The ghost of Achilles /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strongman, Luke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., 2017.
Colección:Focus on civilizations and cultures
Temas:
Colonization > Philosophy.
Colonization in literature.
Culture diffusion.
Colonisation > Philosophie.
Colonisation dans la littérature.
Diffusion culturelle.
cultural diffusion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A "perpetual sunrise" : the Alexandrian library
  • "Let Rome in Tiber melt" : William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
  • "Then, oh! Unbar this churlish gate" : the crusades
  • "And wrote my will across the sky in stars" : T.E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom
  • " ... a talking bird, a singing tree, and some golden water ..." : the Arabian nights
  • "Every life was a spark" : Derek Walcott's Omeros
  • "Our faithful guide through all the vicissitudes of climates" : Polynesian navigation
  • "A brutal innocence" : Gauguin and primitivism
  • "Meet heaven and earth, and here let all things end!" : Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine
  • "A dream within a dream" : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and the Satanic verses
  • The "history house" : Arundhati Roy's the God of small things
  • A "tear on the cheek of time" : the Taj Mahal at Agra
  • Epilogue : the citadel.

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