The Present of Antiquity. Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture, Edition français-anglais-espagnol
Extraits
Non classé
Prisons and Idylls
Critical attempts to evaluate Kleist's fictional world, e.g. as ordered or disordered, accessible or resistant to reason, face a hermeneutic problem : the material and psychological embeddedness of the characters in the very world they seek to understand. This problem is reflected not only in the less-than-omniscient perspective of Kleist's narrators, but also in the reader's confrontation with competing readings of events in terms of mythic absolutes and with the opaquely concrete quality of spatial metaphors. In this light, three new interpretations offer insight into such problems as the nature of the idyll in "Das Erdbeben in Chili," the Marquise von O...'s creative self-imprisonment, and the gypsy's apparently supernatural intervention in Kohlhaas' quest. Finally, the book presents a dynamic typology of spatial phenomena in the stories which accounts for Kleist's concern with the interpretive process as opposed to its presumed endpoint.
12/1985
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Sciences de la terre et de la
SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS. Worlds in their own right, Second Edition
"Rothery does an excellent job of synthesizing the research inspired by the Voyager missions into a coherent description of outer solar system geology." -Jonathan I. Lunine, Sky & Telescope
"A highly readable, respectably accurate and complete nontechnical summary of planetary satellites for general and scientific audiences."
-Paul M. Schenk, Icarus
"Rothery brings these satellites to life."
-David Hughes, New Scientist.
"The depth and authority of the treatment of physical geological processes makes this a good introduction to the outer satellites for undergraduate students, while the clarity of the text ensures that things do not become too complicated for less expert readers."
-Lionel Wilson, Times Higher Eduation Supplement.
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of this acclaimed geological guide to the outer solar system includes results and close-up color and black-and-white images from both the 1995-1999 Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Voyager space probe. Rothery explains the geological aspects of the major satellites of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Neptune and the Pluto-Charon system. In particular he shows how tectonic and volcanic processes, driven by heat from within, have shaped the rigid outer layers of these worlds. Rothery also discusses the similarities and differences among them and the ways in which they resemble Earth-like planets.
01/1999
Histoire internationale
After The Last Ship
After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of ‘mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as ‘half-caste', ‘canecos' and ‘monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.
04/2014
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Littérature française
REVUE PRESENCE AFRICAINE N°181-182 - Centenaire Alioune DIOP
Centenaire Alioune Diop -Colloque du 3 au 5 mai 2010 (Dakar) DISCOURS D'OUVERTURE / OPENING ADDRESSES Son Excellence, Maître Abdoulaye WADE, Président de la République du Sénégal. Wole SOYINKA, écrivain, président de la Communauté Africaine de Culture : "Alioune Diop - At the Centennial" Abdou DIOUF, secrétaire général de la Francophonie Assane SECK, président de la Communauté Africaine de Culture, section sénégalaise (CAC-SEN Yandé C. DIOP, directrice de Présence Africaine Editions, secrétaire générale de la Communauté Africaine de Culture. Panel I : PRESENCE AFRICAINE : DECOLONISATION ET DEVENIR CULTUREL DE L'AFRIQUE ET DE SES DIASPORAS. PRESENCE AFRICAINE : DECOLONIZATION AND THE CULTURAL FUTURE OF AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORAS. Panel II : PEUT-ON PARLER AUJOURD'HUI DU PANAFRICANISME ET DU MONDE NOIR ? PANAFRICANISM AND THE BLACK WORLD TODAY ? Panel III : LE ROLE SPECIFIQUE DES INTELLECTUELS AFRICAINS DANS L'ACTUALISATION DU PROJET ALIOUNE DIOP. THE SPECIFIC ROLE OF AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN THE UP-DATING OF ALIOUNE DIOP'S PROJECT. Panel IV : ACTUALITE DU PROJET PRESENCE AFRICAINE DANS LA PRODUCTION ET LA DIFFUSION DES SAVOIRS AU XXIE SIECLE CURRENT INTEREST OF THE PRESENCE AFRICAINE PROJECT IN THE PRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Panel V : DIALOGUE AVEC LES JEUNES. ACTUALITE DU PROJET PRESENCE AFRICAINE : LA QUESTION DE LA TRANSMISSION DES MEMOIRES DIALOGUE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. RELEVANCE OF THE PRESENCE AFRICAINE PROJECT : TRANSMITTING MEMORY DISCOURS DE CLÔTURE/CLOSING ADDRESSES Théophile OBENGA, égyptologue Noureïni TIDJANI-SERPOS Sous-Directeur général de l'UNESCO pour l'Afrique, président du comité de soutien de la Communauté Africaine de Culture - Discours de remerciements SERIGNE MAMADOU BOUSSO LEYE, ministre de la Culture de la République du Sénégal.
03/2011
Non classé
Experimental Social Dilemmas
Most of the papers on social dilemmas were presented at a conference on social dilemmas that was held at the University of Groningen in the spring of 1984. Social dilemmas are interpersonal situations that are characterized by a conflict between private and collective interest, i.e. in attempting to further their private interests, participants may end up worser off than if they had abandonned self-interest and worked for the good of the community. The chapters in this book describe efforts made by social psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to advance our understanding of the psychological processes that influence people's behavior in social dilemmas. It is assumed that understanding of these processes can help our search for solutions.
12/1986
Monographies
Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest
This fully illustrated catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between money, power, resistance and dissent. It accompanies major exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. War, revolution and protest are defining themes in all periods of world history, shaping national identities and influencing material and visual culture in myriad ways. The ubiquity of money makes it a powerful vehicle for diseminating the messages of the state to the public, but the symbolic and nationalistic iconography of currency could also be subverted or mutilated in powerful acts of defiance, rebellion and propaganda. Beginning in Britain in the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the exhibition explores the political and social tensions present in society, and communicated through the production or defacement of money, over the past 200 years. It contrasts the use of money by the radicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as Thomas Spence, and the Suffragette movement, with the money produced by European empires as they scrambled to dominate the rest of the world. The currency histories of the two World Wars reveal the subversion of the very nature of what money is, and highlight the role of money as the tool of occupation, imprisonment, resistance and remembrance. The coins countermarked during the Troubles in Northern Ireland hint at the polarised nature of political discourse and sectarian violence. The exhibition culminates with the work of contemporary artists and activists who use money to highlight the challenges of the modern world, both locally and globally - as a canvas, as a raw material, or as a powerful means of communication. From a unique coin commemorating the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 to a Syrian banknote refashioned to raise awareness of the refugee crisis, this publication showcases many newly acquired objects from the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, alongside materials from the Archive of Modern Conflict. These objects are enhanced by a number of important loans from museums and private collections, including the cannon used at the Battle of Mafeking, an exploded transit van and contemporary art works that take money, its authority and destruction as their theme. Each object constitutes a witness statement to its time and its conflict, and each section has its own story to tell. The chapters - by archaeologists, historians, curators, and artists - create a rich context for the more than 130 objects in the catalogue, most of which have never been studied in depth or published before.
12/2022
Comics
The Little Book of Iron Man. Edition français-anglais-allemand
He made his debut in 1963, in Tales of Suspense No. 39, wearing a cumbersome gray exoskeleton that looked more like a robot than a man. After a re-design, he became an integral member of the Avengers, and he fought evil at every turn ... as well as intense personal demons. More than fifty years and countless comics adventures later, Iron Man became a box-office smash, and one of the most popular super heroes in the world. With 192 pages of images, and text by Roy Thomas, The Little Book of Iron Man will be your favorite guide to comics' greatest armored hero !© MARVEL
06/2018
Lectures bilingues
The King of Gelizia Bogus III. Edition bilingue français-anglais
In an imaginary country, in the Middle Ages, King Bogus III desperately seeks a male heir. But in fact his research will lead to something quite different. Dans un pays imaginaire, au Moyen-âge, le roi Bogus III cherche désespérément à avoir un héritier mâle. Mais en fait sa recherche le mènera à quelque chose de tout à fait différent.
02/2022
Comics
The Little Book of Captain America. Edition français-anglais-allemand
Il a fait son apparition fin 1940 dans le premier numéro de Captain America Comics, en insatiable pourfendeur de Nazis. Vingt ans après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est découvert congelé dans la glace. Perdu dans une époque qui n'est pas la sienne, il prend la tête des Avengers et combat certains des méchants les plus redoutables de l'univers Marvel : Crâne Rouge, le Baron Zemo, Batroc, MODOK, et même son ancien acolyte Bucky, rebaptisé le Soldat de l'Hiver. Avec 192 pages d'images et des textes de Roy Thomas, The Little Book of Captain America sera votre guide de référence sur le plus grand super-patriote des comics !
10/2017
Illustration
Instants. The Art of Julie Mellan, Edition bilingue français-anglais
Un artbook à l'ambiance douce et poétique... Julie Mellan n'a pas son pareil pour mettre en scène des animaux tendres et malicieux, rêveurs ou pleins de fougue, auquel elle donne vie avec talent. Cet artbook à l'ambiance douce et poétique plaira autant aux adultes amateurs de belles illustrations qu'aux enfants déjà friands de son univers.
03/2024
Littérature française
The Star of snows
Written during the black decade of Algeria, this narrative of apprenticeship is freely inspired by a real fact arisen in Kabylia during the childhood of the author. Its electrical wire is the friendship of a child and an eccentric whom some tolerate and whom others would want to send to the asylum. By his side, the child is going to learn to listen to the music of trees and to look at the world with the eyes of the heart. This tale, at the same time naive and grave, invites us to wonder about the cogs of the mechanics of the scapegoat. It is dedicated to all the children of the world who closely or remotely were next to the rejection and to the intolerance.
08/2016
Non classé
Has Bertrand Russell Solved the Problem of Perception?
The guiding spirit of the philosophical engagement of Bertrand Russell was to outline a scientific philosophy with the intention of introducing progress and continuity in the subject. With this aim in view, he developed the analytic method which has inspired one of the most influential philosophical currents of this century. Russell's confidence was confirmed by the result of his analysis of perception and physics. This book examines three different theories that Russell used in an effort to provide a lasting solution to the problem of perception and its relation with the external world. Despite the merits of Russell's attempts, the author is convinced that Russell failed to achieve his aim, but that his failure points the way to a better understanding of the nature and purpose of philosophy.
05/1994
Littérature française
Saint Shuddhananda Bharati A visionary
Foreword To my friend, to my guide, to the mahatma of my heart, to the visionary of a united world living in peace and harmony in the earthly paradise that God has given us. Life and destiny is like an iceberg ; most of us is hidden, and for some, this is the start of the long path of questioning... For souls that are searching, the time then comes when the seeker finds what is being sought : the precursor, the one that has opened the path, cleared it out and illuminated the way. Thus in the deepest part of our Selves, at the centre of our soul, Joythi, the Divine Light is revealed and works on meeting all those who seek it. Kavi Yogi Maharshi Shuddhananda Bharati was a scholar, linguist, scientist, seer poet, saint and the sage of the Cosmic Age. He was ever agile and active, writing, singing, doing good and observed silence for 30 continuous years. He was a universalist, who was not bound to caste, religion, colour and race or geographic bounds. He was an apostle of Sama Yoga, which seeks for a synthesis of science and yoga, West and East, the actual and the ideal in life. Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of creative and literary works with diverse writing styles : epic and lyric writings, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral theologies, novels, short stories, biographies, notes on famous works, essays. Bharata Shakti Kavi Malayam is his magnum opus. Editions ASSA, Christianananda Bharati
11/2013
Sculpture
The Riace Bronzes
The fourth volume in our "Hidden Treasures" series is dedicated to the Riace Bronzes, two of the very few ancient bronze statues that have survived to this day and now preserved in the National Archeological Museum in Reggio Calabria. This publication was designed to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their discovery. In it, Luigi Spina's photographic research dialogs with the texts written by Carmelo Malacrino. The photographer here develops a continued narrative, offering a direct comparison between the two sculptures, identified as A and B, exploring interpretations of the physicality of the two subjects as well as the three-dimensional quality of the bronze bodies, often concealed by the two-dimensional appearance of photographic images. Carmelo Malacrino and Riccardo Di Cesare analyse these famous 5th century BC masterpieces from two points of view : as ancient works of art on the one hand, and considering their significance for contemporary culture on the other. He retraces the story of the Bronzes beginning with their discovery in August, 1972, exploring the circumstances of their unearthing, the restoration they underwent, the exhibitions in which they were shown, as well as the impact they have had on the public, both nationally and internationally. Equally relevant is the reinterpretation of these two statues, beginning with their contextualization in the sphere of ancient Greek art, the related stylistic issues, and the reflection upon the practices and the knowledge possessed by Classical sculpture workshops. This volume will be a pleasant surprise for those of you who love Classical sculpture, for archaeology enthusiasts, and for all those who aren't satisfied with a quick glance when it comes to admiring a work of art.
10/2022
Méthodes
Réussir en anglais 4e. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Démarre en trombe l'année de 4e en lisant en anglais le chef-d'oeuvre de Arthur Conan Doyle : The Hound of the Baskervilles. Seras-tu à même de comprendre l'intrigue de cette mystérieuse histoire, présentée ici en VO et dans un anglais adapté à la classe de 4e ? Pour t'aider, tu trouveras sur chaque page un lexique, des illustrations et de nombreuses questions de compréhension sous forme de QCM.
02/2021
Non classé
Semiogenesis
The essays on "semiogenesis" written by 17 participants of a seminar on the "Evolution of Culture" deal with recent research on the genesis of language, art, and literature. Genesis here implies both the phylogeny and the ontogeny of sign systems. Work on this increasingly popular topic avails itself of interdisciplinary support from linguistics, semiotics, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and systems theory.
12/1981
Mouvements artistiques
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864–1937). The Tragedy of Roger Fry's Wife
This fascinating book presents the ? rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, personality and wit. It reveals her family background and education, her place in the Arts and Crafts Movement and her outstanding artistic output. Helen Coombe was married to Roger Fry, an artist who was to achieve most fame as an art critic, historian and protagonist of the Bloomsbury Group. Soon after their marriage in 1896, she displayed symptoms of schizophrenia. After the ? rst episode, she temporarily resumed her career and had two children with Fry, but for the last thirty years of her life she was sectioned under the Lunacy Act and committed to an institution. This thoroughly researched book makes full use of archival material, including correspondence, diaries and medical records. It illuminates late Victorian and Edwardian society and culture. It throws new light, by no means all of it favourable, on Roger Fry. It is a 'must' for all interested in the Bloomsbury Group, art history, and the handling of mental illness at a time before ef ? cacious antipsychotic drugs were available.
11/2023
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah, III
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since the statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, their theological structure accomplished the authorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treat a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
09/1993
Théâtre
New Territories. Theatre, Drama, and Performance in Post-apartheid South Africa
South African theatre, drama, and performance is a vibrant and rapidly developing area of contemporary theatre studies. In this critical anthology of essays and interviews, some of the world's most respected scholars and practitioners writing and working in the area of South African theatre today share their detailed examinations and insights on the complex and contradictory context of post-apartheid society. Loosely grouped into the categories of Theatre, Drama, and Performance, the essays collected here offer a sampling of work being staged, produced, and written in the country today. The contributors document, contrast, and analyse significant case studies, representing examples from site-specific performance to new South African plays, from traditional indigenous performance practice to the reimagining of Western classics. The anthology takes the year of South Africa's first democratic election, 1994, as its departure point and includes a broad range of topics that capture the current paradigm.
11/1987
Critique littéraire
Etudes anglaises N° 1/2023 : No Future. Poetry of the Current British Crisis
Daniel Katz, No Future : Poetry of the Current British Crisis David Grundy, "The Arc of Struggle" : Poetry and Defeat in the Work of Sean Bonney Malachi McIntosh, Images of Transcendence : "Crisis Always" and the New Black British Poets Andrea Brady, The Anti-Austerity Poetics of the Archive : Jay Bernard's Surge and Holly Pester's go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt-tip Stephen Collis, "Things to address directly" : Border Politics and Contemporary British Poetry Michael Gardiner, Independence and Extinction in Scottish Wilderness Writing Shalini Sengupta, "Is the poet / An imperial dissident" : Migration and the Limits of Care in Bhanu Kapil's How to Wash a Heart Comptes rendus Notes on Contributors Guidelines for Authors
06/2023
Littérature érotique et sentim
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel : A New Literary Canon discusses the question of indigenization in the African Francophone novel. Analyzing the prose narratives of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Patrice Nganang, this book contends that African literature written in European languages is primarily a creative translation process. Recourse to European languages as a medium of expressing African imagination, worldview, and cultures in fictional writing poses problems of intelligibility. Developed to express and reflect Western worldviews and sensibilities, European languages are employed by African writers to convey messages that seem to be at variance with European imagination. These writers find themselves writing in languages they wish to subvert through the technique of literary indigenization. The significance of this study resides in its raising awareness to the hurdles that literary creativity in a polyglossic context may present to readers and translators. This book provides answers to intriguing questions centering on the problematic of translation in contemporary African literature. It is a contribution to current research aimed at unraveling the conundrum surrounding the language question in African Europhone fiction, particularly the cultural functions of translation in literature. Potential translation problems have to be addressed in order to make African literature written in European languages intelligible to global readership. With the advent of globalization, transcultural communication has become an activity of enormous importance to the international community. It is a subject of great interest to translators, linguists, language instructors, and literary theorists.
12/2010
Histoire antique
De la cacophonie à la musique. La perception du son dans les sociétés antiques
Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations font l'objet de constructions culturelles. Cacophonie et musique, bruit et silence sont au coeur d'un ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Orient, l'Egypte, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, d'explorer les manières dont les perceptions acoustiques étaient alors nommées, ressenties, construites et interprétées. Les hommes et les femmes de l'Antiquité entendaient-ils comme nous ? Etaient-ils sensibles à certaines sonorités plutôt qu'à d'autres ? Ces simples questions nous rappellent que les sons et leurs interprétations sont inscrits dans des constructions culturelles, à tel point que la définition même de la cacophonie et de la musique, du bruit et du silence, change en fonction des époques et des contextes. L'historicité de ces notions est au coeur de l'ouvrage qui se propose, pour l'Egypte, l'Orient, les mondes grecs et romains antiques, de décrypter les perceptions acoustiques des Anciens en cherchant à comprendre comment les sons, ou leur absence, deviennent signifiants. Derrière l'ampleur de l'arc chronologique se trouve un objet commun, l'étude du vocabulaire et des expressions qui relèvent du champ sémantique du son. Le lexique est ici analysé dans une démarche historique nourrie par les problématiques développées par l'anthropologie du sonore. Tout au long des diverses contributions de ce volume, le lecteur est invité à se mettre à l'écoute des mots des Anciens. Cette approche au plus près des discours antiques a le mérite de nous révéler toute la complexité des valeurs sociales, politiques et religieuses dont les sons sont porteurs. --- Did the men and women of antiquity hear as we do ? Which sonorities were particularly significant to them ? Those simple questions remind us that the sounds as well as their possible interpretations belong to cultural constructions, so that the definitions of cacophony and music, of noise and silence, vary with times and from one context to another. The historicity of such usual notions is at the heart of the book, which sets out, for the ancient Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds, to explore the ways in which the sounds or their absence become meaningful. Behind the breadth of the chronological arc lies a common object, the study of terms and expressions related to sounds. The book provides an analysis of this corpus in a historical approach nourished by anthropology of sound. All the papers collected here invite the reader to listen carefully to ancient words and, by focusing on ancient discourses, reveal all the complexity of social, political and religious values carried by sounds in particular settings.
11/2022
Non classé
How Judaism reads the Torah I / II
Writing with Scripture, the ancient sages of Judaism made use of Scripture by making Scripture their own, and making themselves into the possession and instrument of Scripture as well, a reciprocal process in which both were changed, each transformed into the likeness and image of the other. This they did by effecting their own selections, shaping a distinctive idiom of discourse, all the while citing, responding to, reflecting upon, Scripture's own words in Scripture's own context and for Scripture's own purpose : the here and now of eternal truth. And the rabbis of the first six centuries A.D. through the compilation presented here not only wrote with Scripture, but set forth a statement that was meant to be coherent and proportioned, well-crafted and well-composed. Since that statement concerned the distinctively-theological question of God's and Israel's relationship with one another, we must classify the writing as theological and find out how, in the compilation before us, theirtheological structure accomplished the autorship's goals. This anthology aims at doing just that. It presents a complete account of how the classical Midrash-text treats a theme of urgent interest to the world today : how Judaism writes with Scripture about the issues of religion that confront all the faithful.
10/1993
Indépendants
Windows on the World
Mexique, septembre 2001. Un repas de famille, comme tant d'autre. Quand soudain, le programme télé s'interrompt... Il y a quelques mois, devant l'accumulation de dettes, Balthazar, le père de famille, est parti aux USA en quête d'un meilleur salaire. Il travaille dans les cuisines du célèbre restaurant Windows on the World dans l'une des deux tours du World Trade Center... Pour la famille, les images sont horribles. Sans nouvelles de leur proche, le désespoir est là, les prières se multiplient. Lorsqu'une nuit... Hallucination ou réalité ? Le fils décide de croire sa mère persuadée d'avoir vu sonb mari à la télévision. Débute alors pour Fernando une quête entre traversée de la frontière, difficultés des recherches et indifférence des autres. Windows on the World est un roman graphique saisissant où amour et devoir mènent la danse dans une New York endeuillée. L'histoire court sur plus de 230 pages et s'appuie sur des dessins semi-réalistes dont le style évoquera tour à tour les frère
01/2022
Littérature française (poches)
Windows on the world
"Vous connaissez la fin : tout le monde meurt. Certes la mort arrive à pas mal de gens, un jour ou l'autre. L'originalité de cette histoire, c'est qu'ils vont tous mourir en même temps et au même endroit. La plupart des clients du Windows on the World ne se connaissent pas entre eux. Dans un instant, le temps deviendra élastique. Tous ces gens feront enfin connaissance. Dans un instant, ils seront tous unis dans la Fin du Monde." Le seul moyen de savoir ce qui s'est passé dans le restaurant situé au 107e étage de la tour nord du World Trade Center, le 11 septembre 2001, entre 8 h 30 et 10 h 29, c'est de l'inventer. F. B. "Un livre émouvant et fort qui confère à la littérature une mission fondamentale : dire l'indicible." Gérard de Cortanze, Le Magazine littéraire. "Frédéric Beigbeder restitue le drame dans sa brutalité, sans bavardage. On ne peut qu'être impressionné par Windows in the World." Josyane Savigneau, Le Monde des livres.
05/2015
Art contemporain
LiFang. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Born in China in 1968 and living in France since 2001, Li Fang capture in her paintings the oscillations of the contemporary world. Although her work is figurative, her technique, which uses large flat areas of colour like blocks sculpted from pictorial matter, clearly forges a link with abstraction. This stylistic unity unfolds in a variety of series that reflect her life and our times : portraits of loved ones, scenes of swimming, anonymous urban crowds, resistance to Chinese censorship, the tragedy of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea... Despite being current or seemingly simple, her themes echo universal feelings : the loneliness of modern society, the choice of exile, the tenderness of childhood, the power of water or the vitality of bodies in nature. Whether light or profound, joyful or tragic, Li Fang's work is timeless and open-ended, and this first monograph reveals its full richness.
12/2023
Livres 3 ans et +
Penelope at the Louvre
Penelope and Grandpa visit the Louvre Museum : the Mona Lisa, the mummies, the Venus de Milo... Penelope wants to see everything ! And what if she gives a pen to the Egyptian scribe... Penelope is full of good ideas... Would you like to help ? It's easy to do with the magic tabs.
01/2009
Non classé
Multiple Origins
Based on extensive research this work gives a detailed account and a reappraisal of Edward Westermarck's thought. Westermarck had versatile relations to Victorian evolutionists (Wallace, Tylor, Spencer), and to British social anthropologists (Frazer, Haddon, Rivers, Malinowski) and psychologists (Shand, Sully). Westermarck was a pioneer of anthropological fieldwork, and his writings on the history of marriage and on the origin and development of moral ideas are modern classics. He was a transitional figure between evolutionism, on the one hand, and functionalism and structuralism, on the other hand. Westermarck's theories of exogamy and incest, and his notions of psychological ethics, moral emotions and concepts, and expanding morality were referred to by Durkheim and Freud, as they are referred to by present-day evolutionary theorists. The search for mankind continues to be of current interest.
01/1999
