The Firebringer And Other Great Stories
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The Firebringer And Other Great Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Release Date : 1986-09
The Firebringer And Other Great Stories written by and has been published by Henry Holt & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-09 with Social Science categories.
A retelling of fifty-five myths and legends from many countries including the stories of Jason, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and Chanticleer.
Firebringer And Other Great Stories
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Author : Louis Untermeyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968-10-01
Firebringer And Other Great Stories written by Louis Untermeyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-10-01 with Legends categories.
How Why Stories
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Author : Martha Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: august house
Release Date : 1999
How Why Stories written by Martha Hamilton and has been published by august house this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Did you ever look carefully at a spider's web? If their purpose is strictly to catch flies, why do spiders weave such beautiful, intricate webs? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder? Why is the sea salty? How did tigers get their stripes? In this collection of delightful tales from around the world and through the ages, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does.
Birth Of The Firebringer
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Author : Meredith Ann Pierce
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-06-23
Birth Of The Firebringer written by Meredith Ann Pierce and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-23 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Volume One of the Firebringer Trilogy Jan, the prince of the unicorns, is high-spirited, reckless-and the despair of his mighty father, Korr. Reluctantly, Korr allows Jan to accompany the other initiate warriors on a pilgrimage. Soon Jan's curiosity leads him, along with his friend Dagg, and their mentor, the female warrior Tek, into the greatest dangers-deadly gryphons, sly pans, wyverns, pards, and renegade unicorns. Yet time after time they are rescued, leading Jan to wonder: Am I the heir to a special destiny? "The language is poetic, with wonderful rhythm and sweeping images...The world is a compelling one, and Jan is a dramatic hero."—Booklist
The Firebringer
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Author : Sean Guy
language : en
Publisher: Sean Guy
Release Date : 2019-09-25
The Firebringer written by Sean Guy and has been published by Sean Guy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
Ancient Power. Organised Crime. Welcome to Tower City. Matthew Norton is a lawyer facing his darkest days. It was once his job to argue the difference between justice and revenge. He’s no longer sure there is a difference. Finding closure means plunging deep into Tower City’s criminal under-world and waging war with the most bloodthirsty assassin the city has to offer. He’s hired someone who might be able to help; a dangerous outcast with enemies of his own. Together they’ll burn Tower City to the ground if they have to. *** The Firebringer is part one of the Tower City Chronicles. Five books set over five weeks. A fast-paced urban fantasy series like no other!
Reading The Juggler Of Notre Dame
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Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2022-07-25
Reading The Juggler Of Notre Dame written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts. Part one contextualises Our Lady’s Tumbler, a French poem of the late 1230s, by comparing it with episodes in the Bible and miracles in a wide variety of medieval European sources. It relates this material to analogues and folklore across the ages from, among others, Persian, Jewish and Hungarian cultures. Part two scrutinizes the reception and impact of the poem with reference to modern European and American literature, including works by the Nobel prize-winner Anatole France, professor-poet Katharine Lee Bates, philosopher-historian Henry Adams and poet W.H. Auden. This innovative collection of sources introduces readers to many previously untranslated texts, and invites them to explore the journey of Our Lady’s Tumbler across both sides of the Atlantic. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings will benefit scholars and students alike. The short introductions and numerous annotations shed light on unusual beliefs and practices of the past, making the readings accessible to anyone with an interest in the arts and an openness to the Middle Ages.
The Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity
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Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2018-10-31
The Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
Childhood And The Classics
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Author : Sheila Murnaghan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-16
Childhood And The Classics written by Sheila Murnaghan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. Rather than discussing the role of classics in education, it focuses on books read for enjoyment, and on two genres of children's literature in particular: the myth collection and the historical novel. The tradition of myths retold as children's stories is traced in the work of writers and illustrators from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, while the discussion of historical fiction focuses particularly on the roles of nationality and gender in the construction of an ancient world for modern children. The book concludes with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. Recognition of the fundamental role in children's literature of adults' ideas about what children want or need is balanced throughout by attention to the ways in which child readers have made such works their own. The formative experiences of antiquity discussed throughout help to explain why despite growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children, the classical past remains perennially interesting and inspiring.
Classical Reception And Children S Literature
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Author : Owen Hodkinson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-30
Classical Reception And Children S Literature written by Owen Hodkinson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with History categories.
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical 'nonsense' in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics.
Joan Of Arc
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Author : Gail Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Joan Of Arc written by Gail Patterson and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Few individuals in the annals of world history have had so lasting an impact as Joan of Arc, who rallied a country behind her and continues to inspire people today. Although she began life as a peasant, she became a key figure in the latter stages of the Hundred Years' War. As a teenager she experienced visions from God calling her to aid the French king. Her confidence and bearing, along with her fervent adherence to God and her Catholic faith, belied her age and so influenced the monarch that he made her commander of one of his companies. She helped lead the French forces in battle against the English, in turn becoming a national icon. However, she was eventually captured and tried by the English in a trial rife with ecclesiastical and political overtones. Convicted as a heretic, Joan was sentenced and burned at the stake. As a martyr, she gained mythic status and the Roman Catholic Church made her a saint in 1920. This book presents a fascinating study of Joan of Arc's life based on excerpts from John A Mooney's gripping 1919 biography. The overview is augmented by a substantial and selective bibliography, featuring access provided through author, title, and subject indexes.