Studies In The Romance Languages And Literatures

Author : Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810142619
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictional Environments written by Victoria Saramago and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

Author : James Patty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171938
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvator Rosa in French Literature written by James Patty and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Author : Mario Pei
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Romance Philology and Literature written by Mario Pei and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Wisconsin. Dept. of Romance languages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies by Members of the Department of Romance Languages written by University of Wisconsin. Dept. of Romance languages and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Spitzer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the romance languages and literature written by Leo Spitzer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763590
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution written by Enzo Traverso and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it." –China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.

Author : David R. Castillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628923601
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medialogies written by David R. Castillo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a time of inflationary media. While technological change has periodically altered and advanced the ways humans process and transmit knowledge, for the last 100 years the media with which we produce, transmit, and record ideas have multiplied in kind, speed, and power. Saturation in media is provoking a crisis in how we perceive and understand reality. Media become inflationary when the scope of their representation of the world outgrows the confines of their culture's prior grasp of reality. We call the resulting concept of reality that emerges the culture's medialogy. Medialogies offers a highly innovative approach to the contemporary construction of reality in cultural, political, and economic domains. Castillo and Egginton, both luminary scholars, combine a very accessible style with profound theoretical analysis, relying not only on works of philosophy and political theory but also on novels, Hollywood films, and mass media phenomena. The book invites us to reconsider the way reality is constructed, and how truth, sovereignty, agency, and authority are understood from the everyday, philosophical, and political points of view. A powerful analysis of actuality, with its roots in early modernity, this work is crucial to understanding reality in the information age.

Author : Mary Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Miscellany of Studies in Romance Languages & Literatures Presented to Leon E. Kastner written by Mary Williams and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: