The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology

"The Prose Edda", or "Younger Edda", is a vintage selection of Norse myths of the Icelandic humans. generally regarded as compiled through Icelandic pupil and historian Snorri Sturluson round the yr 1220, "The Prose Edda" incorporates a euhemerized Prologue by way of 3 stories: the 'Gylfaginning', the tale of the production and destruction of the realm of the Norse gods; the 'Skáldskaparmál', includes a discussion among Ægir, a god linked to the ocean, and Bragi, a skaldic god; and the 'Háttatal', a suite of outdated Norse poetry together with unique compositions by way of Snorri Sturluson.

The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

What's experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the process literary heritage, and the way is it shaping literary expression this day? Literary scan has consistently been diversified and not easy, yet by no means extra so than in our age of electronic media and social networking, while the very class of the literary is coming below excessive strain.

Two Sisters: A Novel

Mary Hogan's strong and poignant debut novel approximately sisters--opposites in each way--plus their mom and the secrets and techniques and lies that outline them all.

One relatives, sisters, a life of secrets and techniques . . .

The 3rd baby in a relations that sought after basically , Muriel Sullivant has regularly been an intruder. brief, dark-haired and around, she worships her attractive blonde sister, Pia, and envies the shut bond she stocks with their mom, Lidia. transforming into up of their shadow, Muriel believes that if she retains all their secrets--and she is familiar with lots, outsiders constantly do--they will love her, too.

But that was once many years in the past. Now an grownup, Muriel has authorised the disappointments in her existence. along with her fourth-floor walk-up condo and entry-level long island urban task, she by no means will degree as much as Pia and her filthy rich husband, their daughter, and their suburban Connecticut dream domestic. Muriel would favor not anything higher than to prevent her judgmental kin altogether. something she does particularly well.

Until the day Pia exhibits as much as stopover at and proportion devastating information that Muriel is aware she can't tell--a mystery that might strength her to come back to phrases with the previous and aid her see her existence and her family members in unforeseen new methods.

The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830

Why are there so few "happily ever afters" within the Romantic-period verse romance? Why accomplish that many poets make the most of the romance and its components to such devastating influence? Why is gender so frequently the 1st sufferer? The Romantic Paradox investigates the superiority and demise within the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that knowing the romance and its violent traits is key to knowing Romanticism itself.