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Author : Henry Colin Gray Matthew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Goss-Griffiths written by Henry Colin Gray Matthew and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108127436
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Literature on Screen written by Martin M. Winkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin M. Winkler argues for a new approach to various creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. He examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history, exploring, for example, how ancient rhetorical principles regarding the emotions apply to moving images and how Aristotle's perspective on thrilling plot-turns can recur on screen. He also interprets several popular films, such as 300 and Nero, and analyzes works by international directors, among them Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex, Medea), Jean Cocteau (The Testament of Orpheus), Mai Zetterling (The Girls), Lars von Trier (Medea), Arturo Ripstein (Such Is Life), John Ford (westerns), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho), and Spike Lee (Chi-Raq). The book demonstrates the undiminished vitality of classical myth and literature in our visual media, as with screen portrayals of Helen of Troy. It is important for all classicists and scholars and students of film, literature, and history.

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732927
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merlin written by Stephen Knight and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose immensely popular History of the Kings of Britain (1138) transmitted the story of Merlin to Europe at large. He covers French and German as well as Anglophone elements of the myth and brings the story up to the present with discussions of a globalized Merlin who finds his way into popular literature, film, television, and New Age philosophy. Knight argues that Merlin in all his guises represents a conflict basic to Western societies-the clash between knowledge and power. While the Merlin story varies over time, the underlying structural tension remains the same whether it takes the form of bard versus lord, magician versus monarch, scientist versus capitalist, or academic versus politician. As Knight sees it, Merlin embodies the contentious duality inherent to organized societies. In tracing the applied meanings of knowledge in a range of social contexts, Knight reveals the four main stages of the Merlin myth: Wisdom (early Celtic British), Advice (medieval European), Cleverness (early modern English), and Education (worldwide since the nineteenth century). If a wizard can be captured within the pages of a book, Knight has accomplished the feat.

Author : Arthur James Wells
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Total Pages : 2142 pages
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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 2142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society written by London and Middlesex Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the Society's proceedings, reports, list of members, etc.

Author : British Academy
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of National Biography written by British Academy and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

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Total Pages : 876 pages
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Author : Alan Edwin Day
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Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book The Reference Sources Handbook written by Alan Edwin Day and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to sources of reference material has been full revised to incorporate the mass of new electronic formats now available on the market.

Author : Andrew P. Wickens
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317744837
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Brain written by Andrew P. Wickens and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience. This is the first time a history of the brain has been written in a narrative way, emphasizing how our understanding of the brain and nervous system has developed over time, with the development of the disciplines of anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, psychology and neurosurgery. The book covers: beliefs about the brain in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome the Medieval period, Renaissance and Enlightenment the nineteenth century the most important advances in the twentieth century and future directions in neuroscience. The discoveries leading to the development of modern neuroscience gave rise to one of the most exciting and fascinating stories in the whole of science. Written for readers with no prior knowledge of the brain or history, the book will delight students, and will also be of great interest to researchers and lecturers with an interest in understanding how we have arrived at our present knowledge of the brain.