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Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : New York, Farrar
Release Date : 1954
ISBN :
Pages : 328 pages
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Download Memoirs of Hadrian in PDF by Marguerite Yourcenar Full Book and published by New York, Farrar. This book was released on 1954 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictionalized letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 76 - 138) to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius.
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Release Date : 2000
ISBN : 9780141184968
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (184 Download)
Download Memoirs of Hadrian in PDF by Marguerite Yourcenar Full Book and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrian, approaching death, writes a long valedictory letter to the young Marcus Aurelius, next-but-one in the line of succession. Hadrian describes his accession and explains the philosophy that informed his rule over the powerful and far-flung Empire.
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Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Release Date : 2016-11-09
ISBN : 2806281075
Pages : 25 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (86 Download)
Download Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (Book Analysis) in PDF by Bright Summaries Full Book and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Memoirs of Hadrian with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, a stunning fictional autobiography of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Written in the form of a letter from the dying Hadrian to his young successor Marcus Aurelius, it is both a chronicle of the emperor’s rise to power and his efforts to bring peace to his empire, and a meditation on the legacy he is leaving behind. The novel was selected as one of the Bokklubben World Library’s 100 Best Books in the History of Literature, and has featured on the list for nearly 15 years. It remains the best-known work by Marguerite Yourcenar, who won the prestigious Prix Femina for the novel and was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1983. She was also the first woman elected to the Académie Française. Find out everything you need to know about Memoirs of Hadrian in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : New York : Modern Library
Release Date : 1984
ISBN :
Pages : 426 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (39 Download)
Download Memoirs of Hadrian in PDF by Marguerite Yourcenar Full Book and published by New York : Modern Library. This book was released on 1984 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
Author : Shortcut Edition
Publisher : Shortcut Edition
Release Date : 2021-09-29
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Pages : 28 pages
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Download SUMMARY - Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar in PDF by Shortcut Edition Full Book and published by Shortcut Edition. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. * By reading this summary, you will discover how to succeed professionally while approaching wisdom. * You will also discover : that knowing the other allows you to know yourself ; that cultural eclecticism allows you to blossom; that the beauty of the world brings you closer to yourself; that to rise, it is advisable to surround oneself well. * Marguerite Yourcenar's masterpiece, Memoirs of Hadrian offers a poetic meditation on death, wisdom, power, and the quest for self. Richly documented, the work takes the form of fictional autobiography. The narrator, a Roman emperor of the second century A.D., recounts his life, from childhood to old age, including his accession to imperial dignity. Concerned with building a just and beautiful world, he hopes to give the reader the benefit of his own experience as a statesman. How to acquire both power and wisdom? *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-12-18
ISBN : 1118589815
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (118 Download)
Download The Fall of the Roman Empire in PDF by Martin M. Winkler Full Book and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this book present the first comprehensiveappreciation of The Fall of the Roman Empire fromhistorical, historiographical, and cinematic perspectives. The bookalso provides the principal classical sources on the period. It isa companion to Gladiator: Film and History (Blackwell, 2004)and Spartacus: Film and History (Blackwell, 2007) andcompletes a triad of scholarly studies on Hollywood’sgreatest films about Roman history. A critical re-evaluation of the 1964 epic film The Fall ofthe Roman Empire, directed by Anthony Mann, fromhistorical, film-historical, and contemporary points of view Presents a collection of scholarly essays and classical sourceson the period of Roman history that ancient and modern historianshave considered to be the turning point toward the eventual fall ofRome Contains a short essay by director Anthony Mann Includes a map of the Roman Empire and film stills, as well astranslations of the principal ancient sources, an extensivebibliography, and a chronology of events
Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN : 9780803227392
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (227 Download)
Download Legendary Figures in PDF by Clayton Koelb Full Book and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels,øfrom Flaubert?s Salammb– to Christa Wolf?s Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new ?historical sense,? which arose in the mid?nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert?s writings. What is crucial about the new historical sense is that it views the past as essentially ?alien? and ?other.? The connection between past and present may be powerful, but it is always indirect and difficult to negotiate. As a result, the past seems exotic and unattainable, the object of nostalgia and desire. Koelb distinguishes this sense of history, with its persistent discontinuities between past and present, from the more continuous and progressive views of history of novelists like Sir Walter Scott and such philosophers as Hegel, Marx, and Luk¾cs. In their writings, history ?proceeds according to the laws of cause and effect, and each epoch can be understood as both the result of the previous one and the cause of the next.? In contrast, the modernist writers that Koelb examines?Flaubert, Pater, Mann, Broch, Wilder, Yourcenar, and Wolf?imagine a past that is ?mythic? and ?legendary? and thus a metaphor for everything distant, complicated, unattainable, and unknowable.
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar (Schriftstellerin, Frankreich)
Publisher :
Release Date : 1954
ISBN :
Pages : 313 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (75 Download)
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Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1959
ISBN :
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (33 Download)
Download Memoirs of Hadrian in PDF by Marguerite Yourcenar Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1963-01-01
ISBN : 9780374503482
Pages : 408 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (53 Download)
Download Memoirs of Hadrian in PDF by Marguerite Yourcenar Full Book and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the Emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, this work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. The author describes the book as a meditation upon history, but this meditation is built upon intensive study of the personal and political life of a great and complex character as seen by himself and his contemporaries, both friends and enemies. Marguerite Yourcenar reconstructs Hadrian's arduous early years, his triumphs and reversals, and his gradual reordering of a war-torn world.
Author : Judith Holland Sarnecki
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN : 9780838639924
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (639 Download)
Download Subversive Subjects in PDF by Judith Holland Sarnecki Full Book and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive Subjects: Reading Marguerite Yourcenar is the first collection of articles in English to deal with many of this very private author's best-known works. Its contributors make use of a variety of literary theories to probe the complex ambiguities at the heart of Yourcenar's writings. Each contributor ventures beyond traditional readings of Yourcenar's complex texts, pushing against the boundaries of interpretation that the Belgian-born writer carefully established. Many of the essays read like a mystery; hence they follow Yourcenar's call for rigorous explications du texte as they probe her complex ouevre. Judith Holland Sarnecki is Associate Professor of French at Lawrence University. Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey is Associate Professor of German and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
Author : David Cowart
Publisher : SIU Press
Release Date : 1989
ISBN : 9780809314799
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (314 Download)
Download History and the Contemporary Novel in PDF by David Cowart Full Book and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowart presents a study of international historical fiction since World War II, with reflections on the affinities between historical and fictional narrative, analysis of the basic modes of historical fiction, and readings of a number of historical novels, including John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s The Leopard, D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. He proposes recognizing four modes of the historical novel: the past as a "distant mirror" of the present, fictions whose authors seek to pinpoint the precise historical moment when the modern age or some prominent feature of it came into existence, fictions whose authors aspire purely or largely to historical verisimilitude, and fictions whose authors reverse history to contemplate utopia and dystopia in the future. Thus, historical fiction can be organized under the rubrics: The Distant Mirror; The Turning Point; The Way It Was; and The Way It Will Be. This fourfold schema and his focus on postwar novels set Cowart’s work apart from previous studies, which have not devoted adequate space to the contemporary historical novel. Cowart argues that postwar historical fiction merits more extensive treatment because it is the product of an age unique in the annals of history—an age in which history itself may end.
Author : Cassandra Coblentz
Publisher : Gregory R Miller & Co
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 9780974364896
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (364 Download)
Download Lyle Ashton Harris in PDF by Cassandra Coblentz Full Book and published by Gregory R Miller & Co. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Susan Krane. Text by Cassandra Coblentz, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Interview by Senam Okudzeto.
Author : Josyane Savigneau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-10
ISBN : 9780226735443
Pages : 578 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (735 Download)
Download Marguerite Yourcenar in PDF by Josyane Savigneau Full Book and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected writers in the French language and best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Yourcenar received countless literary honors and became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise. An uncompromising and intimate portrait. 50 halftones.
Author : Edition Shortcut (author)
Publisher :
Release Date : 1901
ISBN : 9781005016531
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (16 Download)
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Author : Louis A. Ruprecht
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-17
ISBN : 1793637679
Pages : 221 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (793 Download)
Download Reach Without Grasping in PDF by Louis A. Ruprecht Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a range of genre choices as the classical authors from whom she has drawn so richly throughout her enormously creative body of work.
Author : Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher :
Release Date : 1957
ISBN :
Pages : 336 pages
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