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Author: María Rosa Menocal Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822314196 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 318
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With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history. It is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the "original" medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology.
Author: María Rosa Menocal Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822314196 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history. It is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the "original" medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology.
Author: Hazrie Halim Publisher: Hazrie Halim ISBN: 9671388612 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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Story 1: Melisa is an ordinary girl who moves into Dawn Mirage, a beautiful city located far away from her hometown. Traveling to Mirage High School from her home takes a lot of time, therefore she decides to wander around Dawn Mirage and find a place to stay. She lives in Rose Garden, a luxurious mansion. Melisa starts her new life living with four romantic young men under the same roof. As Melisa and the residents are doing pretty well after some time, they find something magical in the mansion's storage room. Their fate change as some of them are teleported into a vast world known as the 'Astral World'. Melisa becomes an alchemist, someone who makes potions with variety of effects and uses slight healing magic. The male members become offensive fighters, with each of them being unique and different. Being destined to rescue the sealed queen, the Rose Garden members begin their adventure to fight the seven invaders from seven different continents, as well as forging bonds with other heroic fighters that fights for the honor of their kingdom and for personal reason. Story 2: This story begins in Chapter 10. Astral World's renowned noble named Von Sozou spends his night with Lady Restia once every three months. Since Lady Restia's kingdom is now a sworn enemy to the Von Clan, they have to meet secretly at their usual rendezvous. Lady Restia prays that there will be peace between the two sides. Von Sozou embraces her, showing that he loves her very much. The next day, both Von Sozou and Lady Restia's kingdom are attacked by the fifth invader, Solaris. Her fire magic explosions and meteor crashes destroy everything in the two kingdom. Von Sozou is the only Von Clan member who survives after the deadly catastrophe. He rushes to Lady Restia's Kingdom with extreme speed, only to find out that she is already dead. Saddened and angered by the death of his loved one, Von Sozou join forces with other fighters to have his revenge against Solaris.
Author: Michael Livingston Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1466873310 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Susan Shwartz Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497611148 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 551
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In the tenth century, the center of the world is not Rome, but Byzantium--a glorious empire, upon which the sun never sets. Constantinople, the center of this mighty dynasty, is starting to unravel. The great kings and princes, the holy city, the affluence of the empire will be scattered to the winds. Attacked by the Turks on all sides, Byzantium looks to its emperor for deliverance. Leo Ducas, heir to the Byzantine crown, must fight for his inheritance, but he doesn’t truly know who his enemies are. Shunned by the citizens of Constantinople, Leo flees the city and great works are revealed to him. He learns of a realm that falls outside his Christian training, a realm of magic and wisdom...
Author: Sharon Olds Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307959902 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 114
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A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.
Author: Lawrence Terlizzese Publisher: Christian Publishing House ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 304
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Shards: Fragments of Mind presents a collection of aphorisms, epigrams, terse journal entries, notes, short vignettes, and pity statements, as well as longer segments, such as unpublished papers, blog posts, and essays meant to enlighten the reader and inspire the ability to think; none of these minutes are meant to be exhaustive, although no linear organization enforces itself on the text comprehensive themes will be discovered through comparable reading. Each entry stands alone and is presented in no particular order. I cover topics as varied as Extra Terrestrials and Christianity, cell phones, and Just War Criteria. The reader may start at any point from beginning to end or randomly, and various and sundry topics will begin to take shape in a comprehensive whole. The numbering system in this book is an attempt to impose some logical order and easy reference on an otherwise fragmented text. However, this is not unlike the way students learn through the online medium when looking up relevant subjects in short informational bursts proceeding in rapid-fire succession. I take as my literary examples the writing of Pascal in Pensées and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. Although I don’t pretend to be as sublime as they were, I do use their format as a template for this book.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 9780385477239 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in her Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations. What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga: the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before. Their lives--and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master--intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents. By turns brilliantly satiric, insightful, and profoundly moving, Shards Of Memory is a beautifully wrought tale of love and devotion, of family and faith, and of the complex nature of memory itself--a literary tour de force from one of the most distinguished novelists of our time.
Author: Darryl Anka Publisher: ISBN: 9781947532137 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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Willa Hillicrissing, a thirteen-year-old human-alien Hybrid with golden eyes and a wild mane of fox-fur hair, was raised amid the green forests and peaceful seaside setting of Port Dublin in Ireland where, as an apprentice to her Hybrid mentor, Holly Cotton, she takes her first steps on the path to becoming a Cryptic.
Author: Rod R. Surratt Publisher: Booklocker.com ISBN: 9781626463875 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 610
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SHARDS tells the story of two Royal Guardians who fail in the sole function of their office: to protect the lives of those to whom they are bound. While facing the futility of any retribution upon their enemies, these brothers Draco each strive to fulfill the vow sworn at their Induction - "Forever loyal and vigilant, as Guardian of your life: until your last dying breath...or my final sacrifice."
Author: María Rosa Menocal
Author: María Rosa Menocal
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