Reading the Past
Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-04
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521528849
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Reading the Past
Author: C. B. Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780520074316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains six previously published titles brought together in a single volume.
Runes
Author: Raymond Ian Page
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780520061149
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the ancient writing system used by Northmen, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings, and the inscriptions found in Scandanavia, the British Isles, and North America.
Steeped in Stories
Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1506469116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us. Award-winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories--escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds. Blending personal narrative, accessible literary criticism, and spiritual and moral formation, Perkins delves into novels by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary "uncles" and "aunts" that illuminate the virtuous, abundant life we still desire. These novels are not perfect, and Perkins honestly assesses their critical frailties and flaws related to race, culture, and power. Yet reading or rereading these books as adults can help us build virtue, unmask our vices, and restore our hope. Reconnecting with these stories from childhood isn't merely nostalgia. In an era of uncertainty and despair, they lighten our load and bring us much-needed hope.
Cuneiform
Author: C. B. F. Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780520061156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the writing system used from before 3000 BC to AD 75 by Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, and other Mesopotamian cultures.
Re/reading the past
Author: J.R. Martin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-11-17
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9027296022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Re/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timely in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial world where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to historians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
A Day of Fire
Author: Kate Quinn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-08-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0063310570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From six bestselling authors, including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn, comes a vividly imagined novel following the lives of those in ancient Pompeii on the fateful day Mount Vesuvius erupts. Pompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain’s wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii’s flourishing streets. An heiress dreads her wedding day, not knowing it will be swallowed by fire. An ex-legionary stakes his entire future on a gladiator bout destined never to be finished. A crippled senator welcomes death, until a tomboy on horseback comes to his rescue. A young mother faces an impossible choice for her unborn child as the ash falls. A priestess and a prostitute seek redemption and resurrection as the town is buried. Six authors bring to life overlapping stories of patricians and slaves, warriors and politicians, villains and heroes who cross each other’s paths during Pompeii’s fiery end. But who will escape, and who will be buried for eternity?
Historical Fiction
Author: Sarah L. Johnson
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2005-04-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 159158129X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive guide to the historical fiction genre that explains its general characteristics, its appeal to readers, benchmark and representative titles, and publishing trends.
Reading the Past Across Space and Time
Author: Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1137558857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created, translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers in the wake of the Second World War.
Japanese Ghost Stories
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0241381274
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits A Penguin Classic In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: "rokuro-kubi," whose heads separate from their bodies at night; "jikininki," or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless "mujina" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in Japanese Ghost Stories. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
