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Winged words : flight in poetry and history
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ISBN: 0226065618 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

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Flight has always fascinated human minds, but until a century ago it remained a dream& the exclusive domain of birds, gods, and mythological heroes. From the myths of the ancients to the poetry of Pindar and Yeats, 'Winged Words' traces the imprint of the human impulse to fly from premodern times to the age of terrorism in both literature and history. Piero Boitani begins his analysis with an account of the way the myths of Pegasus and Icarus have persisted from classical to twentieth-century politics and literature. He then takes up the figure of Hermes; the roles of halcyons and eagles in classical, biblical, and later literatures; and literary response to Pieter Brueghel's 'The Fall of Icarus'. Honing in on modern figures and concerns, Boitani also offers a fascinating discussion of author-pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupe;ry and concludes with a meditation on the flight of the hijacked airliners on 9/11. Throughout, 'Winged Word' brings a remarkable range of men of action, politicians, theologians, writers, and artists into dialogue with each other: Shakespeare with T. S. Eliot, Horace with Ovid, Leonardo with Milton, Leopardi with Mallarme;, Saint-Exupe;ry with Faulkner and Rilke, and the Ulysses of Homer with the Ulysses of Dante. Ultimately, by showing how writers and fliers have looked to the ancients for inspiration, Boitani testifies to the modern relevance of poetry and the classics.' '


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Confinement and flight : an essay on English literature of the 18th century
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Year: 1977 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,

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Romantics and the Era of Early Flight
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ISBN: 9783031187728 9783031187711 9783031187735 9783031187742 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers with a new code of metaphors, but as colleagues engaged in similarly imaginative enterprises. The book uncovers an 'aerial imagination' shared by a large number of writers in the Romantic period that has its origins in the balloon adventures of the 1780s and following two decades. It will appeal to scholars and students of Romantic cultural history, as well as those interested in Romantic poetry and the history of early aeronautics. John Gilroy was formerly a senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and panel tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, UK, where he served as a course director for many years.


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Poétiques du voyage aérien dans la littérature
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ISBN: 9782812447365 Year: 2015 Publisher: Paris : Classiques Garnier,

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Une étude des mythes et des représentations littéraires et cinématographiques du voyage aérien, de l'Occident à l'océan Indien. ©Electre 2015

Seeing earth : literary responses to space exploration
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ISBN: 0821407910 Year: 1985 Publisher: Athens Ohio university press

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Der Traum vom Fliegen in der Antike
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ISBN: 3515069658 9783515069656 Year: 1997 Volume: 62 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner,

La chasse-galerie, de la légende au mythe : la symbolique du vol magique dans les récits québécois de chasse-galerie.
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ISBN: 2892610567 Year: 1992 Publisher: Montréal : XYZ,


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Élévations : l'écriture du voyage aérien à la Renaissance
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ISBN: 9782600015004 2600015000 Year: 2011 Volume: 489 Publisher: Genève Droz

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Prix de Thèse 2010 de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. Voyageurs en songe ou en extase, explorateurs de lunes et de paradis, curieux portés par les ailes de l'esprit, sorcières et démons voyageurs, chevaliers parcourant le monde à bord d’hippopotames volants... La Renaissance est riche en récits et rêveries d’envol, comme le montre cette «pré-histoire» inédite du voyage aérien, qui s’achève (et non débute) avec les fictions lunaires du premier XVIIe siècle. Accordant une large place aux héritages antiques et médiévaux, l’étude explore le champ de la fiction narrative française et européenne ainsi que celui des discours savants abordant la question du vol et de l’élévation (cosmographie, astronomie, magie, démonologie, etc.). Ainsi se révèle, dans ce dialogue entre littérature et savoirs, la vigueur de l’imaginaire du vol à la Renaissance et la richesse des récits d’élévation, ces fictions du décentrement par excellence, qui permettent de dominer la Terre du regard comme d’imaginer des mondes «excentriques». Fables superlatives, les récits de voyages aériens invitent également à interroger les conceptions renaissantes de la fiction romanesque et du vraisemblable, dont ils constituent un cas privilégié de la mise à l’épreuve.


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