Paths To Contemporary French Literature Part 1 What Is And What Might Be Part 2 Of Amorous Captivity Part 3 Forms Of Commitment Part 4 Narrative Arithmetic Part 5 Hommes De Lettres In The Mirror

Author : John Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780765802163
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Paths to Contemporary French Literature: Part 1. What is, and what might be ; Part 2: Of amorous captivity ; Part 3: Forms of commitment ; Part 4: Narrative arithmetic ; Part 5: Hommes de lettres in the mirror written by John Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412804795
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths to Contemporary French Literature, Volume 1 written by John Taylor and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the great French novelists of the last two centuries are widely read in America, there is a widespread notion that little of importance has happened in French literature since the heyday of Sartre, Camus, and the nouveau roman. Some might argue that even well read Americans are ignorant about what is happening in European literature generally. Certainly, there has never been so few translations of foreign books in the United States, or so little coverage of foreign writers. Curious American readers need new, up-to-date information and analyses about what is happening elsewhere. Paths to Contemporary French Literature is a stimulating and much-needed guide to the major currents of one of the world's great literatures. This critical panorama of contemporary French literature introduces English-language readers to over fifty important writers and poets, many of whom are still little known outside of France. Emphasizing authors who are admired by their peers (as opposed to those with overnight reputations), John Taylor offers a compelling insider's view. The pioneering essays included in this book offer incisive analyses of the ideas motivating current writing and delve into a writer's or poet's entire output. Although some names may be familiar (Marguerite Duras, Hulne Cixous, Philippe Jaccottet, Henri Michaux), the reader obtains fresh reappraisals of their seminal work. Especially noteworthy, however, are Taylor's lively introductions to many other key writers who either have not yet crossed the English Channel, let alone the Atlantic. Combating the notion that French literature is overtly intellectual, inaccessible, or interested only in formal experimentation, Taylor shows that many French writers are instead acutely inquisitive about the outside world, shrewd observers of reality, even very funny. Although not conceived as a reference book, the volume possesses some qualities of a reference work: a good bibliography, reliable dates and biographical facts. Paths to Contemporary French Literature will be of interest to students of French literature and culture, literary scholars, and readers of contemporary fiction and poetry.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307833100
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness and Civilization written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473374081
Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421414724
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Grammatology written by Jacques Derrida and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343503123
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of written by Voltaire and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leland Poague
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135575347
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Susan Sontag written by Leland Poague and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accompanied by an annotated bibliography.

Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465549943
Total Pages : 1547 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the French Novel: From the Beginning to the Close of the 19th Century (Complete) written by George Saintsbury and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 1547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Everist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577075
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medieval Music written by Mark Everist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a millennium of musical history, this monumental volume brings together nearly forty leading authorities to survey the music of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. All of the major aspects of medieval music are considered, making use of the latest research and thinking to discuss everything from the earliest genres of chant, through the music of the liturgy, to the riches of the vernacular song of the trouvères and troubadours. Alongside this account of the core repertory of monophony, The Cambridge History of Medieval Music tells the story of the birth of polyphonic music, and studies the genres of organum, conductus, motet and polyphonic song. Key composers of the period are introduced, such as Leoninus, Perotinus, Adam de la Halle, Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut, and other chapters examine topics ranging from musical theory and performance to institutions, culture and collections.