Resultaten voor 'mary boyle'
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Horse Tales
"Horse Tales" by Mary Boyle is a collection of short stories celebrating the enduring bond between humans and horses. These charming tales, categorized as juvenile fiction, offer heartwarming glimpses into the lives of these magnificent animals. Explore a world where horses are companions, partners, and heroes. Perfect for readers of all ages who appreciate classic animal stories, this collection captures the spirit of a bygone era with simple language and timeless themes. Dive into a world where the love of horses is paramount. "Horse Tales" is a testament to the enduring appeal of well-told stories and the special connection we share with the animal kingdom. This meticulously prepared print edition preserves the original text, offering a classic reading experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Epic! Homer and the Nibelungenlied in Translation
The exhibition 'Epic! Homer and the Nibelungenlied in Translation' in the Taylor Institution Library, Oxford, reveals the different stages, trends, key impulses, and idiosyncratic approaches to the translation and adaptation of Homer and the Nibelungenlied. Showcasing a range of material from the Taylor Institution Library's collections, alongside additions from the Bodleian Library, and from private collections, 'Epic!' explores the deeply entwined history between these two cultural touchstones.This entanglement began with the judgement of the Swiss critic Johann Jakob Bodmer 'Dieses Gedicht hat etwas iliadisches' - 'There is something Iliad-like about this poem', who set the tone for public perceptions of the Nibelungenlied shortly after its rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. With these words Bodmer prompted future generations to look at the medieval German epic in terms of Homer, some of whom grappled with this idea quite willingly, others reluctantly. As late as the 1970s, when the German writer Franz Fühmann attempted to re-envision the Nibelungenlied in the light of national identity in the GDR, he found it necessary first of all to distance himself from the deeply entrenched trope of the 'German Iliad'. What does this trope mean exactly? What are the implications of looking at the Nibelungenlied through the prism of the Homeric epics - and vice versa? In what way did it affect dealing with the texts, with ideas about the epic and ideas about things which have been tied to it in different ways - about gender, nation, violence? And how do these readings still inform our world today?The books featured in this exhibition tell a story, not simply of translation, but of the various attempts by authors to assert ownership of these epics for different national and pre-national identities, for specific ideas of masculinity and femininity, for militaristic agendas and racist ideologies, and also, more recently, for feminist and queer causes. Building on the 2022 exhibition 'Violent Victorian Medievalism' curated by Mary Boyle, 'Epic!' also shines particular light on adaptations that have been created for children, and to the fraught topic of women and violence.Three essays by Mary Boyle, Philip Flacke, and Timothy Powell discuss various stages of the epics' reception in four centuries where these ideological battles have been fought. These essays are accompanied by two extensive appendices that chronicle the inexhaustible possibilities of telling the same story, as well as the often bizarre and sometimes frightening endorsements and critiques of comparing the Nibelungenlied to Homer. The centre piece of the volume is the richly illustrated catalogue for the exhibition at the Taylor Institution Library in five sections: 1: Epic? 2: Translating Verse. 3: Mapping Myth. 4: Powerful Women. 5: The Pierced Body. 6: Violent Revenge. Concluding the volume is a catalogue of the Homeric Fragments in the collection of the Bodleian Library, curated by Nigel Wilson and Peter Tóth.This book is part of the 'Cultural Memory' series of the 'Treasures of the Taylorian', which aims to bring the books from the collections into dialogue with wider topics outside. It accompanies the workshop 'The Reading and Reception of the Homeric Poems and the Nibelungenlied in Germany and Europe from the Eighteenth Century to the Present', co-hosted by the Meran Academy and Oxford Medieval Studies.
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The Broken Road
Have you ever felt like you are the only one going through something? You are alone, hurting, and the harder you try, the bigger the circumstances get? Me too! I have walked many unwise decisions or circumstances not in my control, but I am here to tell you that there is a God that never leaves or forsakes us. My hope is that you will find solace in the outcome of how God's healing hand took my broken vessel and molded me into His vessel, and that you, too, will know He is with you.
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Violent Victorian Medievalism
medievalism, n. 'the reception, interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages in post-medieval cultures' Louise D'Arcens, 2016 A fascination with the Middle Ages shaped public life in the nineteenth century - and in exchange, it reshaped the Middle Ages into a form still dominant today. Englishness became inextricably connected with a reimagined medieval past expressed through art, architecture, and literature. English traits and values were traced to a Golden Age of chivalry, and a national character was anchored in a heroic so-called Germanic past. But chivalry and heroism necessarily exist within a martial context, and violence already permeated the geopolitics, literature, and culture of Britain's 'imperial century'. Medieval or medieval-adjacent literature offered another respectable vehicle for violence. In the 1830s, Thomas Carlyle published an essay drawing the nation's attention to a medieval epic, 'belong[ing] especially to us English Teutones'. This was the Nibelungenlied, a story of love, betrayal, vengeance, and hopeless heroism. It was decreed a potential 'German Iliad', and - like the Iliad - its body count was vast. With its frequent scenes of graphic violence and potential for ethnonationalist identity construction, the narrative incorporated various national pursuits for the Victorians. Publication of adaptations only gathered pace after the premiere of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, and the subject matter maintained its popularity right up to the First World War. The resulting adaptions were aimed at all age groups and many were eye-catchingly illustrated. This material was so widely reinterpreted in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) and so emblematic for notions of a so-called Germanic identity, that it provides a useful prism through which to visualise the wider implications of violent Victorian (and Edwardian) medievalism. Children's literature of this period routinely matched a reticence about sex with scenes of extreme violence, often while simultaneously smuggling in an educational message. That message was unequivocal here, whether for children or for adults: this narrative is your cultural inheritance. The images in this exhibition reveal themselves to be clear forerunners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century medievalism, as well as mapping on to more recent trends in violent medievalism and popular culture.
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Karma
KARMA was written to enlighten the populace as to the reasons behind the economic meltdown of 2008. The story seeks to entertain while imparting the financial information so the reader will not have to prop their eyelids open with toothpicks. A couple of super users design a super computer and hack into the banksters accounts that caused the meltdown and steal back the money.
€ 13,70