The Oceanos Tragedy
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The Oceanos Tragedy
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Author : Davina Avrana
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company
Release Date : 1994-09-01
The Oceanos Tragedy written by Davina Avrana and has been published by Dorrance Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-09-01 with Shipwrecks categories.
Oceanos Survivors Stories
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Author : Ian S. Uys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Oceanos Survivors Stories written by Ian S. Uys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Shipwrecks categories.
"When the MTS Oceanos sank off the Transkei coast 19 years ago on August 4, 1991, the world was shocked to learn that most the crew left the passengers to their fate when they took the first lifeboat off the sinking ship. The captain wanted to join the crew, but the ship's entertainers refused to let him go. However, the next day he pushed his way to the front of the queue to be airlifted off by helicopter, also leaving the rest of the passengers to their fate. Now Knysna author Ian Uys has just published a book about the dramatic sinking of the Oceanos"--http://www.theherald.co.za
Mayday Off The Wild Coast
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Author : Andrew Pike
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-05-14
Mayday Off The Wild Coast written by Andrew Pike and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-14 with History categories.
In August 1991, excited holiday-makers boarded the Oceanos at East London for the trip of a lifetime. Despite treacherous weather, the captain ordered the ship to set sail for Durban. And so began the ill-fated voyage. Hurricane force winds and giant rogue waves aggravated the hostile storm. Soon the ship started taking water. Panicked senior crew members scrambled into lifeboats leaving the ship’s evacuation to the on-board entertainers. At one point, a musician manned the bridge, at another, a magician. Women and children clambered aboard lifeboats which were launched into terrifying seas, leaving their husbands behind, unsure if they would see each other again. After all the operational lifeboats had been utilized, 221 passengers and junior crew were left stranded on the rapidly sinking ship. During this catastrophe the South African Air Force embarked on their biggest air rescue ever, with helicopter crews and Navy divers risking everything to evacuate the remaining passengers. In Mayday Off the Wild Coast, maritime lawyer Andrew Pike, who was part of the legal investigation into the Oceanos’ sinking, recreates the compelling drama and extraordinary heroism of the greatest maritime rescue in South African history.
Against All Odds
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Author : Andrew Pike
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Against All Odds written by Andrew Pike and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Recording the time as 12.05 am and date as 4 August, musician Moss Hills added calmly: "so I guess we're going down".' In August 1991, excited holiday-makers boarded the Oceanos at East London for the trip of a lifetime. Despite treacherous weather, the captain ordered the ship to set sail for Durban. And so began the ill-fated voyage. Hurricane force winds and giant rogue waves aggravated the hostile storm. Soon the ship started taking water. Panicked senior crew members scrambled into lifeboats leaving the ship's evacuation to the on-board entertainers. At one point, a musician manned the bridge, at another, a magician. Women and children clambered aboard lifeboats which were launched into terrifying seas, leaving their husbands behind, unsure if they would see each other again. After all the operational lifeboats had been utilised, 221 passengers and junior crew were left stranded on the rapidly sinking ship. During this catastrophe the South African Air Force embarked on their biggest air rescue ever, with helicopter crews and Navy divers risking everything to evacuate the remaining passengers. In Against All Odds, maritime lawyer Andrew Pike, who was part of the legal investigation into the Oceanos' sinking, recreates the compelling drama and extraordinary heroism of the greatest maritime rescue in South African history.
The Tragedy Of The Seas Or Sorrow On The Ocean Lake And River From Shipwreck Plague Fire And Famine
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Author : Charles Ellms
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Tragedy Of The Seas Or Sorrow On The Ocean Lake And River From Shipwreck Plague Fire And Famine written by Charles Ellms and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with Shipwrecks categories.
A Commentary On The Complete Greek Tragedies
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Author : James C. Hogan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-12-10
A Commentary On The Complete Greek Tragedies written by James C. Hogan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This commentary offers a rich introduction and useful guide to the seven surviving plays attributed to Aeschylus. Though it may profitably be used with any translation of Aeschylus, the commentary is based on the acclaimed Chicago translations, The Complete Greek Tragedies, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. James C. Hogan provides a general introduction to Aeschylean theater and drama, followed by a line-by-line commentary on each of the seven plays. He places Aeschylus in the historical, cultural, and religious context of fifth-century Athens, showing how the action and metaphor of Aeschylean theater can be illuminated by information on Athenian law athletic contests, relations with neighboring states, beliefs about the underworld, and countless other details of Hellenic life. Hogan clarifies terms that might puzzle modern readers, such as place names and mythological references, and gives special attention to textual and linguistic issues: controversial questions of interpretation; difficult or significant Greek words; use of style, rhetoric, and commonplaces in Greek poetry; and Aeschylus's place in the poetic tradition of Homer, Hesiod, and the elegiac poets. Practical information on staging and production is also included, as are maps and illustrations, a bibliography, indexes, and extensive cross-references between the seven plays. Forthcoming volumes will cover the works of Sophocles and Euripides.
The Tragic Paradox
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Author : Leonard Moss
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-03-24
The Tragic Paradox written by Leonard Moss and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity brought into play by an unrelenting drive for respect. Their patterns of speech, action, and image project a convergence of polarities, the convergence of integrity and radical change, of constancy and infidelity. A fanatical drive to fulfill a traditional code of masculine conduct produces the ironic consequence of de-forming that code—the tragic paradox. Tragic literature exploits irony. In Athenian and Shakespearean tragedy, self-righteous male or female aristocrats instigate their own disgrace, shame, and guilt, an un-expected diminishment. They are victimized by a magnificent obsession, a fantasy of un-alloyed authority or virtue, a dream of perfect self-sufficiency or trust. The authors of tragedy revised the concept of “nobility” to reflect the strange fact that grandeur elicits its own annulment. “Strengths by strengths do fail,” Shakespeare wrote in Coriolanus. The playwrights made this paradoxical predicament concrete with a narrative format that equates self-assertion with self-detraction, images that revolve between incredible reversals and provisional reinstatements, and speech that sounds impressively weighty but masks deception, disloyalty, cynicism, and insecurity. Three heroic philosophers, Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche, contributed invaluable but contrasting accounts of these literary languages (Aristotle's Poetics will be discussed in connection with Plato's attitude toward poetry). Their divergent descriptions can be reconciled to show that invalidations as well as affirmations—the transmission of contraries—are essential for tragic composition. An equivocal rhetoric, a mutable imagery, and an ironic progression convey the tortuous pursuit of personal preeminence or (in later tragic works by Kafka and Strindberg) family solidarity and communal safety. I am trying to integrate the disparate arguments offered by several notable theorists with technical procedures fashioned by the Athenian dramatists and recast by Shakespeare and other writers, procedures that articulate the tragic paradox.
An Ocean Tragedy
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
An Ocean Tragedy written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with categories.
Contemporary Adaptations Of Greek Tragedy
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Author : George Rodosthenous
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Contemporary Adaptations Of Greek Tragedy written by George Rodosthenous and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Drama categories.
Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars, Jan Fabre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Tadashi Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Andrei Serban, Nikos Charalambous, Bryan Doerries and Richard Schechner, among others, it offers readers a detailed study of the ways directors have responded to the original texts, refashioning them for different audiences, contexts and purposes. As such the volume will appeal to readers of theatre and performance studies, classics and adaptation studies, directors and theatre practitioners, and anyone who has ever wondered 'why they did it like that' when watching a stage production of an ancient Greek play. The volume Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy is divided in three sections: the first section - Global Perspectives - considers the work of a range of major directors from around the world who have provided new readings of Greek Tragedy: Peter Sellars and Athol Fugard in the US, Katie Mitchell in the UK, Theodoros Terzopoulos in Greece and Tadashi Suzuki and Yukio Ninagawa in Japan. Their work on a wide range of plays is analysed, including Electra, Oedipus the King, The Persians, Iphigenia at Aulis, and Ajax. Parts Two and Three – Directing as Dialogue with the Community and Directorial Re-Visions - focus on a range of productions of key plays from the repertoire, including Prometheus Landscape II, Les Atrides, The Trojan Women, The Bacchae, Antigone and The Suppliants, among others. In each, the varying approaches of different directors are analysed, together with a detailed investigation of the mise-en-scene. In considering each stage production, the authors raise issues of authenticity, contemporary resonances, translation, directorial control/auteurship and adaptation.
The Tragedy Of The Titanic
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Author : Paul Kupperberg
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Release Date : 2003
The Tragedy Of The Titanic written by Paul Kupperberg and has been published by Taylor & Francis US this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Recounts the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, events leading up to the tragedy, the inquiry that followed, and ongoing interest in the story and wreckage of the luxurious passenger ship called unsinkable.