Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

English | 3 May 2007 | ISBN: 0521856752 | 440 Pages | PDF | 2 MB This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume’s title of Pierre...
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Shaggy Crowns Ennius’ Annales and Virgil’s Aeneid

2014 | ISBN: 0199681295 | English | 272 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Shaggy Crowns is the first book-length study in almost a hundred years of the relationship between Rome’s two great epic poems. Quintus Ennius was once the monumental epic poet of Republican Rome, “the father...
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Short Histories of Light

English | February 2, 2018 | ISBN: 0773552766 | EPUB | 112 Pages | 1 MB Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe...
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Single-Mom In the Hood I Am Trayvon Martin!

English | May 13th, 2012 | ASIN: B008DYJ5P6, ISBN: 1477468951 | 35 Pages | EPUB | 0.05 MB This powerful epic details what’s it like to be black in America. Through pain, love, and forgiveness learn something of what black Americans go through every day. Spiritually written to...
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Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore

ISBN: 1611494567, 1611496519 | 2013 | EPUB | 238 Pages | 2 MB Key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore include its frequently intensely political aspect and it preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and...
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Speaking to You: Contemporary Poetry and Public Address

English | ISBN: 0199657009 | 2012 | 280 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Speaking to You examines our pleasures in, accounts of, and uses for British poetry today. It explores the work of four important poets writing post-1960�CDon Paterson, Geoffrey Hill, W.S. Graham, and C.H. Sissons�Cin order...
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The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World’s Classics)

English/Fran?ais | May 15, 2008 | ISBN: 0199535582 | AZW3 | 464 Pages | 0.7 MB The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love,...
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid

2017 (Orig.1993) | ASIN: B01MS9002E, ISBN: 0151705291, 0156001268 | English | 559 Pages | EPUB | 0.9 MB Through Mandelbaum’s poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. Download: http://usafiles.net/2BZ2/94The_Metamorphoses_of_Ovid.epub
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The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry

English | January 28, 2003 | ISBN: 0141010975 | EPUB | 400 Pages | 1.8 MB There are almost as many definitions and different sorts of love as there are poets. Edited on the assumption that any poem which speaks of one human’s desire for another is a...
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