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books on: Alcyone  - 225 results

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Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse
Book by Rosemarie P. McGerr; University Press of Florida, 1998
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Technique, Closure (Rhetoric), Discourse Analysis, Literary, Fiction, Rhetoric, Medieval
...they would make him sleep as they did Alcyone. As if by a miracle, the insomniac immediately...take kep/Of" the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone, he says, he would be dead and buried...of the tale keeps him from the fate of Alcyone, who did not heed the advice "rede...
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Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down
Book by Paul Crawford; University of Missouri Press, 2002
Subjects: Golding, William--1911---Knowledge--History, Golding, William--1911---Political And Social Views, Historical Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Literature And History--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Political Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century
...ship but turns out to be the friendly Alcyone. More and more like Colley, Talbot falls madly in love with the Alcyone s Miss Chumley and grieves excessively...Wheeler who, having been picked up by the Alcyone after being lost overboard, haunts...
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The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance
Book by Gregory B. Stone; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994
Subjects: Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Renaissance, Troubadours In Literature
...apparently originates the news told to Alcyone disappears from sight, as the singularity...any lyric singer. The voice heard by Alcyone does not belong to or emanate from any...lover. In the Book , then, the story of Alcyone and Seyes tells the story of a story that...
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Collected Papers on Latin Poetry
Book by R. O. A. M. Lyne; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Latin Poetry--History And Criticism
...Callimachus, and lart pour lart (1984) 1. Alcyone, pathetically devoted wife of Ceyx...conducts us remorselessly to the point where Alcyone sees their vindication. Ceyxs body is...eyes. The tragic praxis of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode seems unmistakeable.1 From Alcyones...
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Last Four Lives of Annie Besant
Book by Arthur H. Nethercot; University of Chicago Press, 1963
Subjects: Besant, Annie Wood--1847-1933, India--Politics And Government--1857-1919, Theosophists--Biography
...narrated in Man and continued in The Lives of Alcyone . It was the original intention to publish...1914. The prime purpose of The Lives of Alcyone was, then, to show the credentials of...bored, the greater the role played by Alcyone in the affairs of his nation and his noble...
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journal articles on: Alcyone  - 13 results

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Dryden's "Ceyx and Alcyone": Metamorphosing Ovid
Journal article by David Gelineau; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2007
Drydens "Ceyx and Alcyone": Metamorphosing Ovid. by David Gelineau "Ceyx and Alcyone" is perhaps the least commented upon of all...particularly relevant context for "Ceyx and Alcyone" is the three other tales that immediately surround...
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Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: Mythic Revision as a Ritual for Grief
Journal article by Miriam M. Chirico; Comparative Drama, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Metamorphoses (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Zimmerman, Mary--Criticism and interpretation, Zimmerman, Mary--Works
...models of death. The tale of Ceyx and Alcyone is one such myth where the final image...tale, Ceyx, a king, leaves his wife, Alcyone, to go on a sea voyage, and he and his...up perishing in a storm. The gods send Alcyone a dream to inform her that her husband...
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Reading the Lies of Poets: The Literal and the Allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne Amoureuse
Journal article by Sylvia Huot; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Fonteinne amoureuse (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Criticism and interpretation, French poets--Works, Guillaume de Machaut--Criticism and interpretation, Guillaume de Machaut--Works
...his chosen model, the tale of Ceyx and Alcyone. For him this myth is simply a love story...while the birds represent both Ceyx and Alcyone by recreating their devoted marital relationship...visited with dreams that, like that of Alcyone, will present his case clearly, without...
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Rape, Crypt and Fantasm: Kleist's 'Marquise of O...
Journal article by Thomas Dutoit; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994
Subjects: Fantastic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Kleist, Heinrich von--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Traumatic shock--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Truth in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...selects Morpheus to appear to the widow Alcyone as the ghost of her husband "Ceyx...the figure of Ceyx. Also, Ceyxs wife, Alcyone, who was transformed into the halcyo...1977): 98-128. Shapiro, Gary. Alcyone. Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise and Women...
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Procne, Philomela, Tereus in Ovid's Metamorphoses: a Narratological Approach
Journal article by Philip S. Peek; Antichthon, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Scholars
...Cephalus and Procris, Philemon and Baucis, Pygmalion, Orpheus, Alcyone and Ceyx, Hecuba, often turn on whether the scholar sees...in which he analyzes Nestors Trojan tale and the Ceyx and Alcyone story, Hopkins explains this meaningful element: Ovids refusal...
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Magazine article by Thomas M. Disch; Skeptic, Vol. 6, 1998
...intuited that young Krishna, known in the spirit realm as Alcyone, had lived 30 lives already, ranging in time from 22,662...accorded to crackpot religions. Leadbeaters tales of his divine Alcyone soon put the teenage Krishnamurti on the theosophical map...
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Two Hundred Fifty Sisters
Magazine article by Joe Rao; Natural History, Vol. 107, December 1998
Subjects: Astronomy
...relatively young, and their stars are not so densely packed.) The nine brightest stars in the Pleiades are blue giants. Alcyone-the brightest of the group-is ten times larger, and nearly a thousand times more luminous, than our Sun. The entire...
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Reunions & Claims
Magazine article; VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, Vol. 88, September 2000
...392-1227 PCS 1390: Charles L. Whitney (402) 694-3181 Queensfish SS393 SSN651: Howard Evans (864) 226-0499 USS Alcyone AKA-7: Ray "Jack" Freeman (918) 756-1523 USS Bunker Hill CV-17 (all ships co, Marines sqdns): Albert Nadeau...
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(Les Musiciens Du Louvre. Lully's Phaeton)
Magazine article; Opera Canada, Vol. 35, Fall 1994
Subjects: Sound recording reviews Classical
...recordings of such wonders as Campras Tancrede, Charpentiers Medee and David et Jonathas; Leclairs Scylla et Glaucis; Marais Alcyone; Mondonvilles Titon et lAurore and Rameaus Les Boreades, Castor et Pollux, Les Indes Galantes, Les Paladins, Platee and...


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newspaper articles on: Alcyone  - 10 results

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All at Sea with a Passion
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 14, 2005
Subjects: Television programs--Television program reviews
...the sight of the distant sail of the HMS Alcyone created panic. Jared Harriss Captain...But heroics were not needed, for the Alcyone was another British warship en route for...and passengers of both. It was on the Alcyone that Edmund met Marion and, though no...
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The Glory of Athens; Land of Ancient Greek Gods Offers Warm Welcome in Winter
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 5, 2008
...these seven days of springlike weather: Alcyone, the daughter of Aeolus, king of the...When Ceyx drowned in a storm at sea, Alcyone was so distraught that she threw herself...changed them into kingfishers. In order for Alcyone to be able to make her nest and lay her...
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* Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, Presents the World Pre
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 3, 2011
...Theater, 66 E. Randolph St., Chicago. (312) 742-8497 or newleaftheatre.org. * Halcyon Theatre presents its annual Alcyone Festival, showcasing plays by emerging female writers, beginning Thursday, June 9, and continuing through July 10 at the...
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A Capital of Creativity; NEW GENERATION ARTS FESTIVAL Robin Dobson Talks to Richard McComb about the Exciting Programme of Events Planned in a Festival for Emerging Artists
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 14, 2007
Subjects: Business creativity, Festivals
...Birmingham. Supermodel Erin OConnor will attend the high-profile catwalk show at the Council House, Birmingham, on June 19; Alcyone Mick, a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, returns to the city to lead a jazz spectacular in the New Generation Arts...
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SPORTS FORUM; Your Response to the Latest Twists in the Row Threatening the NZ Clash
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 29, 2009
...be playing elsewhere, can I get a refund, and is everyone else happy to watch other fans walk away from regional rugby? ALCYONE IF most fans walked away (from regional rugby), why are crowds rising year on year? If you decide not to support regional...
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encyclopedia articles on: Alcyone  - 6 results

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Alcyone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALCYONE see Halcyone . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Lampman, Archibald
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...all his life, he was a noted nature poet. His work appeared in Among the Millet (1888), Lyrics of Earth (1893), and Alcyone (1899). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Cousteau, Jacques Yves
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...expeditions and wrote books and made film and television documentaries recording his trips. Teams aboard Calypso and, later, Alcyone, an experimental wind-propulsion vessel, navigated the ocean, studying the earths ecological systems. His publications...
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Pleiades , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...diameter of 35 light-years, and is 400 light-years distant from the earth. Six stars are easily visible to the naked eye Alcyone (the brightest), Electra, Celaeno, Sterope, Maia, and Taygete. Known as the Seven Sisters, this group was named by...
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Halcyone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HALCYONE halsi ne or Alcyone al , in Greek mythology, daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. When her husband drowned, Halcyone threw herself into the sea...
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