Towers of Myth and Stone

Towers of Myth and Stone
Title Towers of Myth and Stone PDF eBook
Author Deborah Fleming
Publisher Univ of South Carolina Press
Pages 182
Release 2015-09-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1611175488

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In this critical study of the influence of W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) on the poetry and drama of Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), Deborah Fleming examines similarities in imagery, landscape, belief in eternal recurrence, use of myth, distrust of rationalism, and dedication to tradition. Although Yeats's and Jeffers's styles differed widely, Towers of Myth and Stone examines how the two men shared a vision of modernity, rejected contemporary values in favor of traditions (some of their own making), and created poetry that sought to change those values. Jeffers's well-known opposition to modernist poetry forced him for decades to the margins of critical appraisal, where he was seen as an eccentric without aesthetic content. Yet both Yeats and Jeffers formulated social and poetic philosophies that continue to find relevance in critical and cultural theory. Engaging Yeats's work enabled Jeffers to develop a related, though distinct, sense of what themes and subject matter were best suited for poetic endeavor. His connection to Yeats helps to explain the nature of Jeffers's poetry even as it helps to clarify Yeats's influence on those who followed him. Moreover, Fleming argues, Jeffers's interest in Yeats suggests that critics misunderstand Jeffers if they take his rejection of modernism (as exemplified by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound) as a rejection of contemporary poetry or the process by which modern poetry came into being.

Tower Legends

Tower Legends
Title Tower Legends PDF eBook
Author Bertha Palmer Lane
Publisher Boston, The Beacon Press Incorporated
Pages 142
Release 1932
Genre Legends
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Tower Legends

Tower Legends
Title Tower Legends PDF eBook
Author Bertha Palmer Lane
Publisher Library of Alexandria
Pages 133
Release 2020-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1465578544

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All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Title All the Light We Cannot See PDF eBook
Author Anthony Doerr
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 560
Release 2014-05-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1476746605

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Devils Tower

Devils Tower
Title Devils Tower PDF eBook
Author Billy B
Publisher Independently Published
Pages 0
Release 2023-09-18
Genre
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Hear from a Lakota Elder how Devils Tower is a place where the physical and spiritual worlds intersect. Devils Tower, a magnificent sentinel of stone rising above the Wyoming landscape, has long been steeped in mystery and wonder. But beyond its sheer geological grandeur lies a tapestry of myths, legends. The Towers significance Native American legends UFO sightings The Towers myths and legends Climbers dream destination Discover fun destinations to travel to and explore within the United States. Understand the Devils Tower legends and deep-rooted history. If you've ever been curious about the First National park in America and want to fully immerse yourself in the gloriousness that made it the first, put this book in your cart and explore the depths of this rich piece of history.

Myths of the Rune Stone

Myths of the Rune Stone
Title Myths of the Rune Stone PDF eBook
Author David M. Krueger
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 184
Release 2015-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 1452945438

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What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades. In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus’s exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale’s credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. Faith in the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone was a crucial part of the local Nordic identity. Accepted and proclaimed as truth, the story of the Rune Stone recast Native Americans as villains. The community used the account as the basis for civic celebrations for years, and advocates for the stone continue to promote its validity despite the overwhelming evidence that it was a hoax. Krueger puts this stubborn conviction in context and shows how confidence in the legitimacy of the stone has deep implications for a wide variety of Minnesotans who embraced it, including Scandinavian immigrants, Catholics, small-town boosters, and those who desired to commemorate the white settlers who died in the Dakota War of 1862. Krueger demonstrates how the resilient belief in the Rune Stone is a form of civil religion, with aspects that defy logic but illustrate how communities characterize themselves. He reveals something unique about America’s preoccupation with divine right and its troubled way of coming to terms with the history of the continent’s first residents. By considering who is included, who is left out, and how heroes and villains are created in the stories we tell about the past, Myths of the Rune Stone offers an enlightening perspective on not just Minnesota but the United States as well.

The Night of the Gods

The Night of the Gods
Title The Night of the Gods PDF eBook
Author John O'Neill
Publisher
Pages 594
Release 1893
Genre
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