By Ewart Oakeshott

Describes the guns and armor utilized by infantrymen in the course of the four-hundred-year interval of invasions, wars, migrations, and unrest in Europe that the break-up of the solid styles of the Roman Empire.

By H. J. Rose

ISBN-10: 0203421760

ISBN-13: 9780203421765

ISBN-10: 0415046017

ISBN-13: 9780415046015

During this new and considerably revised version of H. J. Rose's vintage survey and research of the evolution and culture of Greek fable, Robin demanding provides a variety of positive factors which convey the paintings updated with modern scholarship and tackle the desires of students.* a brand new preface analysing and contextualising H. J. Rose's angle to fable* a brand new bankruptcy dedicated to the epic and different poetic assets of the myths, narrative prose mythography and many of the kinds of rationalisation* a brand new bankruptcy analyzing the connection among different myths of Gods and heroes, with genealogical tables. Robin demanding indicates how the myths of person households and detailed destinations carry jointly to shape a coherent pseudo-historical development* largely revises and simplifies notes* a brand new annotated bibliography.A guide of Greek Mythology provides a worthwhile and straightforward consultant to the myths and legends of old Greece - their genesis, resources, improvement and value.

By Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN-10: 1562542818

ISBN-13: 9781562542818

To be used IN faculties AND LIBRARIES basically. This 80-page edition has been painstakingly edited to keep the integrity of the unique paintings, and to express a feeling of the author's sort and the novel's subject matter. A low studying point assures good fortune and stimulates a wish for additional exploration of this vintage story.

By Roderick McGillis

ISBN-10: 0313058024

ISBN-13: 9780313058028

ISBN-10: 0313321205

ISBN-13: 9780313321207

The shut of a century invitations either retrospection and prognostication. As a interval of transition, it additionally brings a feeling of uncertainty, finality, and apocalypticism. those emotions stem from quite a few occasions, corresponding to political turmoil, medical developments, and social swap. As can be anticipated, literature displays such adjustments and the emotions they engender. yet possibly extra strangely, kid's literature is mainly delicate to such concerns, and fiction for kids usually struggles with darkish and ugly matters. This ebook examines fin de sicle tensions in nineteenth- and 20th-century kid's literature from round the world.Each bankruptcy is written through knowledgeable contributor, and the amount levels over a disparate number of subject matters. those contain poetry, sequence books, pacifist fiction, gender matters, faith and literature, eco-criticism, minority stories, humor and the Holocaust, myth and technology fiction, and laptop tradition. In exploring those concerns when it comes to kid's literature, the individuals display the transferring nature of our values and the realm within which we are living. worldwide in nature, the chapters examine kid's literature from such locations as Germany, Holland, the uk, Australia, and the USA.

By Estella Lauter

ISBN-10: 0253203252

ISBN-13: 9780253203250

"... amazing paintings of scholarship..." -- unheard of Human event

By Giles Morgan

ISBN-10: 1429430737

ISBN-13: 9781429430739

ISBN-10: 1904048579

ISBN-13: 9781904048572

Pocket necessities is a dynamic sequence of books which are concise, full of life, and simple to learn. jam-packed with evidence in addition to specialist evaluations, each one booklet has all of the key info you must find out about such renowned subject matters as movie, tv, cult fiction, historical past, and extra. on the center of the myths and legends surrounding the English icon lies the tale of an early Christian martyr persecuted via the Roman Empire. yet England is just one state to have followed this soldier saint as their buyer; the cult of St. George is astonishingly common. His heroic fight opposed to the dragon should be visible because the bravery of anyone Christian or because the everlasting conflict among stable and evil. but nearer exam exhibits transparent parallels among his conflict and that of prior pre-Christian heroes, akin to Perseus and Beowulf. St. George is usually pointed out with the Islamic hero Al Khidr and has been heavily associated with the golf green guy of pre-Christian delusion. the following, Giles Morgan seems to be on the many features of St. George as multi-cultural icon and hero.

By Galit Hasan-Rokem

ISBN-10: 0804732264

ISBN-13: 9780804732260

ISBN-10: 0804732272

ISBN-13: 9780804732277

Internet of existence weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish tradition within the Palestine of past due antiquity at the warp of a unique, breathtakingly tragic, and stylish rabbinic textual content, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that shape the center of the ebook are educated by way of a number of theoretical paradigms hardly dropped at endure on rabbinic literature: structural research of mythologies and folktales, performative methods to textual construction, feminist conception, psychoanalytical research of tradition, cultural feedback, and people narrative style analysis.The proposal of context because the hermeneutic foundation for literary interpretation reactivates the written textual content and subverts the hierarchical buildings with which it's been frequently pointed out. This e-book reinterprets rabbinic tradition as an enviornment of a number of dialogues that traverse conventional strategies of id concerning gender, country, faith, and territory. The author’s method is permeated by means of the concept that scholarly writing approximately old texts is invigorated via an existential hermeneutic rooted within the universality of human event. She hence lodges to private adventure as an idiom of verbal exchange among writer and reader and among humans of our time and of the earlier. This study recognizes the overlap of poetic and analytical language in addition to the language of study and daily life.In eliciting people narrative discourses contained in the rabbinic textual content, the e-book demanding situations conventional perspectives in regards to the social foundation that engendered those texts. It indicates the subversive strength of the constitutive texts of Jewish tradition from overdue antiquity to the current via declaring the inherent multi-vocality of the textual content, including to the conventionally stated synagogue and academy the house, undefined, and different deepest and public socializing associations.

By Carolyn Daniel

ISBN-10: 0203959752

ISBN-13: 9780203959756

ISBN-10: 0415976421

ISBN-13: 9780415976428

Exploring the way in which nutrition is used to seduce, excitement and coerce not just the characters inside kid's literature, but additionally its readers, this publication tackles a few gripping questions about the volume and caliber of the nutrients featured in kid's fiction, akin to: why are feasting fantasies so typical, specifically within the British classics? What precisely is their entice ancient and modern readers? What do literary foodstuff occasions do to readers? Is foodstuff the intercourse of kid's literature? the topic of youngsters consuming is compelling, yet why is it that tales approximately young ones being eaten should not in basic terms frightening but in addition tremendously desirable? masking well timed subject matters akin to early life weight problems and anorexia, and searching at classics texts from "Little purple driving Hood" to "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", the writer demonstrates how kid's literature mostly makes an attempt to control early life consuming practices and purely award subjectivity and corporation to these characters who display 'normal' appetites. a superb and designated enquiry into the functionality of meals in kid's literature, this publication is an important contribution to the fields of either kid's literature and the growing to be interdisciplinary area of nutrition, tradition and society.

By Rane Willerslev

ISBN-10: 0520252179

ISBN-13: 9780520252172

ISBN-10: 1429494603

ISBN-13: 9781429494601

This can be an insightful, hugely unique ethnographic interpretation of the looking lifetime of the Yukaghirs, a little-known team of indigenous humans within the higher Kolyma zone of northeastern Siberia. Basing his examine on firsthand event with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev specializes in the sensible implications of dwelling in a "hall-of-mirrors" world--one inhabited by means of people, animals, and spirits, all of whom are understood to be never-ending mimetic doubles of each other. during this international humans inhabit a betwixt-and-between country within which their souls are either substance and nonsubstance, either physique and soul, either their very own person selves and reincarnated others. Hunters are therefore either human and the animals they imitate, which forces them to guide a sophisticated path among the power to go beyond distinction and the need of retaining identification.

By Biren Bonnerjea

ISBN-10: 0810335727

ISBN-13: 9780810335721