Karen Marie Moning Books: 2004

Selasa, 02 November 2004

Amazing Rain

Amazing Rain

Amazing Rain

With the deceptively simple use of line of Matt Groening or James Thurber, the deft and elegant use of color of Chris Ware or Hergé, the cinematographic eye of Eric Drooker, and the combined sense of dark humor and nostalgic sadness of Edward Gorey, Brown has created a sparse and engrossing novella that stands beautifully, beckoningly outside of any of the established forms or conventions of the comic book or the graphic novel to date. Like a medieval tapestry of Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelihearts drawn by Keith Haring on a Wacom tablet, Sam Brown weaves a story within a story, a fable entwined in a narrative of urban disenchantment and pastoral escape.

ISBN: 1932360506

Author: Sam Brown

Publisher: Soft Skull Press

Rating: 4.30

Rabu, 27 Oktober 2004

Homer s Text and Language

Homer s Text and Language

Homer s Text and Language

As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy's essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies, there has been an ongoing debate centering on different ways to establish the text of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer. Gregory Nagy, a lifelong Homer scholar, takes a stand in the midst of this debate. He presents an overview of millennia of scholarly engagement with Homer's poetry, shows the different editorial principles that have been applied to the texts, and evaluates their impact.

ISBN: 0252029836

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Rating: 5.00

Selasa, 10 Agustus 2004

Wild About Books

Wild About Books

Wild About Books

It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo.

In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal—tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. “She even found waterproof books for the otter, who never went swimming without Harry Potter.” In no time at all, Molly has them “forsaking their niches, their nests, and their nooks,” going “wild, simply wild, about wonderful books.” Judy Sierra’s funny animal tale coupled with Marc Brown’s lush, fanciful paintings will have the same effect on young Homo sapiens. Altogether, it’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

ISBN: 037582538X

Author: Judy Sierra

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Rating: 4.14

Selasa, 03 Agustus 2004

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses (from Greek μετά meta and μορφή morphē, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narrative poem in fifteen books describing the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework. Completed in AD 8, it is recognized as a masterpiece of Golden Age Latin literature.

This cohesive collection of stories from Greek and Roman mythology recounts tales of recorded transformations. Comprised of over fifty stories, it chronicles the legends of King Midas, Daedalus, Icarus, Hercules, and the Trojan War.

ISBN: 014044789X

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Penguin

Rating: 4.01

Jumat, 30 Juli 2004

Short Epics

Short Epics

Short Epics

Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in the Iliad; The Golden Fleece (Vellum Aureum); and Antonias, a short epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt. Antonias is the first Christian epic of the Renaissance, a precursor of Milton's Paradise Lost. This volume contains the first modern editions of the Latin text of Antonias and Astyanax.

ISBN: 0674014839

Author: Maffeo Vegio

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Rating: 4.33

Senin, 22 Maret 2004

Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia

Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia

Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia

This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the wider themes of the narrative. It is a close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In particular, Simon Goldhill focuses on the text's interests in language and its control, in sexuality and sexual difference, and in the progression and description of events. Dr Goldhill links a sound philological knowledge with material drawn widely from modern literary theory and anthropological studies. The result is a challenging and provocative book, which offers for the serious student of Greek drama an exciting range of insights into one of the most important texts of the ancient world.

ISBN: 0521604303

Author: Simon Goldhill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Rating: 3.33

Senin, 01 Maret 2004

Gecko Gathering PB

Gecko Gathering PB

Gecko Gathering PB

Check-to, to-kay. Check-to, to-kay. In a forest in Thailand, Gecko hears other geckos and climbs toward them.

ISBN: 1592492908

Author: Vanessa Giancamilli

Publisher: Soundprints

Rating: 0.00

Selasa, 06 Januari 2004

Ovid s "Metamorphoses"

Ovid s

Ovid s "Metamorphoses"

Ovid's poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed into flowers, trees, stones and stars. Golding's vernacular version was the first major English translation.

ISBN: 0801870607

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Rating: 4.01

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