lives / Espace mémoriel et paysage monumental: Plutarque et l'Athènes de son temps / Françoise Frazier -- Plutarch and tense: the present and the imperfect / Narrative time and space in Plutarch's Life of Nicias / Space, time, and language in on the oracles of the Pythia: "3,000 years of history, never proved wrong" / Poetry, extravagance, and the invention of the "archaic" in Plutarch's On the oracles of the Pythia / Delphi, place and time in Plutarch's Lycurgus and Lysander / Greeks and the Roman past in the Second Sophistic: the case of Plutarch / Plutarch and the advent of Hellenism in Rome / Creating paradigms for the politikoi: bridging the gap in political space and time with pre-imperial heroes / Discussing the past: moral virtue, truth, and benevolence in Plutarch's On the malice of Herodotus / Solon on the road / Modelli del passato in due conferenze di Plutarco: De gloria atheniensium e De audiendo / Shifting boundaries: philotimia in democratic Athens and in Plutarch's Lives / Is dualism a Greek word? Plutarch's dualism as a cultural and historical phenomenon / Egyptian knowledge at Plutarch's table: out of the question? / Divisions in Greek culture: cultural topoi in Plutarch's biographical practice / The construction of a cosmopolitan space in Plutarch's On exile / Significato del termine xenos in Plutarco: lo straniero nella realtà dell'Impero cosmopolita / Past and present in Plutarch's Table talk / Sympotic space, hierarchy and Homeric quotation in Table talk 1.2 / Plutarque et la tradition rhétorique du banquet / Theseis rather than quaestiones convivales / Individuated gods and sacred space in Plutarch / Espacio monumental y autopsia en las Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco / Military space and paideia in the lives of Pyrrhus and Marius / Astronomical and political space: the sun's course and the statesman's power in Plutarch and Dio

A little history of poetry

History of poetry

[Little histories]

Little histories (Yale University Press)

Gods, heroes and monsters : The Epic of Gilgamesh -- War, adventure, love : Homer, Sappho -- Latin classics : Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Juvenal -- Anglo-Saxon poetry : Beowulf, laments and riddles -- Continental masters of the Middle Ages : Dante, Daniel, Petrarch, Villon -- A European poet : Chaucer -- Poets of the seen world and the unseen : The Gawain poet, Hafez, Langland -- Tudor Court poets : Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser -- Elizabethan love poets : Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney -- Copernicus in poetry : John Donne -- An age of individualism : Jonson, Herrick, Marvell -- Religious individualists : Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne -- Poetry from the world beyond : John Milton -- The Augustan age : Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith -- The other Eighteenth Century : Montagu, Egerton, Finch, Tollet, Leapor, Yearsley, Barbauld, Blamire, Baillie, Wheatley, Duck, Clare, Thomson, Cowper, Crabbe, Gray, Smart -- Communal poetry : popular ballads and hymns -- Lyrical ballads, and after : Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Second-generation romantics : Keats and Shelley -- Romantic eccentrics : Blake, Byron, Burns -- From Romanticism to Modernism in German poetry : Goethe, Heine, Rilke -- Making Russian literature : Pushkin, Lermontov -- Great Victorians : Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold -- Reform, resolve and religion, Victorian women poets : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti -- American revolutionaries : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson -- Shaking the foundations : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valéry, Dylan Thomas, Edward Lear, Charles Dodgson, Swinburne, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Charlotte Mew, Oscar Wilde -- New voices at the end of an era : Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Hopkins -- The Georgian poets : Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, W.H. Davies, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, W.W. Gibson, Robert Graves, D.H. Lawrence -- Poetry of the First World War : Stadler, Toller, Grenfell, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, Cole, Cannan, Sinclair, McCrae -- The great escapist : W.B. Yeats -- Inventing Modernism : Eliot, Pound -- West meets East : Waley, Pound, the Imagists -- American Modernists : Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Esther Popel, Helene Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes -- Getting over Modernism : Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop -- The Thirties poets : Auden, Spender, MacNeice -- Poetry of the Second World War : Douglas, Lewis, Keyes, Fuller, Ross, Causley, Reed, Simpson, Shapiro, Wilbur, Jarrell, Pudney, Ewart, Sitwell, Feinstein, Stanley-Wrench, Clark -- American confessional poets, and others : Lowell, Berryman, Snodgrass, Sexton, Roethke -- The movement poets and associates : Larkin, Enright, Jennings, Gunn, Betjeman, Stevie Smith -- Fatal attractions : Hughes, Plath -- Poets in politics : Tagore, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Seferis, Seifert, Herbert, MacDiarmid, R.S. Thomas, Amichai -- Poets who cross boundaries : Heaney, Walcott, Angelou, Oliver, Murray.