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21 produkter
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from …
Esthetics of the Moment
Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
E-bok, 2015
1181 kr
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The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and …
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
E-bok, 2013
1007 kr
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Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe …
Paperwork
Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
E-bok, 2011
1125 kr
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"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution-an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance-paper-that provides the basis …
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
E-bok, 2012
813 kr
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In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat-a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the …
Literary Criticism
An Autopsy
E-bok, 2013
488 kr
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As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as …
Institutions of the English Novel
From Defoe to Scott
Häftad, 1998
449 kr
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In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictional prose …
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
Häftad, 1997
344 kr
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Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
Literary Criticism
An Autopsy
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as …
Unbowed
An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism
Av Khalida Messaoudi, Elisabeth Schemla
Häftad, 1998
334 kr
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In 1993, a handwritten envelope arrived in Khalida Messaoudi's mailbox. In it was an official communique announcing that she had been condemned to death by the Islamic Salvation Front. This letter came after a series of threats and an attempt on her life in retaliation for her role as a leader of …
Esthetics of the Moment
Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1996
988 kr
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The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and …
Haunting Past
History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France
Av Henry Rousso
Inbunden, 2002
768 kr
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In The Haunting Past, French historian Henry Rousso discusses the varied and controversial treatments of French collaboration with the Nazis during the Vichy regime, focusing specifically on the roles played by historians, and history itself, in the postwar trials of accused collaborators.While …
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
Inbunden, 2002
731 kr
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In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat-a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the …
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
Inbunden, 2005
826 kr
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Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe …
Paperwork
Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
Inbunden, 2005
923 kr
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"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution-an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's phrase is suggestive because it points to the particular substance-paper-that provides the basis …
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Inbunden, 2006
923 kr
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Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from …
Caught on Camera
Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge
Av Christian Delage, Ralph Schoolcraft
Inbunden, 2013
932 kr
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When the Allied forces of World War II formed an international tribunal to prosecute Nazi war crimes, they introduced two major innovations to court procedure. The prosecution projected film footage and newsreels shot by British, Soviet, and American soldiers as they discovered Nazi camps. These …
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
E-bok, 2015
1331 kr
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Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial …
Institutions of the English Novel
From Defoe to Scott
E-bok, 2015
562 kr
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In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictional prose …
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
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Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
Inbunden, 2015
1108 kr
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Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial …
