Iphigenia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia write by Teresa de la Parra. This book was released on 1993. Iphigenia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girl brought up in France and forced to return to Venezuela when her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolen by an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage. Written in 1924.
Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Iphigenia in Forest Hills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia in Forest Hills write by Janet Malcolm. This book was released on 2011-03-29. Iphigenia in Forest Hills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malcolm's riveting new book tells the story of a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.
Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians
Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians write by Isabelle Torrance. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new student introduction to a Greek tragedy, Isabelle Torrance looks at what makes Iphigenia among the Taurians a successful tragedy in ancient Greek terms, and how dramatic excitement is achieved through the exotic setting, the cast of characters, and the chorus. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, and with students in mind, the central themes of ethnicity and gender relations are examined to show how Euripides manipulates established stereotypes. The play was one of Aristotle's favourites and his enthusiasm derived from the fact that, in spite of its ostensibly happy ending, the play presents the audience with an exquisitely constructed reversal of events: when Iphigenia recognizes that she has been about to sacrifice her long-lost brother, kin-murder is avoided and the plot turns into an escape drama. Other significant concerns of the play surround ritual and the gods, and these are discussed to highlight how the drama asks probing theological questions. Finally, the vast reception history of the play in a variety of genres, such as ancient comedy, Roman philosophy, European opera, and 20th century theatre, is sketched out from antiquity to the present day.
Iphigenia
Iphigenia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia write by Teresa de la Parra. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Iphigenia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994 "...I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me..." The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother's house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her father's death has sent her back to a forgotten homeland, where rigid decorum governs. Two men—the married man she adores and the wealthy fiancé she abhors—offer her escape from her prison. Which of these impossible suitors will she choose? Iphigenia was first published in 1924 in Venezuela, where it hit patriarchal society like a bomb. Teresa de la Parra was accused of undermining the morals of young women with this tale of a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves. Yet readers have kept the novel alive for decades, and this first English translation now introduces its heroine to a wider audience.
The Songs of the Kings
The Songs of the Kings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Songs of the Kings write by Barry Unsworth. This book was released on 2017-11-14. The Songs of the Kings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant retelling of an ancient myth, The Songs of the Kings offers up a different narrative of the Trojan War, one devoid of honor, wherein the mission to rescue Helen is a pretext for plundering Troy of its treasures. As the ships of the Greek fleet find themselves stalled in the straits at Aulis, waiting vainly for the gods to deliver more favorable winds, Odysseus cynically advances a call for the sacrifice of Agamemnon’s daughter, Calchas the diviner interprets events for the reader, and a Homer-like figure called the Singer is persuaded to proclaim a tale of a just war to hide the corrupt motivations of those in power. But couched within the Singer’s spin is a message at once timely and timeless: “There is always another story. But it is the stories told by the strong, the songs of kings, that are believed in the end.”
