Mythology: our poems, our novels, and even our daily journals teem with classical allusions; nor can a visit to our art galleries and museums be fully enjoyed without something more than a mere superficial knowledge of a subject which has in all ages inspired painters, sculptors, and poets.
Гарт Фрэнсис Брет (Harte Francis Bret) - The Luck of Roaring Camp Mp3 + text Гарт, Фрэнсис Брет (Брет Гарт) [1836—1902] - американский писатель. Stories like “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and “The Idyl of Red Gulch” have a serious interest as pictures of a phase of American life which already seems far away; but their attractiveness is still more due to the skill they display in the sketching of types, to the pathos which they reveal in the most unlikely characters, and to the restraint and concentration with which the stories are told. (Bartleby. Com). .
This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they are uttered, and specifically, how metaphorical interpretation involves the articulation of asserted, implied and presupposed material. It supplements this semantic analysis with a practice-based account of metaphor at the conceptual level, which stresses the role of sociocultural factors in concept formation.
Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and sees to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, "to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets". This seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabocov's dizzying masterpiece, which is suffused with a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures.
Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess and a handsome prince. It is the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma Mère l'Oye ("Tales of Mother Goose"). While Perrault's version is better known, an older version, the tale "Sun, Moon, and Talia", was contained in Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone, published in 1634 The most familiar Sleeping Beauty in the English speaking world has become the 1959 Walt Disney animated film, which draws as much from Tchaikovsky's ballet (premiered at Saint Petersburg in 1890) as it does from Perrault.
Гарт Фрэнсис Брет (Harte Francis Bret) - The Luck of Roaring Camp 
