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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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Xenophon's Adventure was the title of a re - telling of Xenophon for children by Geoffrey Household - or the title , at any rate , of the British edition . The American title , The Exploits of Xenophon , had stressed Xenophon's ...
Xenophon's Adventure was the title of a re - telling of Xenophon for children by Geoffrey Household - or the title , at any rate , of the British edition . The American title , The Exploits of Xenophon , had stressed Xenophon's ...
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We can perhaps understand , then , why Sir John Fortescue commented ( in the year of the Jameson Raid ) on the ' Britannic character of Xenophon's adventure . At the same time , Fortescue's complacent assertion helps us to see even more ...
We can perhaps understand , then , why Sir John Fortescue commented ( in the year of the Jameson Raid ) on the ' Britannic character of Xenophon's adventure . At the same time , Fortescue's complacent assertion helps us to see even more ...
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But Walton too is thwarted , painfully conscious that he has no friend to share his adventures , and finally broken ... Fictions of adventure like Captain Singleton and Frankenstein fed off the ' real life ' narratives that told of the ...
But Walton too is thwarted , painfully conscious that he has no friend to share his adventures , and finally broken ... Fictions of adventure like Captain Singleton and Frankenstein fed off the ' real life ' narratives that told of the ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
Eastern Adventure | 14 |
Our Friend of Youth | 42 |
Image of Eternity | 66 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliográfiai információk
| 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 |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |