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Author : Parvīn Iʻtiṣāmī
Release : 1985
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis A Nightingale's Lament by : Parvīn Iʻtiṣāmī
Download or read book A Nightingale's Lament written by Parvīn Iʻtiṣāmī. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon R. Green
Release : 2004-04-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Nightingale's Lament by : Simon R. Green
Download or read book Nightingale's Lament written by Simon R. Green. This book was released on 2004-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name’s John Taylor. I work the garish streets of the Nightside—the hidden heart of London where it’s always three A.M., where in human creatures and otherworldly gods walk side by side in the endless darkness of the soul. I have a talent for finding things. People…property…no problem. But now I’m after something different. A local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and I’ve been hired to find out the reason. I’m also wondering why her suicide—prone fans think she has a voice to die for. Literally. To get the truth, I’ll have to lend an ear to the most enticingly beautiful and deadly voice in all of the Nightside—and survive.
Author : Jeni Williams
Release : 1997-07-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Interpreting Nightingales by : Jeni Williams
Download or read book Interpreting Nightingales written by Jeni Williams. This book was released on 1997-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry.
Author : Margaret Alexiou
Release : 2002
Genre : Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Book Rating : 579/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition by : Margaret Alexiou
Download or read book The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition written by Margaret Alexiou. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great diversity of sources are integrated to offer a comprehensive and penetrating synthesis.
Author : Andreas Höfele
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity by : Andreas Höfele
Download or read book Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity written by Andreas Höfele. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both. From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions of the divine have included the power to check and contain as well as to unleash chaos as a sanction for the violation of social and ethical norms. Yet chaos has also been construed as a necessary supplement to order, a region of pure potentiality at the base of reality that provides the raw material of creation or even constitutes a kind of alternative order itself. As such, it generates its own peculiar 'formations of the formless'. Focusing on the connection between the cosmic and the political, this volume traces the continuities and re-conceptualizations of chaos from the ancient Near East to early modern Europe across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts. One of the questions it poses is how these pre-modern 'chaos theories' have survived into and reverberate in our own time.
