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18 produkter
Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering ISE
Av Giorgio Rizzoni, James Kearns
Häftad, 2021
768 kr
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Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering provides an overview of the electrical engineering discipline specifically geared toward non-electrical engineering students. The hallmark feature of the text is its use of practical applications to illustrate important principles. The …
Guide to French Literature
From Early Modern to Postmodern
Av Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
Häftad, 1997
659 kr
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In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading …
Theophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists
Art Journalism of the Second Republic
Av James Kearns
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book presents a study of Theophile Gautier's art journalism written during the Second Republic and provides a reassessment of Gautier's importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture. It charts his response to the major art events and debates on Salons.
Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis
Mental States and Conceptual Worlds
Av James Kearns
Inbunden, 2025
2893 kr
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Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis engages with Virginia Woolf’s writings in the context of her own unique methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that this preoccupation with the metaphysics of “wholeness,” a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation and what …
Virginia Woolf's Microgenesis
Mental States and Conceptual Worlds
Av James Kearns
E-bok, 2025
935 kr
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Virginia Woolf’s Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolf’s preoccupation with the metaphysics of “wholeness,” a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation, and of what endures, places her …
Guide to French Literature
From Early Modern to Postmodern
Av Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
E-bok, 1997
702 kr
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In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading …
Theophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists
Art Journalism of the Second Republic
Av James Kearns
E-bok, 2017
838 kr
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"Theophile Gautier a envoye avec un feuilleton plus de trois mille personnes dans latelier de M. Ingres, wrote Champfleury in 1848. For artists, critics and readers alike, Gautier was the essential figure in French art journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. During the short-lived but pivotal …
Theophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists
Art Journalism of the Second Republic
Av James Kearns
E-bok, 2017
856 kr
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"Theophile Gautier a envoye avec un feuilleton plus de trois mille personnes dans latelier de M. Ingres, wrote Champfleury in 1848. For artists, critics and readers alike, Gautier was the essential figure in French art journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. During the short-lived but pivotal …
Theophile Gautier, Orator to the Artists
Art Journalism of the Second Republic
Av James Kearns
Inbunden, 2007
1547 kr
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This book presents a study of Theophile Gautier's art journalism written during the Second Republic and provides a reassessment of Gautier's importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture. It charts his response to the major art events and debates on Salons.
On the Subject of Fallen Things
Av James Kearns
Häftad, 2023
163 kr
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'you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun.'On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with black humour. James Kearns’ speaker keeps company …
On the Subject of Fallen Things
Av James Kearns
E-bok, 2023
78 kr
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"you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun."On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with black humour. James Kearns'' speaker keeps company …
Paris Fine Art Salon/Le Salon, 1791–1881
Häftad, 2015
1305 kr
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Following on from « Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène »: Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791–1890, published in 2010 as an earlier volume in this series, this volume contains a selection of the papers given at the first major international conference to be held on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art …
Walking and the French Romantics
Rousseau to Sand and Hugo
Av Christopher W. Thompson, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
713 kr
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Walking and the French Romantics explores for the first time the relationship between walking and Romanticism in France. It maps this relationship as theme and practice, no social history of pedestrian tours in nineteenth-century France having been written. In this connection, the legacy of …
Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière
Av Jelka Samsom, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
900 kr
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The novels published by Isabelle de Charrière before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian psychoanalysis of the neurologist and psychiatrist Heinz Kohut (1913-81) is used in this study as a means …
Consumable Metaphors
Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Ceri Crossley, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1101 kr
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This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some well known (for example, Michelet and Lamartine), others largely forgotten (for example, Gleizes and …
Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène
Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791-1890
Av James Kearns
Häftad, 2009
639 kr
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Exposition organisée par l’État jusqu’en 1881, grande fête annuelle ou bisannuelle de l’art, le Salon de peinture et de sculpture domine la vie artistique à Paris tout au long du dix-neuvième siècle. Dans l’historiographie de la modernité artistique, cependant, le rôle de ce « Salon à quoi tout se …
L'ecriture Du Regard Dans La Repraesentation De La Passion Amoureuse Et Du Daesir
Etude Comparative D'oeuvres Choisies De Madame De Lafayette, Rousseau, Stendahl Et Duras
Av Sandrine Léopold, Robin Howells m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
1447 kr
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Cet ouvrage se penche sur le regard comme thème récurrent dans les œuvres suivantes : La Princesse de Clèves , La Nouvelle Héloïse , La Chartreuse de Parme et Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein . Comment s’explique la place centrale qu’occupe le regard dans les scènes les plus importantes de ces romans …
Playing Simplicity
Polemical Stupidity in the Writing of the French Enlightenment
Av Robin Howells, James Kearns
Häftad, 2002
778 kr
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Polemical stupidity – a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin – denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does not understand the world, thus unmasking its incoherence. But in literature it can cover too the …
