The Cherokee Rose , written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArthur “genius grant”, examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three contemporary young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty, and equally extraordinary compassion, are played out. Tiya Miles has been selected for Ebony Magazine ’s «Po ...
Was hat ein Chip im Gehirn eines modernen Menschen mit dem Bericht einer jungen Griechin zu tun, die vor 2500 Jahren eine Schiffsreise auf dem Mittelmeer unternimmt, verlorengegangene Papyrusrollen sucht und dabei mit einigen ihrer beruhmten Zeitgenossen Bekanntschaft macht? Die Antwort lautet: Eigentlich nichts – und doch sind wir plotzlich mittendrin in einer Welt, von der wir nicht wissen, ob sie real ist oder nur virtuell … ...
Joe Harper ('Pop Pop') is a beloved grandfather, decorated war hero, and family patriarch. He is loved and respected by everyone that knows him especially his family but a stroke has brought his past under a cloud of suspicion because Joe came out of a coma no longer able to speak but has been heard murmuring German, a language he does not know. The Grandfather weaves the story of Joe's Harper from his heroic war efforts in WWII a ...
When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life. What followed in the years after that journey could not have been foreseen by Peter or his countrymen. In 1941, the Ukraine was invaded by Hitler’s army and remained under its control until its retreat two years later, taking Peter and his young fami ...
It tells the story of the knight Cliges and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Because of the story's de-romanticized depiction of adultery, it has been called a criticism or parody of the Tristan and Isolde romances. Cliges scholar Lucie Polak not only verifies the Tristan and Isolde reworking found in the text, but also suggests that Cliges may be modeled after Ovid's character Narcissus. Chretien's works include five m ...
The action centers on Lancelot's rescue of the queen after she has been abducted by Meleagant, the son of Bademagu. The Abduction of Guinevere is one of the oldest motifs in Arthurian legend, appearing also in Caradoc of Llancarfan's Life of Gildas and carved on the archivolt in Modena Cathedral. Chretien's works include five major poems in rhyming eight-syllable couplets. Four of these are complete; 'Erec and Enide' (c. ...
This novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the book's first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials 'H. F.' The novel probably was b ...
Erec et Enide features many of the common elements of Arthurian romance, such as Arthurian characters, the knightly quest, and women or love as a catalyst to action. While it is not the first story to use conventions of the Arthurian characters and setting, Chretien de Troyes is credited with the invention of the Arthurian romance genre by establishing expectation with his contemporary audience based on its prior knowledge of the subjects. ...
<li>Nearly 1 in 5 students (21%) report being bullied during the school year, impacting over 5 million youth annually (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2018)</li> <li>Essential resistance to bullying comes out of core strength, and <i>Down to the Potter’s House</i> is a portrayal and model of core strength <li>Students who experienced bullying a ...
