The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationThis book tells the story of 'Thalatta! Thalatta! (The sea! The sea!), the shout first uttered on a mountain in eastern Turkey by the army of 10,000 greek mercenaries whose adventures in what are now Turkey, Syria and Iraq were described by the Athenian historian and philosopher Xenophon, who also participated in the long march to the coast. This story has played a persistent part in the European and American cultural tradition over the last two hundred years. Rood tells its story, taking in literary masterpieces by writers such as Heine, Shelley and Joyce, books of travel and adventure set in the Middle East and elsewhere, articles in Victorian periodicals, popular romantic novels, newpaper editorials at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York. |
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Frankenstein is on a ship in the icy north , telling his story to a polar explorer , Robert Walton , who tells it in turn in a letter to his sister at home . Before we encounter Frankenstein , we hear Walton tell of his own dreams of ...
Frankenstein is on a ship in the icy north , telling his story to a polar explorer , Robert Walton , who tells it in turn in a letter to his sister at home . Before we encounter Frankenstein , we hear Walton tell of his own dreams of ...
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And not just to sailors simply admiring the open sea around them , but to sailors engaged in adventures of their own - to the followers of Mary Shelley's Robert Walton , men who felt the pull of the north and were driven to confront the ...
And not just to sailors simply admiring the open sea around them , but to sailors engaged in adventures of their own - to the followers of Mary Shelley's Robert Walton , men who felt the pull of the north and were driven to confront the ...
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The author wrote in a preface that the title indicated the motley character of the contents ' : ' the hardy sea - life of the north , and - English politics ' . All the same , a reviewer could complain that the novel was ' somewhat ...
The author wrote in a preface that the title indicated the motley character of the contents ' : ' the hardy sea - life of the north , and - English politics ' . All the same , a reviewer could complain that the novel was ' somewhat ...
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Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
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| Cím | The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination, Tim Rood |
| Szerző | Tim Rood |
| Kiadó | Duckworth Overlook, 2005 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Michigani Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2008. ápr. 28. |
| ISBN | 0715633082, 9780715633083 |
| Terjedelem | 262 oldal |
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