Book Description
Volume 197 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author : Raymond R. MacCurdy
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Volume 197 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author : Frank M. Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1969*
Category : Tragedy in literature
ISBN :
Author : Catherine S. Neal
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1137413573
Taking Down the Lion offers an inside look at the career of Tyco's most infamous CEO, and what exactly brought him down so publicly. As the widely-admired CEO of Tyco International, Dennis Kozlowski grew a little-known New Hampshire conglomerate into a global giant. In a stunning series of events, Kozlowski suddenly lost his job along with his favored public status when he was indicted by legendary Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau—it was an inglorious end to an otherwise brilliant career. Kozlowski was the face of corporate excess in the turbulent post-Enron environment; he was pictured under headlines that read "Oink Oink," and publicly castigated for his extravagant lifestyle. "Deal-a-Day Dennis" was transformed into the "poster child for corporate greed." Kozlowski was ultimately convicted of grand larceny and other crimes that, in sum, found the former CEO guilty of wrongfully taking $100 million from Tyco. Taking Down the Lion shines a bright light on former CEO Dennis Kozlowski and the Tyco corporate scandal—it is the definitive telling of a largely misunderstood episode in U.S. business history. In an unfiltered view of corporate America, Catherine S. Neal pulls back the curtain to reveal a world of big business, ambition, money, and an epidemic of questionable ethics that infected not only business dealings but extended to attorneys, journalists, politicians, and the criminal justice system. When the ugly truth is told, it's clear the "good guys" were not all good and the "bad guys" not all bad. And there were absolutely no heroes.
Author : Che Parker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Gangsters
ISBN : 1593092229
Following in his Italian father's gangster footsteps, the bi-racial Cicero Day has little problem rising to the top of the Kansas City underworld. He and his comrades deal with their enemies with all manner of weaponry: guns, knives, poison, trained beasts and even HIV. Yet, Cicero is haunted by recurring nightmares, and bothered with his mother's steadfast belief in God. Cicero, who is an atheist, feels there's no place for myths in a man's life who is trying to ascend to power. While he is the master of his domain and even viewed as a hero to some, there is an unseen kink in his seemingly impregnable armor.
Author : Karuna Shanker Misra
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9788172110369
The Tragic Hero through Ages is an illuminating work on the greatest Greek and English tragedies and their heroes. The first chapter deals with the Greek tragedies and their heroes. The next three chapters study the outstanding pre-Shakespearean, Shakespearean and post-Shakespearean tragedies and their heroes. The Miltonic and the Byronic heroes have been studied in fifth and sixth chapters, respectively. The closing chapter summarizes the whole work and many undiscovered facts have been brought to light. It is genuine contribution to the whole theory of Greek and English tragic drama. It embodies the most famous speeches and best scenes from the greatest Greek and English Tragedies: their short summaries and the lifelike portraits of their heroes. It is a running commentary on the Greek and English tragic drama, spreading over a span of 2500 years with all its charm and grandeur. It is a colossal work with the finish of an exquisite piece of jewellery.
Author : Raymond R. MacCurdy
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Volume 197 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author : Roy Arthur Swanson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820478807
In the course of an academic career spanning five decades, Professor Roy Arthur Swanson established himself as an internationally recognized scholar and outstanding teacher in Classics and literary studies. He is the author of five books and the co-author of three books, and has been active as an editor and contributor of articles and reviews to scholarly publications. Twelve former students, colleagues, and friends have contributed papers in honor of Professor Swanson's seventy-fifth birthday. These papers all touch on subjects close to his heart, ranging from Greek, Roman, Italian, Scandinavian, and German literary studies to modern pop culture.
Author : Agnar Mykle
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Raymond R. MacCurdy
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN : 9788439983521
Author : Patrick Downey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739101162
The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold society together? A means of comic detachment from a tragic world? Mimicry of transcendent truths? Potent acts of self-realization? From the Socratics to the Romantics, all of these opinions and more have been offered. In a pop-culture age in which we live out of the stories we tell, our culture needs a clear answer. In this masterful overview of the Western literary tradition, Patrick Downey traces how seriously philosophers and writers across the centuries, from Plato to Kierkegaard, have taken humanity’s attempts at self-authorship in tragedy and comedy. These attempts, Downey argues, only find resolution in history’s most significant work of literature: the Bible. Setting all other literature in its right place, the Bible and the gospel it proclaims take us beyond literature to the true story of reality, providing what the philosophers and poets have sought for all along: a serious comedy.