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Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State

Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State
Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State By Bruce Lincoln
2014 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 022614092X | PDF | 2 MB
All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding narratives invite revisionist retellings that modify details of the story in ways that undercut, ironize, and even ridicule the state's ideal self-representation. Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process.Taking the story of how Harald Fairhair unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example, Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state's foundation story blurs the distinction between history and myth and how variant tellings of origin stories provide opportunities for dissidence and subversion as subtle-or not so subtle-modifications are introduced through details of character, incident, and Description structure. Lincoln reveals a pattern whereby texts written in Iceland were more critical and infinitely more subtle than those produced in Norway, reflecting the fact that the former had a dual audience: not just the Norwegian court, but also Icelanders of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, whose ancestors had fled from Harald and founded the only non-monarchic, indeed anti-monarchic, state in medieval Europe.Between History and Myth will appeal not only to specialists in Scandinavian literature and history but also to anyone interested in memory and narrative.

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Berlioz on Music Selected Criticism 1824-1837

Berlioz on Music Selected Criticism 1824-1837
Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 by Hector Berlioz, edited by Katherine Kolb, translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg
English | March 11, 2015 | ISBN: 0199391955 | True EPUB | 324 pages | 0.7/4.6 MB
The quintessential Romantic artist of his century, Hector Berlioz impressed Paganini and Liszt as "Beethoven's only heir" and dazzled the young Wagner as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. To Paris and all Europe, Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, yet there has been no English-language anthology of his criticism available until now.

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Beauvoir and The Second Sex Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism

Beauvoir and The Second Sex Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism
Margaret A. Simons, "Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism"
English | 2000 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0847692566, 0742512460 | EPUB | 1,4 mb
In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her hand-written diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the theoretical model of oppression that she used in The Second Sex; shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy and in laying the theoretical foundations of radical feminism; and addresses feminist issues of racism, motherhood, and lesbian identity.

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Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain by Paul Corfield
English | June 14, 2021 | ISBN: 1955459843 | 128 pages | EPUB | 3.32 Mb
Another look at one of the battles during WW2, where Hitler thought he could invade and conquer during his reign of terror on the world. He decided to try and knock out the Royal Air Force of Britain. He was not expecting the resistance that the British Air Force and Navy were to give him in his quest for annihilation of Great Britain.

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