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Salvador Jiménez Murguía

Epic Fails

2018

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Preface

„… Epic FailsEpic FailsThe Edsel, the Mullet, and Other Icons of Unpopular CultureSalvador Jimenez …” „… what Americans most strive for and what they most fear. Epic fails, as I describe them, are not only …” „… eighteen chronologically arranged chapters, Epic Fails ad-dresses failure in such fields as sports …”

CHAPTER 9. Bud Dry S. 55-58

„… it an epic failure? Not at first, but the story of Bud Dry’s gradual decline does provide something …”

CHAPTER 13. WOW Chips S. 83-90

„… that Frito-Lay failed to give consumers enough reason to keep coming back for more.Few epic failures in …”

CHAPTER 18. Google Wave S. 124-130

„… success—constitutes a kind of subjective failure of epic proportions.Although it would be a daunting task to pinpoint …”

CHAPTER 1. The Edsel S. 1-8

„… remarks,This is a story that has continued to fascinate people as few other epic disasters in modern history …”

CHAPTER 15. XFL S. 100-109

„… again to try to replicate that appeal in another established sport, I would bet on not only another epic …”

doi.org/10.5771/9781538103722

Julian Rentzsch, Petr Kučera - Texts, Contexts, Intertexts

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Julian Rentzsch (ed.), Petr Kučera (ed.)

Texts, Contexts, Intertexts

Series: Studien zur Turkologie und Orientalistik | Turkic and Oriental Studies

Volume 1 2022

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Julian Rentzsch A Modern Urban Epic: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın S. 333-392

„… transformation into a modern urban epic.Plot and CastKırmızı Saçlı Kadın tells the story of the life and death of …” „… EpicWhile the above-mentioned notions körlük, öfke, pişmanlık and kader are explicitly discussed in KSK in …” „… A Modern Urban Epic: Kırmızı Saçlı KadınJulian RentzschΠροοίμιονOrhan Pamuk deserves the title …”

Julian Rentzsch, Petr Kučera Introduction S. 7-14

„… and transforming it into a modern urban epic.Political aspects of Pamuk’s fiction are addressed in …” „… narrations (The Black Book, The New Life), or modern epic (The Red-Haired Woman). While Pamuk started with a …” „… playfully drawing on elements of myth and epic (The Red-Haired Woman), and a finely constructed microcosmos …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… Museum of Innocence 317Aysel ÖzdilekA Modern Urban Epic: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın 333Julian …”

Erdağ Göknar The Limits of “Whiteness” in Orhan Pamuk’s Fiction S. 113-128

„… epic that depicts the transformation of popular life and connects great social events and the …” „… through his fiction. His eleven novels chronicle an ironic epic of the incarnation of a “postcolonial …”

Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu-Yanaşmayan The Art of Talking About Unimportant Things: Reading Nights of Plague as a Historiographic Metafiction S. 421-436

„… analysis, Jale Parla marks Nights of Plague as a “modern epic”.19 According to Barış Özkul, Nights of …” „… nor a modern epic. It is indeed a political novel, not because it indirectly addresses Turkish history …”

Petr Kučera, Johanna Chovanec Caught in the Text: Authenticity, Originality and Intertextuality in Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book and Istanbul S. 261-316

„… core of his fiction. The opulent narrative of epic dimensions, Pamuk’s magnum opus, The Black Book …” „… Black Book is also an Istanbul epic, something Pamuk called his “personal encyclopedia of Istanbul,”7 in …” „… and Johanna Chovanec274Beautiful though it is, I find the language of epic unconvincing, for I cannot …”

Gunvald Axner Ims Under the Surface of Pamuk’s Autofiction S. 51-68

„… Pamuk’s novels are said tochronicle an ironically modernist epic of the incarnation of the dissident …”

Simge Yılmaz Orhan Pamuk’s Authorial Image in the German-Speaking Publishing Market S. 453-480

„… that unlike Yaşar Kemal, who depicts rural Turkey in epic breadth and with recourse to Turkish and …”

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Stefan Tilg, Anna Novokhatko - Antikes Heldentum in der Moderne: Konzepte, Praktiken

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Antikes Heldentum in der Moderne: Konzepte, Praktiken

Series: Paradeigmata

Volume 55; IX 2019

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Eva von Contzen the (Epic) List: Catalogues of Heroes and Literary Form from Homer to Omeros S. 231-256

„… heroes have been legion in epic poetry. This also applies to the epic sub-genre of biblical epics, which …” „… came into being in late Antiquity. Bible epics retain the traditional elements of epic poetry but have …” „… EVA VON CONTZENOn the (Epic) List: Catalogues of Heroes and Literary Form from Homer to OmerosIn an …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… the (Epic) List: Catalogues of Heroes and Literary Form from Homer to Omeros …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783968219424

Angelika Neuwirth, Michael Hess, Judith Pfeiffer, Börte Sagaster - Ghazal as World Literature II

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Angelika Neuwirth (ed.), Michael Hess (ed.), Judith Pfeiffer (ed.), Börte Sagaster (ed.)

Ghazal as World Literature II

Series: Istanbuler Texte und Studien (ITS)

Volume 4 2006

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Anna Krasnowolska The Epic roots of lyrical imagery in classical Persian poetry S. 109-120

„… The Epic roots of lyrical imagery in classical Persian poetry Anna Krasnowolska Origins The …” „… ParvÐz. Their compositions have not survived, but references in historical and epic sources show that …” „… Persian epic poetry, which, from the formal point of view (being composed not with a single rhyme as the …”

Franklin Lewis The Transformation of the Persian Ghazal: From Amatory Mood to Fixed Form S. 121-140

„… mathnawÐ, whether on epic, romantic, mystical or didactic themes; and 4) prose7. Elsewhere, he includes …” „… encomium, elegy, and the epigram. Likewise, the mathnawÐ is a prosodic form, but the epic “genre” (as …” „… was based on an amalgam of prevailing moods (epic, comedy, tragedy) as well as principles of …”

Subject Index S. 335-344

„… enlightenment 259 epic xxii, 109, 114, 119, 123, 253 Erlebnisgedicht 238 eros 311 eroticism, erotic xxvii …” „… , 311 poetry, epic xxvii poetry, love 4, 43-44 poetry, medieval xxvii poetry, oral 126 poetry …” „… verse epic 242 verse, macaronic 127 virgins of paradise 62-63, 305 vocalization 215 vocative 33 …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis

„… Krasnowolska: The epic roots of lyrical imagery in classical Persian poetry...............................109 …” „… , eastern mythology and especially the ShÁhnÁma, or royal epics, which are the primary sources for …”

Tunca Kortantamer The Function of Metaphors in the Relationship between Meaning and Structure in the gazel Poem S. 185-196

„… , epic, social and geographic material, and also everything in divan literature concerning man, nature …” „… , passionate (â¢ kâne), Epicurean (rindâne) and philosophical (hikemî) manners and styles, which bear the name …”

Michael Reinhard Hess Interdisciplinary Readings of Näsīmī’s Turkic Ghazals S. 211-231

„… ): “Âlemî dutd¤ bu gün husn-¤ ruhün destân¤; Âferîn husnüne ey fitne-i devrÁn, berü gel!”141 “The epic …”

Hartmut Bobzin Rückert as translator and imitator of Persian ghazal poetry S. 285-294

„… Heidelberg, he was taught by Johann Heinrich Voss,2 famous for his translations of Homer’s epics. In 1811 he …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783956506932

Peter E. Dans - Christians in the Movies

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Peter E. Dans

Christians in the Movies

2009

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CHAPTER 05. THE AGE OF THE EPIC: THE 1950S S. 107-148

„… were to have profound effects a decade later.CHAPTER FIVETHE AGE OF THE EPIC: THE 1950S11_055_Dans.indb …” „… 11_055_Dans.indb 108 2/24/11 1:47 PMTHE AGE OF THE EPIC: THE 1950S109programs. Another form of …” „… produced a series of top-flight religious-themed films. A number were epic blockbusters, such as Quo Vadis …”

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY S. 381-390

„… Scott Blasts Blind Faith in Epic Film about the Crusades,” Baltimore Sun (May 1, 2005), p. 2F …” „… : American Epic (TV Documentary), 2004IMDbLatin MassThe Patron Saints IndexRotten …”

Preface

„… B. DeMille–style epic—the spectacle and extravaganza, the biblical block-buster—that dominated the …” „… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105CHAPTER FIVE The Age of the Epic: The 1950s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107The FilmsStars in My …” „… King of Religious Epics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 The Fatima Story …”

CHAPTER 10. AMAZING GRACE: 2000 TO THE PRESENT S. 297-348

„… ); and homosexuality among cowboys (Brokeback Mountain, 2005). Epic fantasy films also remained popular …” „… good guys. This was quite different from Cecil B. DeMille’s 1933 epic The Crusades, which was much more …” „… only His hands.In the age of the religious epic, even an actor of the stature of Charlton Heston, who …”

CHAPTER 02. PIETY AND PASSION: THE SILENT ERA S. 15-34

„… king of epic extravaganza. DeMille took many liberties with the bibli-cal texts enabling him to blend …”

CHAPTER 07. THE FLOWER CHILDREN’S HOUR: THE 1970S S. 193-218

„… . It’s like an extended Saturday Night Live send-up or a very British prep school spoof of an epic movie …”

CHAPTER 06. THE TIMES, THEY ARE A’CHANGIN’: THE 1960S S. 149-192

„… film more than earns its sobriquet as a “sword and sandal epic” with its gladiator scenes that outdo …” „… keeping. It is Barabbas.”CommentaryOne of the lesser-known Roman epics, the film benefits from its …”

CHAPTER 03. HE AIN’T HEAVY, HE’S MY BROTHER: THE 1930S S. 35-62

„… biblical epics were produced in the early 1930s, most notably The Sign of the Cross and The Crusades, these …” „… anticipates such epics as Quo Vadis and The Robe, involves the pagan Marcus Superbus (Fredric March) as …”

CHAPTER 01. PORTRAYING CHRISTIANS IN FILM S. 1-14

„… epics are his enduring legacy, responded, “Why let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?”That the …”

doi.org/10.5771/9780742570320

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