Explore tips, opinions, and features on The death of Virgil Broch sold at 115 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
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During the last eighteen hours of his life the Roman poet Virgil debates destroying the manuscript of his poem the Aeneid
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Virgil Daltons been the sheriff of Hayward for over a dozen years and has lived there all his life Its a sleepy Southwestern town where everybody pretty much knows everybody Buddy Hinton is just a good ole boy So when he disappears after a night drinking at the Black Bull his friends just figure he went down to Mexico to find himself a girlfriend and will come back eventually Until the sheriff discovers Buddy floating in one of his stock tanks
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Paschalis offers a new reading of the whole Aeneid based on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm of Aeneid 1 to the death of Turnus and reveals a sustained pervasive and deepgoing exploitation of the meaning of names
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Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas struggle against the Latins In it Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas the great Latin warcouncil Turnus plan to ambush Aeneas and the aristeia and death of Camilla K W Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as Virgils Iliad In his introduction and commentary he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad Gransden shows how despite his adoption of the epic form Virgils style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism Callimachean theory and the poetry of the neoteroi In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique
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The official biography the man who brought his own personal style to the world of industrial design from automobiles to powerboats Some 50 years after his design masterpieces wrested styling leadership away from General Motors Harley Earl nbsp Thirty four years after his untimely death Virgil Exners name still remains inexorably linked to the Chrysler Corporation in the minds of car enthusiasts worldwide For an all too brief period Exners name epitomized all that was great and exciting in America His thrilling automobile designs from the midfifties took the world by storm and put Chrysler at the top His work was nothing less than a revolution Exner introduced to Chrysler first with his idea cars then with production models vehicles that were wanted for their looks but at the same time were soundly engineered automobiles that carried classic proportions and gave the illusion of movement even while stationary His design of the 1947 Studebaker established the design pattern for all modern cars and was a huge success With many previously unseen works of art and family photos among the 150 color images throughout this is a unique and fascinating insight into a pivotal player in the development of the modern automobile
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The official biography the man who brought his own personal style to the world of industrial design from automobiles to powerboats Some 50 years after his design masterpieces wrested styling leadership away from General Motors Harley Earl nbsp Thirty four years after his untimely death Virgil Exners name still remains inexorably linked to the Chrysler Corporation in the minds of car enthusiasts worldwide For an all too brief period Exners name epitomized all that was great and exciting in America His thrilling automobile designs from the midfifties took the world by storm and put Chrysler at the top His work was nothing less than a revolution Exner introduced to Chrysler first with his idea cars then with production models vehicles that were wanted for their looks but at the same time were soundly engineered automobiles that carried classic proportions and gave the illusion of movement even while stationary His design of the 1947 Studebaker established the design pattern for all modern cars and was a huge success With many previously unseen works of art and family photos among the 150 color images throughout this is a unique and fascinating insight into a pivotal player in the development of the modern automobile
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Virgil Aeneid Book XI sold for 74.2 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas struggle against the Latins In it Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas the great Latin warcouncil Turnus plan to ambush Aeneas and the aristeia and death of Camilla K W Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as Virgils Iliad In his introduction and commentary he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad Gransden shows how despite his adoption of the epic form Virgils style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism Callimachean theory and the poetry of the neoteroi In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique
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Paschalis offers a new reading of the whole Aeneid based on the meaning of proper names and using the scene of Laocoon and the Trojan Horse as a model He sheds fresh light on every episode and book of the epic from the storm of Aeneid 1 to the death of Turnus and reveals a sustained pervasive and deepgoing exploitation of the meaning of names
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Hermann Broch 18861951 is remembered among Englishspeaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil and among Germanspeaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy his aesthetic theory and his varied criticism This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopherThrough an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet librettist and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal 18741929 Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles
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Stunned by his mothers recent death and appalled by the way his father sleepwalks through life Jerry Renault a New England high school student ponders the poster in his lockerDo I dare disturb the universePart of his universe is Archie Costello leader of a secret school societthe Virgilsand master of intimidationnbspnbspArchie himself is intimidated by a cool ambitious teacher into having the Virgils spearhead the annual fundraising eventa chocolate salenbspnbspWhen Jerry refuses to be bullied into selling chocolates he becomes a hero but his defiance is a threat to Archie the Virgils and the schoolnbspnbspIn the inevitable showdown Archies skill at intimidation turns Jerry from hero to outcast to victim leaving him alone and terribly vulnerable
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For thousands of years philosophers theologians and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder fear and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul Indeed the four great epic poets of the Western tradition Homer Virgil Dante and Milton structured their epics in part around a descent into the underworld that is both spiritual and physical both allegorical and geographical This book not only considers closely these epic journeys to the other side but explores the chain of influences that connects the poets to such writers as Plato Cicero St John St Paul Bunyan Blake and C S Lewis Written in a narrative man of letters style and complete with an annotated bibliography a timeline a whos who and an extensive glossary of Jewish Christian and mythological terms this userfriendly book will help readers understand how heaven and hell have been depicted for the last 3000 years
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Aeneid sold at 21.53 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth wrote Virgils contemporary Propertius in Western literatures most famous flourish of advance publicity The Aeneid was published after Virgils death and at once established itself as Romes national poem The hero Aeneas flees from the sack of Troy and after much suffering carves out a foothold for the future Romans in Italy While defining and celebrating what it means to be Roman the Aeneid confronts with a bleak pathos the tragedy involved in Romes destiny
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Virgil the good brother must avenge the death of his hellraising brother Boyd to fulfill the unwritten code of his Kentucky community but he decides to escape to Montana where he finds peace until his past catches up to him
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Orphaned at the age of three brought up by his con man Uncle Virgil Jack Morgan has done things that even in the future in space are unusual But when he rescued Draycos a dragonlike symbiont from certain death his life became a series of breathtaking adventures With the help of Draycos who can leap onto Jacks back and become what looks like a tattoo Jack has been doing everything he can to find out who ambushed the scoutfleet of Draycoss people the Kda and Shontine leaving Draycos the sole survivor Now just when Jack thinks he may finally be on the trail of the information he needs hes kidnapped by aliens who ask him to be a judge for them as they reveal his parents had once beenJacks friend Alison Kayna and her newly acquired Kda symbiont Taneem are also kidnapped and she is forced by two of the conspirators to open the boobytrapped safes from the KdaShontine scout fleet to try and learn the rendezvous point of the larger fleet With the help of Jacks Uncle Virge and his ship Essenay Jack and Draycos escape and rescue Alison but they are unable to gain the information they desperately need to save the refugee fleet and precious time is running out
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Orphaned at the age of three brought up by his Uncle Virgil a con mannbspJack Morgan has done things that are unusual even in the future in space But when he rescued Draycos a dragonlike symbiont from certain death his life became a series of breathtaking adventures With the help of Draycos who can leap onto Jacks back and become what looks like a tattoo Jack has been doing everything he can to find out who ambushed the scoutfleet of Draycoss people the Kda and Shontine leaving Draycos the sole survivor Now Jack thinks he may finally be on the trail of the information he needs But before he can act on what he knows hes kidnapped by aliens who ask him to be a judge for them as they reveal to him his parents had once beennbspJacks friend Alison Kayna and her newly acquired Kda symbiont are also kidnapped by the people trying to ambush the KdaShontine fleet Her captors will do almost anything tonbsplearn from Alison where the fleet willnbsprendezvous Jack and Draycos must rescue her before Alison is hurtor worse Using every trick in the book Jack and Draycos race to her aid but they arent able to eliminate the threat to the endangered fleetand precious time is running out
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Book XII brings Virgils Aeneid to a close as the longdelayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus death a finale that many readers find more unsettling than triumphant In this the first detailed singlevolume commentary on the book in any language Professor Tarrant explores Virgils complex portrayal of the opposing champions his use and transformation of earlier poetry Homers in particular and his shaping of the narrative in its final phases In addition to the linguistic and thematic commentary the volume contains a substantial introduction that discusses the larger literary and historical issues raised by the poems conclusion other sections include accounts of Virgils metre later treatments of the books events in art and music and the transmission of the text The edition is designed for upperlevel undergraduates and graduate students and will also be of interest to scholars of Latin literature
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