Death Under Wrathful Skies

Death Under Wrathful Skies
Author: Blythe Baker
Publsiher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798358005952

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A vicious killer haunts the streets of London and has selected a member of Victoria Sedgewick's household as his next victim. Still reeling from recent revelations surrounding her late husband's murder, can Victoria identify this new killer before he claims another life? The inquiry agent hired by her in-laws still delves into the Sedgewick family secrets, but when violence strikes close to home, Victoria must take matters into her own hands.

A Chaplet of Verse by California Catholic Writers

A Chaplet of Verse by California Catholic Writers
Author: Denis Oliver Crowley,Charles Anthony Doyle
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1889
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: STANFORD:36105010423098

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San Francisco is featured in the poem "At Point Lobos," by Chas. Warren Stoddard (p. 25-25). Other California scense include Mount Hamilton, Solano, Donner Lake, "In the Redwoods" and "In the Sierras."

Shakespeare and the Environment A Dictionary

Shakespeare and the Environment  A Dictionary
Author: Sophie Chiari
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781350110489

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While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

The new encyclop dia or Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences

The new encyclop  dia  or  Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences
Author: Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 770
Release: 1807
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OXFORD:600046991

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The New Encyclopaedia Or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

The New Encyclopaedia  Or  Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Author: Alexander Aitchison
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1807
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: NLI:2793536-50

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The Monthly Magazine Or British Register

The Monthly Magazine  Or  British Register
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1810
Genre: British periodicals
ISBN: NYPL:33433081741005

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The Deaths of Louis XVI

The Deaths of Louis XVI
Author: Susan Dunn
Publsiher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691224916

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The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.

Homer s Odyssey and the Near East

Homer s Odyssey and the Near East
Author: Bruce Louden
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781139494908

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The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old Testament. Consideration of how much of the Odyssey focuses on non-heroic episodes - hosts receiving guests, a king disguised as a beggar, recognition scenes between long-separated family members - reaffirms the Odyssey's parallels with the Bible. In particular the book argues that the Odyssey is in a dialogic relationship with Genesis, which features the same three types of myth that comprise the majority of the Odyssey: theoxeny, romance (Joseph in Egypt), and Argonautic myth (Jacob winning Rachel from Laban). The Odyssey also offers intriguing parallels to the Book of Jonah, and Odysseus' treatment by the suitors offers close parallels to the Gospels' depiction of Christ in Jerusalem.