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God's last breath
\"Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the exhilarating conclusion to his Bring Down Heaven series. The great demon Khoth-Kapira has broken free of his prison and taken his first steps upon the mortal world. And he owes it all to Lenk. Believing that the demon will mend a broken world that the gods have ignored, Lenk serves as a reluctant champion to Khoth-Kapira's cause. But as the desperate and fearful flock to Khoth-Kapira's banner, begging for salvation, Lenk begins to doubt his patron's good intentions. The city of Cier'Djaal, meanwhile, has become the battlefield for the last great war. And as the mortal races prepare to tear each other apart, none are aware of the march of the great demon who comes to tame them. At the tip of a spear or beneath the heel of demons, the reign of mortals ends\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Translations of Power
Elizabeth J. Bellamy here casts new theoretical light on the Renaissance genre of the dynastic epic. Drawing upon Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to illuminate the emergence of an epic \"subjecthood,\" she focuses on Virgil'sAeneid, Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and Spenser'sFaerie Queene in an attempt to demonstrate how the operations of the unconscious may be interpreted within narrative history.
Bellamy first evaluates the psychoanalytic approach to epic as a possible alternative to the new historicism. Turning to theAeneid, she discusses Freud's'neurotic'relation to Rome as a founding image for a historical unconscious. She then interweaves a genealogy of epic subjecthood with the motif of the translatio imperii, likening the'translations of power'that constitute the translatio imperii to extended meditations on the fate of Troy throughout literary history. According to Bellamy, the epic genre manifests a repeated displacement and repression of its Trojan origins, and the doomed city of Troy represents the locus of epic's own narrative narcissism. Offering provocative analyses of epic temporality and of the function of the death drive in epic narrative, she concludes that dynastic epic may be seen as a structure of narcissistic desire which undermines the capacity of the epic to embody a fully articulated historical subject.
Translations of Power will enliven current debates among scholars and students of Renaissance culture, literary theory, gender studies, and psychoanalytic criticism.
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Friendly fire
\"In the most dangerous district of the city, the Fifth Ward, Rem and Torval have been perfecting their good cop, bad cop routine while protecting residents from drug-dealing orcs, mind-controlling elves, uncooperative mages, and humans being typical humans. But when a perplexing case of arson leads to a series of gruesome, unsolvable murders, the two partners must challenge their own assumptions and loyalties if they are to preserve their partnership, wrest justice from the chaos, and keep their ward from tearing itself apart. \"A brilliant premise, wonderfully told. A city that breathes, and heroes you can't help but root for.\" -- Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld \"A glorious tour through fantasy's seamier side. A wilder ride than Middle Earth, and you'll love every minute of it!\" -- Jon Hollins, author of the Dragon Lords series For more from Dale Lucas, check out The Fifth Ward: First Watch\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Antología comentada de la Ilíada
Se recogen en esta nueva Antología veinticuatro pasajes escogidos de la Ilíada, que pretenden ofrecer un panorama representativo del conjunto de la obra y de sus distintos tipos de escenas; cada uno va precedido de una introducción contextualizadora, que presenta y valora el pasaje ubicándolo dentro del canto en el que aparece, y va seguido de un conciso comentario sobre el texto griego que, aparte de aclarar cuestiones de tipo gramatical, quiere ser ante todo un comentario literario que ponga el foco en las virtudes poéticas y en el valor espiritual de la epopeya. El volumen se completa con dos apéndices, uno gramatical, sobre los rasgos principales del rico dialecto homérico, y otro métrico, sobre el hexámetro y la dimensión rítmica de la obra.Sin perjuicio de que el lector general pueda sacar algún provecho de su lectura, el objetivo es que el estudiante de griego pueda familiarizarse de forma rápida y fiable con la lengua, el estilo y, en definitiva, con el irresistible atractivo de la obra mayor de la literatura griega antigua, que, veintisiete siglos después de su creación, sigue siendo tan sorprendente y viva como cuando se compuso.Jorge Bergua Cavero es profesor de griego en la Universidad de Málaga. Su último libro publicado es La voz cantada. De la épica a los cantautores (Comares, 2019).
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Bad faith
\"Guardians of the Galaxy meets the Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure. Will and his comrades went to war to overthrow the reign of dragons, winning battle after battle, and acclaim as conquering heroes. But now they've angered the gods, and may just need the dragons to help them this time..\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Sky-Blue Wolves : a novel of the Change
\"S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. In this new world of emperors and kings, new leaders emerged, making the world their own. Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess âOrlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival--the former western North America. But the Change opened many doors, and through them Powers strong and strange and terrible came, to walk once more among humankind. With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, âOrlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan--the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The History of the Sevarambians
Reminiscent of More's Utopia and Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Denis Veiras's History of the Sevarambians is one of the great utopian novels of the seventeenth century. Set in Australia, this rollicking adventure story comes complete with a shipwreck, romantic tales, religious fraud, magical talismans, and supernatural animals. The current volume contains two versions of Veiras's story: the original English and the 1738 English translation of the expanded French version. Veiras's work was well known in its own time and has been translated into a number of languages, including German, French, Russian, and Japanese, while the English version has been largely forgotten. The book has been read to teach a variety of political doctrines, and also has been cited as an early development in the history of ideas about religious toleration. It reveals a great deal about early modern English, Dutch, and French attitudes toward other cultures. One of the first utopian writings to qualify as a novel, it can be interpreted as a metaphor for human life, in all its complexity and ambiguity.
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Jagannath : stories
\"A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers around the world. Originally published by the tiny press Cheeky Frawg--the passion project of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer--Jagannath has been celebrated by readers and critics alike, with rave reviews from major outlets and support from lauded peers like China Miéville and even Ursula K. Le Guin herself. These are stories in which fairies haunt quiet towns, and an immortal being discovers the nature of time--stories in which anything is possible.\"-Amazon.com
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American Cinema of the 1920s
During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were transformed into major corporations, hiring a host of craftsmen and technicians including cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, and set designers. The birth of the star system supported the meteoric rise and celebrity status of actors including Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and Rudolph Valentino while black performers (relegated to \"race films\") appeared infrequently in mainstream movies. The classic Hollywood film style was perfected and significant film genres were established: the melodrama, western, historical epic, and romantic comedy, along with slapstick, science fiction, and fantasy.
In ten original essays,American Cinema of the 1920sexamines the film industry's continued growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
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