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Author | : Gary Gygax |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 9781601251176 |
Swashbuckling duo Ferret and Raker are framed for a crime they did not commit, and are forced to invade castles, battle monsters, and face down a sorceress in their quest to prove their innocence.
Author | : Eugène Sue |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Feudalism |
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Author | : Anthony Hamilton (Count) |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : French fiction |
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Author | : Serinity Young |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019065970X |
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
Author | : John Fletcher |
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1797 |
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Author | : Arthur Murphy |
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Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1797 |
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Author | : May Agnes Fleming |
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Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Mary D. Sheriff |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022648324X |
In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Author | : Srisa Chandra Vasu |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : John Cowper Powys |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 057128700X |
Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a 'long romance about Odysseus in his extreme old age, hoisting sail once more from Ithaca'. As usual there is a large cast of human characters but Powys also gives life and speech to inanimates such as a stone pillar, a wooden club,and an olive shoot. The descent to the drowned world of Atlantis towards the end of the novel is memorably described, indeed, Powys himself called it 'the best part of the book'. Many of Powys's themes, such as the benefits of matriarchy, the wickedness of priests and the evils of modern science which condones vivisection are given full rein in this odd but compelling work.