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Cy makes a friend
\"Cy is a Cyclops who knows how to make just about anything--except a friend. So Cy practices friend-making skills and then sets off. When beaming confidence, making eye contact, and winking don't work, he comes up with another plan: knowing that it's nice to share, he builds a chariot for two--for himself and his friend-to-be\"--Amazon.com.
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AFRICAN CHARIOTEERS: A NOTE ON SOPHOCLES, ELECTRA 701–2
The nameless old servant, labelled Paedagogus in the scholia, who accompanies Orestes and Pylades in Sophocles Electra, displays an enviable narrative talent in fulfilling the instruction to describe Orestes fatal accident in a chariot race at the Pythian games. This magnificent fiction offers an unappreciated example of Sophocles use of matter derived from Herodotus.
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Leaving Independence
\"Seasoned wagon master Virgil Grissom prepares to lead a new group of families westward across the Oregon Trail. Among them are struggling farmer Matt Moran, his wife Katie, and their three small children. In spite of the long, treacherous journey ahead, Grissom is confident that this solid, hard-working farmer and his family are tough enough to endure the harsh elements, the rugged terrain, and the occasional run-in with hostile tribes. But he's not so sure about the farmer's younger brother Clay, who plans to catch up with them along the trail. Alone. Which has Grissom worried.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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From triumph to tragedy: visualizing war in Vietnamese film and fiction
This article explores ways in which post-war Vietnamese cinema and literature visualize the conflict and trauma of the American War in Vietnam. As Vietnamese writers and directors search for new creative forms to capture adequately the complexity of war experiences, they increasingly remove the conflict from the paradigms of triumph and victory to explore it instead within the paradigms of loss, suffering and trauma. By exposing and validating multifaceted individual war memories, they mount an effective challenge to the established official canon of war literature and cinema in Vietnam and serve as a powerful means of dissent. This article gives special consideration to the Vietnamese film Sống trong sợ hãi [Living in Fear], released in 2005, which attempts to reconstruct the genre of war film in Vietnam by accentuating humanism and downplaying nationalism and ideology.
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Images of Interracialism in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Racial clues have always been written into crime fiction. Sherlock Holmes was as much an anthropologist as he was a detective. The venerable investigator of Britain's imperial empire could as easily differentiate between the footprints of a Hindu or Muslim as he could identify the Chinese origins of a tattoo by its color. Although these types of racialized depictions are no longer mainstays of the genre, race still plays a central role in many contemporary works of crime fiction. Modem writers have brought new perspectives on race, justice, and social inequalities to contemporary crime stories, infusing the crime narrative with critical race, feminist, post-colonial, gay/lesbian, and other perspectives. Today's authors are just as likely to find evil in individual villains as they are in racism, sexism, corporate greed, or political institutions. Crime fiction has thus become more and more a platform for social commentary as well as entertainment. Here, Abdel-Monem examines how ideologies of interracialism inhabit contemporary works of crime fiction.
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Concerning the So-Called One and Only God, \as Told by Anu the All-Seeing Lord of the World-Covering Sky Vault\
A short story is presented.
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Through a Screen Darkly: Penetrating Layers of Illusion in Text and Film—an Italian Perspective
A primary fictional character steps out into a secondary fictional status of flesh and blood on the fictional audience's side of the screen, acting out the power of cinema as the projection of fiction on film generates characters accepted as real people by the audience within the film. [...] the power of a supposedly unreal being suddenly become \"real\" can cause a physical reaction in those present: the woman faints once she sees Chariot in flesh and blood on the street; a woman in the audience of Udecka faints when the doctor on the screen says to the teacher \"Drown them all!\"; the singer, Baxter's fiancée, faints when she touches Cecilia; and one of the actresses in Juztrenka falls to the ground like a stone once she timorously touches Baxter with a finger to assure herself of his physical existence.
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\Verbal Sludge\: Mud and Malleability in the Novels of Patrick White
Clements examines the personal correspondence and fiction of Patrick White in terms of his distinctly mystical religious beliefs. He observes that White repeatedly suggests that God is found not in churches, but by grubbing in muckheaps. In such places the \"purity\" of individual distinctness is lost, and one experiences a partial union--necessarily imperfect--with the divine. White's experience of self-dissolution in the storm textured much of his work, including Voss in which the title character experiences a similar revelation: \"he was running into crannies, and sucked into the mouths of the earth, and disputed, and distributed.\"
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