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Creative Tensions
Introduction to Seventeenth-century French Literature
Häftad, 1997
431 kr
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The primary aim of this book is to provide an introduction, principally for students but also for the general reader, to 17th-century French writing. Nicholas Hammond shows in eight vignettes what made this period a golden age of French drama, philosophy, and creativity. He argues that, rather than …
Search for Enlightenment
Introduction to Eighteenth-century French Writing
Häftad, 1999
431 kr
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This up-to-date introduction to the French Enlightenment corrects the view that the writers of the period were a mere stopover to modernity. It discusses current debates that A-level and first-year students need to know today. Voltaire agonised over the fact that his 'age of critique' followed …
Challenges of Uncertainty
Introduction to Seventeenth-century Spanish Literature
Häftad, 1998
467 kr
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An introduction to Spanish Baroque literature and culture, this text considers works by major Spanish novelists, dramatists, poets and painters. It covers issues such as honour and identity, the influence of the court, social and literary institutions, and the place of women in cultural life.
French Cinema Since 1950
Personal Histories
Av Emma Wilson
Häftad, 1999
367 kr
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Providing a modern introduction to French cinema, this book describes the French passion for histories in images that gave birth to the 'Nouvelle Vague' and which is still felt today. The post-war period is the first time French directors think consciously of the idea of cinema in the first person, …
Introduction to Twentieth-century French Literature
Häftad, 2002
463 kr
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In this accessible guide, Victoria Best explores the turbulent twentieth century in France through its literature, introducing the works that created fresh perspectives on the human condition in an age of rapid change and insecurity. Challenging and experimental, modern French writing reflects the …
Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature
A Difficult Modernity
Häftad, 2005
431 kr
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Short accessible introductions to European literature and culture. Twentieth-century Italy was marked by a profound and often convulsive transformation in both society and culture, accompanied at various stages by war, violence and dictatorship. This was Italy's 'difficult' entry into modernity. …
Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought
Other Times, Other Places
Av Neil Kenny, Nicholas Hammond
Häftad, 2008
431 kr
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The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's "Essays", Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and …
