| Author | : J. R. Ward |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
| ISBN | : 0451414608 |
Fierce warrior and legendary lover, Rhage, a vampire cursed by the Scribe Virgin and owned by the dark side, finds salvation in Mary Luce, the innocent young beauty he has sworn to protect.
| Author | : H. Rider Haggard |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2020-07-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3752300078 |
Reproduction of the original: Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard
| Author | : Mahendran Nadar |
| Publisher | : Mahendran Nadar |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2023-10-27 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : |
In the midst of World War I, love blossoms amidst chaos, echoing its eternal melody through the lives of the determined artist, Aria Kensington, and the talented composer, Daniel Reynolds Set against the poignant backdrop of a war-torn world, their stories intertwine to create a symphony of love and art that transcends boundaries. Aria Kensington, a gifted artist residing in the idyllic town of Willowbrook, possesses an unwavering belief in the transformative power of love. As war casts its shadows, she sets out to spread love through her art, believing it can heal even the deepest wounds. Her journey unfolds as destiny weaves its intricate threads, guiding her path and connecting her with kindred souls. Daniel Reynolds, a prodigious composer, embraces the melodies within his heart, yearning to compose music that will touch the souls of humanity. His compositions are a testament to his belief in the universal language of love and music, carrying the hope of healing a world torn apart by war. Their paths converge at The Cosmic Heart, a sanctuary that becomes a crucible for their beliefs and endeavors. As they navigate the tumultuous era, they discover the resilience of love, the power of expression through art, and the symphony that unites their souls. Through a tapestry of emotions, fate, and the enduring legacy of love, "Love's Eternal Melody" narrates a timeless story—a story of love's resilience in the face of adversity, the symphony that echoes through the ages, and the legacy that lives on, inspiring generations to believe in the transformative power of love and art.
| Author | : Daniel S. Burt |
| Publisher | : Visible Ink Press |
| Total Pages | : 706 |
| Release | : 2018-07-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1578596785 |
Get the most out of reading with this an engaging and fun guide to the deeper meanings in great works of literature! From the epic of Gilgamesh to Aristotle and Cicero, and from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to Wuthering Heights, War and Peace, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Nobel-winning lyrics of Bob Dylan, the world of literature is an integral part of our lives. Great literature can shape and form thoughts and opinions as well as influence politics and predict the future. Reading can truly enrich our lives, but it can sometimes be daunting to get the most out of a great work of literature. The Handy Literature Answer Book: Understand and Enjoy Meanings, Symbolism, and Signs in Great Works is an engaging, easy-to-read look at literature basics such as themes, symbols, context, and other literary devices. Different literary forms, including novels, poems, plays, short stories, memoirs, and literary nonfiction are analyzed. Hundreds of important stories and great works are used as illustrative examples. Learn about the five basic questions for any work of literature, including “What is the significance of a title?” “What is conflict?” “What is character development?” “What is point of view?” “How does a setting affect a story?” “What are the different schools of literary criticism?” and many more. Bringing the most out of the reading experience, The Handy Literature Answer Book deciphers and analyzes stories, novels, and verses through insightful in-depth answers to nearly 400 common questions. You will also read about such fascinating tidbits as ... What are the key components of literature? How is reading literature different from other kinds of reading? Why is artful reading so hard? What do poems do? How should a poem be read for its comparisons—metaphors and similes? What, according to Poe, should be the method of the short story writer? How do you recognize the difference between story and plot in a short story? How can you recognize a symbol? What are the defining characteristics of the novel? How did the novel evolve from a popular literary entertainment to the modern novel? What is the difference between drama and theater? What is the best way to understand and appreciate Shakespearean drama? What approaches should you take in reading an essay? What are characteristics of a memoir? This handy primer from two highly regarded experts also includes a glossary of essential literary terms, a timeline, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. Making reading more enriching, rewarding, and enjoyable, The Handy Literature Answer Book is a wonderful, eye-opening read!
| Author | : Madeleine Callaghan |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2022-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1800855621 |
Eternity in British Romantic Poetry explores the representation of the relationship between eternity and the mortal world in the poetry of the period. It offers an original approach to Romanticism that demonstrates, against the grain, the dominant intellectual preoccupation of the era: the relationship between the mortal and the eternal. The project's scope is two-fold: firstly, it analyses the prevalence and range of images of eternity (from apocalypse and afterlife to transcendence) in Romantic poetry; secondly, it opens up a new and more nuanced focus on how Romantic poets imagined and interacted with the idea of eternity. Every poet featured in the book seeks and finds their uniqueness in their apprehension of eternity. From Blake’s assertion of the Eternal Now to Keats’s defiance of eternity, Wordsworth’s ‘two consciousnesses’ versus Coleridge’s capacious poetry, Byron’s swithering between versions of eternity compared to Shelleyan yearning, and Hemans’s superlative account of everlasting female suffering, each poet finds new versions of eternity to explore or reject. This monograph sets out a paradigm-shifting approach to the aesthetic and philosophical power of eternity in Romantic poetry.
| Author | : Lorna Piatti-Farnell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2013-11-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135053383 |
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of vampires in contemporary popular literature and demonstrating how they engage with essential cultural preoccupations, anxieties, and desires. Drawing from cultural materialism, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender studies, and postmodern thought, Piatti-Farnell re-frames the concept of the vampire in relation to a distinctly twenty-first century brand of Gothic imagination, highlighting important aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural changes that have affected the literary genre in the post-2000 era. She places the contemporary literary vampire within the wider popular culture scope, also building critical connections with issues of fandom and readership. In reworking the formulaic elements of the vampiric tradition — and experimenting with genre-bending techniques — this book shows how authors such as J.R. Ward, Stephanie Meyers, Charlaine Harris, and Anne Rice have allowed vampires to be moulded into enigmatic figures who sustain a vivid conceptual debt to contemporary consumer and popular culture. This book highlights the changes — conceptual, political and aesthetic — that vampires have undergone in the past decade, simultaneously addressing how these changes in "vampire identity" impact on the definition of the Gothic as a whole.
| Author | : Gordon Braden |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780300076219 |
The 366 lyrics of Petrarch's Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a time they provide Renaissance Europe with an almost exclusive sense of what love poetry should be. In this stimulating look at the international phenomenon of Petrarch's poetry, Gordon Braden focuses on materials in languages other than English--Italian, French, and Spanish, with brief citations from Croatian and Cypriot Greek, among others. Braden closely examines Petrarch's theme of love for an impossible object of desire, a theme that captivated and inspired across centuries, societies, and languages. The book opens with a fresh interpretation of Petrarch's sequence, in which Braden defines the poet's innovations in the context of his predecessors, Dante and the troubadours. The author then examines how Petrarchan predispositions affect various strains of Renaissance literature: prose narrative, verse narrative, and, primarily, lyric poetry. In the final chapter, Braden turns to the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to demonstrate a sophisticated case of Petrarchism taken to one of its extremes within the walls of a convent in seventeenth-century Mexico.
| Author | : Andrew B. Perry |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2002-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595218954 |
This book is an anthology of poetry of the highest quality, revolutionizing the field of poetry. Some of the themes considered are: love,peace,death,war,friendship,hatred, the tragedies of September 11, heroism, mathematics, proof, and life in general. All poetry in this anthology is deep and profound. In the unlikely event that any reader feels otherwise, it is only because they don't understand poetry.
| Author | : Dana Percec |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2012-03-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1443838357 |
Romance: The History of a Genre is a collection of essays devoted to the highly popular and no less controversial genre of romance. A genre often disregarded for its stereotypical language, shallow characters, and predictable plots, dismissed as “women’s” fiction, accused of conventionalism, romance is a genre which, after ups and downs in its millennial history, is now holding a leading position on the international bookselling market. This achievement has also been possible with the endorsement of contemporary media and modern technology, cinema, television, the Internet, etc. Much has been written in both traditional and more recent literary theory about the origins and evolution of the early forms of romance, from the classical Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and into the Renaissance and early modernity in Western Europe. A corpus, which is becoming more and more substantial today, is already available about the gendered status of contemporary romance, both in terms of the writing ethos and in terms of reader response, with theories coming from the combined areas of feminism, social sciences, and psychoanalysis. The aim of the present volume is that of noting the fluid character of the genre, with the great number of subcategories, mixed and hybrid, bringing evidence to the polymorphous nature of contemporary popular culture. This book proposes, in four parts and twelve chapters, a fascinating and multifaceted journey into the history, substance and geography of romance. From its origins to the latest developments, from its subgenres to its features, from print to film, from television to Facebook, romance comes in various shapes and colours, which the reader can fully explore. The journey in the world of romance takes the reader from familiar corners to less familiar ones: from North America, Great Britain, Romania, or Turkey, to India or South Africa. The numerous approaches to romance generate diverse data, varied analytical frameworks and interesting, fresh and solidly grounded findings.
