The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern ImaginationDuckworth Overlook, 2005 - 262 oldal This 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at the time of the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a painting by the 19th century artist Benjamin Robert Haydon, an unpublished radio play by Louis MacNeice, and a modern novel and film which transfer Xenophon's story to New York.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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... feeling of which he himself was never free ... a feeling that he was inclined to call a sense of " eternity ” , a feeling of something limitless , unbounded - as it were " oceanic " ' . While Rolland thought that this ' oceanic feeling ...
... feeling of which he himself was never free ... a feeling that he was inclined to call a sense of " eternity ” , a feeling of something limitless , unbounded - as it were " oceanic " ' . While Rolland thought that this ' oceanic feeling ...
131. oldal
... feeling discomfort : ' I feel the want of a great work to keep my mind excited . ' ' A great work ' was what he needed ' between me & adversity - I feel protected before a great Canvas or Wall . ' As Huxley noted , ' he was only ...
... feeling discomfort : ' I feel the want of a great work to keep my mind excited . ' ' A great work ' was what he needed ' between me & adversity - I feel protected before a great Canvas or Wall . ' As Huxley noted , ' he was only ...
142. oldal
... feeling for the past could compensate for the fact that he was himself several hundred miles west of the spot where ... feel the urge to add an allusion or two to Xenophon as they wrote up their hefty accounts of their Turkey trips - to ...
... feeling for the past could compensate for the fact that he was himself several hundred miles west of the spot where ... feel the urge to add an allusion or two to Xenophon as they wrote up their hefty accounts of their Turkey trips - to ...
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The Black | 1 |
Eastern Adventure | 223 |
Our Friend of Youth | 225 |
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adventure allusion Anabasis ancient Armenia army Arrian Athenian Athens Benjamin Robert Haydon Black Sea British cairn childhood classical coast Cyrus described desert Diary Dunkirk earlier English escape Eucles Euphrates exhibition famous father feel Fergus Finnegans Wake Fleming Galata Glazebrook Greece Haydon Haydon's painting Heine hero heroic History imagination James Joyce journey Joyce Joyce's Kinglake Kinneir Kurdistan land later London looked Louis MacNeice MacNeice's Magazine modern Mount Theches mountains narrative nineteenth century novel ocean orig Oxford parasangs perhaps Persian Persian Wars picture poem poet published readers Rennell retreat romantic Ronald Knox route saw the sea scene on Mount seaside seems seen shouted Thalatta sight soldiers T.E. Lawrence Ten Thousand Greeks Thalassa Thalatta Thomson thought Tozer Trabzon trans Trebizond triumph Turkey Victorian writers wrote Xenophon Xenophon's account Xenophon's Greeks Xenophon's sea Xenophon's shout Yurick