Ashes And Roses Of A Millennium

Polidore is a little book about little people in the dark recesses of show business. Both of the story's principals are real. Lenny, the more contemporary of the two, is somewhat more fictionalized than the title character, Polidore. Often, when being interviewed, theatrical celebrities will confess that they occasionally suffer from stage fright. Whether they actually do or not is secondary to the reaction it evokes: it humanizes them. We relate to them, at least briefly, because they've revealed a flaw. The two men whose lives are examined in Polidore are affected by a condition less understandable than opening night jitters. It could aptly be termed "reverse stage fright"; the fear of stepping out of the spotlight. In doing so, they are plunged into a terrifying labyrinth of confu­sion and past horrors. Are they, then, the forerunners of the "Evil Clown" that today's media titillates our darker senses with? The greasepainted gargoyle with a basement full of corpses? No. With one poignantly psychotic exception they killed only the things they loved most, themselves.

As the main character lives an entire millennium, he witnesses firsthand various milestones of forgotten generations such as the Crusades, the Renaissance, and the devastating World Wars in an emotionally charged way that no textbook could ever describe. Savor the deepest hopes and fears of well-known individuals of ages past. Unveil the delicate humanity within history's heroes and villains, who are not much different than us. History is no longer a detached subject, but an intimate force like a grandparent's weary heart and unconditional love, with an inextinguishable promise of hope for the future. As the pages unfurl, you will learn things you may not even know about yourself. Discover the simplest but most profound secrets of life. Discover how your very existence was ultimately determined a thousand years ago, and how you, yourself have been carving the next millennium since the day you were born, engraving your own name in the essence of time itself. Ashes and Roses of a Millennium holds a legacy of love that will surely provoke a deep and intimate passion for history in the young and old alike.

Tales for a New Millennium brings Ovid's Metamorphoses to life on the streets of New York, Rome, and London. The modern gods and goddesses are emblematic of the same blinding forces of power, lust, and hubris that plagued their illustrious predecessors of yore. Each Ovidian transformation reminds readers that they are on the same trajectory as Phaeton as he attempts to steer an uncontrollable, thunderous chariot, which mirrors the pulsating rhythms of life within The Twenty-First Century.

This is the first volume to provide a wide range of postcolonial interpretations of and commentaries upon significant texts in the Hebrew Bible. The volume intersects with the work of the key theorists in postcolonial studies such as Fanon, Senghor, Said and Spivak as well as with scholars such as Sugirtharajah, Kwok Pui-lan, and Segovia who have applied this theory to biblical studies. Texts have been chosen specifically for their relevance to postcolonial discourse, rather than seeking to cover each biblical document. This volume is designed to demonstrate how historical criticism, postmodernism, and the important concerns of postcolonial readings may be integrated to obtain an informed explanation of the Hebrew Bible and the writings of early Judaism. The chapters are written by scholars who represent a spectrum of national, indigenous, and diasporic contexts. Taken together these perspectives and the interpretations they yield represent a continued expansion of the manner in which Old Testament texts are read and interpreted through postcolonial lenses, reminding readers that the interpretive trajectories of these texts are almost inexhaustible. As such the volume serves as not only an addition to ongoing scholarship on postcolonialism but also as an expansion of the horizon for dialogue.

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes sorted by genre click here. 01

Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana’a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East –– which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence –– but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.