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Playing Gods
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Author : Andrew Feldherr
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-16
Playing Gods written by Andrew Feldherr and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.
Playing God
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Author : Andy Crouch
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2013-09-06
Playing God written by Andy Crouch and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-06 with Religion categories.
With Playing God, Andy Crouch opens the subject of power, elucidating its subtle activity in our relationships and institutions. He gives us much more than a warning against abuse, though. Turning the notion of "playing God" on its head, Crouch celebrates power as the gift by which we join in God's creative, redeeming work in the world.
Gods Games
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Author : David L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Stillpoint/Athena
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Gods Games written by David L. Miller and has been published by Stillpoint/Athena this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Philosophy categories.
A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo ludens — "Man the Game-player" — which suggests that play is a central aspect of the human spirit and human culture. "A comprehensive and clear review.... loaded with quotations both pertinent and entertaining that may be eye-openers both to traditional religionists and readers who may never have thought about play in a philosophical or religious sense." —Publishers Weekly
Gods At Play An Eyewitness Account Of Great Moments In American Sports
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Author : Tom Callahan
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Gods At Play An Eyewitness Account Of Great Moments In American Sports written by Tom Callahan and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A beautifully observed narrative of American sport: character, grit, tragedy, unremarked heroism, and, always, the illuminating story behind the story. As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he’d tested positive for HIV. There are also little-known private moments: Joe Morgan whispering thank you to a virtually blind Jackie Robinson on the field at the 1972 World Series, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying he was more interested in being a good man than in being the greatest basketball player. Brimming with colorful vignettes and enlivened by Callahan’s eye for detail, Gods at Play offers surprising portraits of the most celebrated names in sports. Roger Rosenblatt calls Callahan “the most complete sportswriter in America. He knows the most and writes the best."
Playing To The Gods
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Author : Peter Rader
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Playing To The Gods written by Peter Rader and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The riveting story of the rivalry between the two most renowned actresses of the nineteenth century: legendary Sarah Bernhardt, whose eccentricity on and off the stage made her the original diva, and mystical Eleonora Duse, who broke all the rules to popularize the natural style of acting we celebrate today. Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played. Eleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed—channeling their spirits, she claimed. Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater—and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Bernhardt and Duse seduced each other’s lovers, stole one another’s favorite playwrights, and took to the world’s stages to outperform their rival in her most iconic roles. A scandalous, enormously entertaining history full of high drama and low blows, Playing to the Gods is the perfect “book for all of us who binge-watched Feud” (Daniel de Visé, author of Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show).
Playing God
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Author : T. L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Playing God written by T. L. Smith and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with categories.
When powerful aliens play God, humanity has to fight back in creative ways to survive. The people of ancient Greece have been fooled - the beings they believe are Gods are merely powerful aliens on a quest to find ways to continue their bloodlines after becoming infertile among themselves. The "Gods" are capricious, cruel, and cunning, and have subjected humanity to ten years of turmoil with the Trojan War, all for their own amusements. Hypnos and Pasithea are half-bloods caught in the struggle between their powerful alien mothers and the others who have claimed Greece as their own. Their love is forbidden, and drastic measures are used to keep them apart. Now, in order to save and claim the woman he loves, Hypnos will have to become not only a man, but someone who can fool the Gods themselves, by changing the story so that the good can triumph. But has he learned enough tricks from the Gods to best them, or will Pasithea pay the ultimate price for his failure?
Playing God
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Author : Henry Bial
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Playing God written by Henry Bial and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Performing Arts categories.
A fascinating look at how the Bible has inspired Broadway plays and musicals, from Ben-Hur to Jesus Christ Superstar
Gods Of Play
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Author : Kristiaan Aercke
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-08-04
Gods Of Play written by Kristiaan Aercke and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe. As an emblem of this interrelationship, the author has chosen the phenomenon of the splendid festive performance of spectacular plays and operas given at absolutist courts in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Versailles, and Vienna between 1631 and 1668. Gods of Play fills voids in the scholarly literature on the seventeenth-century, on absolutism, on courtly theatricality, and on the philosophy of play. Aercke demonstrates that such splendid performances were not just frivolous entertainment for the courtly class but were serious activities with far-ranging political consequences.
Acting Gods Playing Heroes And The Interaction Between Judaism Christianity And Greek Drama In The Early Common Era
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Author : Courtney J. P. Friesen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-07
Acting Gods Playing Heroes And The Interaction Between Judaism Christianity And Greek Drama In The Early Common Era written by Courtney J. P. Friesen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers are invited to explore how gods and heroes famous from Greek drama animated the imaginations of ancient individuals and communities as they articulated and reinvented their religious visions for a new era. In this study, Friesen demonstrates that Greek theater’s influence is evident within Jewish and Christian intellectual formulations, narrative constructions, and practices of ritual and liturgy. Through a series of interrelated case studies, the book examines how particular plays, through texts and performances, scenes, images, and heroic personae, retained appeal for Jewish and Christian communities across antiquity. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving classical, Jewish, and Christian studies, and brings together these separate avenues of scholarship to produce fresh insights and a reevaluation of theatrical drama in relation to ancient Judaism and Christianity. Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era allows students and scholars of the diverse and evolving religious landscapes of antiquity to gain fresh perspectives on the interplay between the gods and heroes—both human and divine—of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians as they were staged in drama and depicted in literature.
Let S Play Gods
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Author : Victor Freeze
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-25
Let S Play Gods written by Victor Freeze and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with Fiction categories.
Let’s Play Gods By: Victor Freeze Let’s Play Gods is about a young boy’s quest for glory. Too bad he didn’t know what it would cost. Many are dead and many others display powers resembling the Greek gods! With the government and a mysterious force tracking their every move, what will he do to make his world a better place? There is always a price for power.