Author: Carl Friedrich BECKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 175
Book Description
Author: Karl Friedrich Becker
Author: Karl Friedrich Becker
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Author: The Legend of Achilles
Author: Carl Friedrich BeckerPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In tracing the legacy of Achilles in connection with the Trojan war, this book follows the lines of Homer's Iliad. The author gives a graphic picture of the stirring events in the ten years' siege main-tained by the Greeks, under the leadership of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, in their finally suc-cessful effort to redress the injury done to Menelaus, king of Sparta, whose wife, Helen, was carried off by Paris. The striking points in this thrilling narrative are the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles; the exploits of Hector, noblest character of them all; the human impersonations of the gods, who take part in the strife — some on one side, some on the other; the death of Patroclus; the final reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon and the former's tremendous exploits; the death of Hector, and the touching interview with the aged Priam, who seeks to recover his body.
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Author: Horace
Author: California (State).The First World War in German Narrative Prose
Author: Charles N. GennoPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487597444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This collection of eight essays in honour of the distinguished Canadian Germanist G.W. Field treats themes in German narrative prose of the First World War, the pre-war era, and the earliest of the Weimar Republic. The aim of the book is not to present a comprehensive study of the field, but rather to shed new light on specific problems. The essays are organized in the historical sequence of the events and situations to which they are related. The topics include discussions of the concept of war as presented by Robert Musil in Der Mann hone Eigenschaften; the treatment of war as a catalyst by the Expressionist writers Carl Sternheim and Leonhard Frank; the preservation of values in the face of war as dealt in Hesse's Demian; and an exploration of the effects of war on the individual and social values in the works of Salomo Friedländer and Alfred Döblin. An essay on H.G. Well's Mr. Britling Sees It Through helps to clarify the ways in which the reaction of German writers to the war may be viewed as specifically German by providing an outsider's point of view. The final chapter, a survey of the most recent literature on the topic, shows how much World War I lives on in the minds of German writers as the great turning point in German political and cultural history.
