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24 produkter
Reconstructing Woman
From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Inbunden, 2008
1471 kr
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Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a “new Pygmalion” (as Balzac calls one of his characters) turns away from a real woman he has loved or desired …
Reconstructing Woman
From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a “new Pygmalion” (as Balzac calls one of his characters) turns away from a real woman he has loved or desired …
Career Stories
Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development
Inbunden, 2008
902 kr
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In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction …
Career Stories
Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development
Häftad, 2007
691 kr
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In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction …
Territories of History
Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
Inbunden, 2008
902 kr
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Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz …
Territories of History
Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
Häftad, 2007
467 kr
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Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz …
Book of Peace
By Christine de Pizan
Av Karen Green, Constant J. Mews m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1661 kr
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Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put …
Book of Peace
By Christine de Pizan
Av Karen Green, Constant J. Mews m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
465 kr
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Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put …
Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal
Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933–1948
Inbunden, 2008
987 kr
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Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography, …
Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal
Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933–1948
Häftad, 2008
533 kr
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Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography, …
Rewriting Womanhood
Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903
Inbunden, 2009
1387 kr
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In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by …
Rewriting Womanhood
Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903
Häftad, 2009
691 kr
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In Rewriting Womanhood, Nancy LaGreca explores the subversive refigurings of womanhood in three novels by women writers: La hija del bandido (1887) by Refugio Barragán de Toscano (Mexico; 1846–1916), Blanca Sol (1888) by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Peru; 1845–1909), and Luz y sombra (1903) by …
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2009
1176 kr
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Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for ""Imperial Lyric"", which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on …
Imperial Lyric
New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain
Häftad, 2009
543 kr
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Present scholarly conversations about early European and global modernity have yet to acknowledge fully the significance of Spain and Spanish cultural production. Poetry and ideology in early modern Spain form the backdrop for Imperial Lyric, which seeks to address this shortcoming. Based on …
Love Cures
Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance
Inbunden, 2009
1522 kr
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What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal—to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are …
Love Cures
Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance
Häftad, 2009
817 kr
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What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal—to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are …
Weaving Narrative
Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance
Inbunden, 2010
1176 kr
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Enide's tattered dress and Erec's fabulous coronation robe; Yvain's nudity in the forest that prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval's fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in …
Weaving Narrative
Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance
Häftad, 2010
543 kr
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Enide's tattered dress and Erec's fabulous coronation robe; Yvain's nudity in the forest that prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval's fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to observe: just why is clothing so important in …
Manekine, John and Blonde, and “Foolish Generosity”
Inbunden, 2010
1041 kr
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Philippe de Remi (1200/1210-65) holds a remarkable position in the legacy of the thirteenth-century literary world. A layman, landholder, and professional administrator, rather than a court poet or member of the clergy, Philippe de Remi also wrote poems, songs, and long verse narratives that were …
Manekine, John and Blonde, and “Foolish Generosity”
Häftad, 2010
533 kr
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Philippe de Remi (1200/1210–65) holds a remarkable position in the legacy of the thirteenth-century literary world. A layman, landholder, and professional administrator, rather than a court poet or member of the clergy, Philippe de Remi wrote poems, songs, and long verse narratives that were …
Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives
Inbunden, 2010
1387 kr
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The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. In this book, Catherine Leglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that …
Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives
Häftad, 2010
691 kr
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The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the emergence of Catalan literary prose. In this book, Catherine Leglu brings together, for the first time in English, prose and verse texts that …
Transcending Textuality
Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
Inbunden, 2011
962 kr
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In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions …
Transcending Textuality
Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
Häftad, 2011
691 kr
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In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions …
