100+ books to read ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin. Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Published in 1916, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. Click here to read more about A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita tells the story of middle-aged Humbert Humbert’s love for twelve-year-old Dolores Haze. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller U.S.A. In E.
Read Books Online Free - Romance Novels Online The Divine Comedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino's fresco On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven;[4] but at a deeper level, it represents, allegorically, the soul's journey towards God.[5] At this deeper level, Dante draws on medieval Christian theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy and the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.[6] Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse".[7] The work was originally simply titled Commedìa and was later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition to add the word divina to the title was that of the Venetian humanist Lodovico Dolce,[8] published in 1555 by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari. Structure and story[edit] The last word in each of the three parts of the Divine Comedy is stelle ("stars"). Inferno[edit]
Meditations On The Divine Comedy Inferno Cantos XV-XXI A. S. Kline © Copyright 2002 All Rights Reserved This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Contents Meditation XV: Inferno Canto XV MedXV:1 Brunetto Latini: Inferno Canto XV:1 The Canto begins with an extended analogy, with the sea-walls of Belgium, one of Dante’s marvellous concrete details, followed by another pair of similes. Brunetto’s Tesoretto was a source book for the idea of an allegorical journey, beginning in a wood of error, and Brunetto himself was an exile, a wanderer, after Montaperti, visiting France and probably England. Brunetto now points out other clerks and scholars guilty of his own crime, allowing Dante too an ironic reference to Boniface, the Pope in 1300, and the object of Dante’s scorn for his corruption of the Papal office, using one of his official titles, ‘the servant of God’s servants’, a pointed comment on Boniface’s actual behaviour.
Runeberg fick i uppgift att definiera finnen | SvD Johan Ludvig Runeberg, som fyller 200 år i dag, är Finlands nationalskald. Det är det viktigaste man kan säga om honom. Han har naturligtvis varit en läst och beundrad diktare också i Sverige. Hans "Fänrik Ståls sägner" hjälpte den storvulet nationalistiska sena 1800-talet att skapa sig ett mera uthärdligt minne av det snöpliga kriget 1808-09, då Finland förlorades och hela det svenska rikets existens hotades, och hans strama ungdomslyrik bidrog till att frigöra den svenska poesin från den romantiska efterklangen. Men Runebergs betydelse har alltid varit mera politisk än litterär, och detta har i hög grad präglat receptionen av hans verk. Runebergs nationella och politiska betydelse har med den finska nationens uppkomst att göra. Allt detta skulle nu ändras så snabbt som möjligt. J L Runeberg var alltså född 1804. Som en första sammanfattning av denna människosyn står den gamle majorens ord i "Julkvällen" (där ordet Finland första gången nämns i Runebergs verk): Frågan var kinkig.
Stephanie Merritt: Small is beautiful - the best new journals | Review | The Observer In the age of new media, when anyone can set up a blog or interactive webzine with minimal investment, you might have thought the days of the little magazine were numbered. In fact, the form has never been healthier. The Paris Review, the oldest extant literary magazine in English, has reinvented itself under the editorship of Philip Gourevitch and gained circulation, while the increasingly commercial concerns of the mainstream media have galvanised groups of young writers to create their own space for publication - as the critic AO Scott wrote in the New York Times, 'to lodge a protest against the tyranny of timeliness'. The Paris Review Founded Paris, 1953, by George Plimpton (who remained its editor until his death in 2003), William Pene du Bois, Peter Matthiessen, Harold L Humes and John PC Train. Editor Philip Gourevitch, former New Yorker writer and author. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Philip Roth, VS Naipaul and Rick Moody, who were all first published in The Paris Review.
Free eBooks at Planet eBook - Classic Novels and Literature HEAVEN OR HELL? This is a research, critical and creative writing class focusing on the themes of heaven and hell. You will be improving computer and library skills as you continue the recursive processes of reading, thinking, writing and reflecting on your development as a writer. Do you ever feel as if you're living in or at least visiting a hell on earth? As in all of Keefer multidisciplinary classes, there are group projects, individual paths, core material and the class project. Groups: Humanities majors can analyse the heavens and hells of literature and philosophy; Social science majors can research utopias and dystopias; and health science majors can describe the subjective hells of a specific disease or disability. Individual paths: Plan the semester to make the most of your talents and research interests by choosing a topic that you love (on the theme of Heaven or Hell) and keep your focus on self-directed learning. Click on the following sites for information about the readings: Dante, Plato,