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Histoire de l'Eglise

Dictionnaire d’Histoire et de Géographie Ecclésiastiques. Tome 33, Fascicule 193b-194

Leading databases in theology and religious studies : Index Religiosus : An international reference bibliography for academic publications in Theology, Religious Studies, and Church History. Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques : An incomparable source of information on the history of the Church. Also including 2200 biographical notes on bishops, drawn from the reference work Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches.

05/2021

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The Whitman-Hartmann Controversy

The facts in the relationship of Sadakichi Hartmann and Walt Whitman have never been clarified, particularly Hartmann's controversial interview with the poet and its publication in the "New York Herald", April 14, 1889. Of more importance was Hartmann's attempt to found a Whitman Society and the opposition of jealous Whitman associates who frustrated his efforts, although a Whitman Society was founded as the result of his initial work. Further, Hartmann's life-long interest in the poet and his various publications are not generally known. The introduction and edition of his writings will elucidate this literary association.

12/1976

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Gabrielle Roy and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:-«Terre des Hommes» - Self and Non-Self

The pivotal work within the literary corpus of both Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Gabrielle Roy each, significantly, bears the title Terre des hommes. Saint-Exupéry encapsulates the results of a searching existential and humanist enquiry into a récit (1939), and Roy her similar findings into a thirty-page essay commissioned to introduce the 1967 Montréal World Exposition, itself named "Terre des Hommes". These pieces of writing, and the development of their key themes in other texts, lend themselves eminently to comparison for through Roy's essay we learn of her specific attraction to the Exupérian ethos of "l'homme" (self) and man's interaction with "la terre" (non-self). The present study aims principally to detect the presence of these essences in each author's work. In a subsidiary way it also endeavours to situate their rationals within a certain historico-literary context. Finally, an attempt is made to critically assess especially Roy's distinctive representation, through literature, of the self and the exterior world.

02/1991

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Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert

Written for an international audience, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert speaks to the current crisis in queer rights and representation in the context of colonial nations. Focusing on issues of identity, but exploring concerns as wide ranging as morality, same-sex marriage, state sanction, families, and history, this book will appeal to students, activists and academics alike. Asking hard questions of queer rights movements, and the identity politics that often inform them, the book calls for a sustained engagement with the theorisation of queer racial identity and queer race privilege.

09/2006

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Poésie

Alice en terre vaine et autres poèmes

Flèche ou faute, livre de poèmes d'Ann Lauterbach écrits et publiés ces 20 dernières années , sera le premier livre en français de cet écrivain et théoricienne majeure. Proche de l'école de New York et du mouvement L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E sans pour autant être exclusivement tributaire de l'un ou l'autre groupe, Ann Lauterbach a publié de nombreux livres de poésie dont Under the Sign (Penguin, 2013) et Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), retenu sur la liste du National Book Award, Hum (2005), If in Time : Selected Poems 1975–2000 (2001), On a Stair (1997), And for Example (1994) entre autres, de même qu'un livre d'essais, The Night Sky : Writings on the Poetics of Experience. Ann Lauterbach a longtemps travaillé dans le milieu de l'art, notamment pour des galeries prestigieuses. Elle enseigne aujourd'hui à Bard College dont elle dirige l'école d'art Milton Avery School of the Arts et où elle occupe la chaire Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature.

06/2018

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Revues

CompLit N° 2/2021-2 : Travel writing, cultural exchange and identity construction. Edition bilingue français-anglais

Contributeurs : Samuel Agbamu, Peter Arnds, Anja Burghardt, Leena Eilittä, Martina Kopf, Jonathan Lawrence et Sandra Vlasta.

11/2021

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Revolution's Urban Landscape

What are the implications of "change" as assessed from a Revolution's discourse point of view ? Did Revolution in its Eastern European mode "happen" only to make its once heroic agents "vulgar banana eaters" (Slavoj Zizek)? To what extent is/was Revolution part of the globalization process (Americanization)? The answer of this book is that it constituted a series of occurrences of both contingency and continuation. It is Romanian Revolution as a metonymic and creative space, incorporating the Event (here the city of Bucharest, December 1989-1990), the Memory (refiguration of identities), the Contact zone (the street as a public place), and the Local-Global (the East-West dialectics) that Revolution's Urban Landscape discusses in much detail. Through combining and analysing materials from both the local cultural field and the international press (witness reports, journalistic documentation, travelogues, fiction, academic publishing, graffiti, etc.), Raoul Granqvist demonstrates a number of aspects of Revolution's self-reflexivity, vitality and amorphousness. The Romanian book industry, through its absorption and introduction of new areas of popular reading (such as the American romance), embodies, this book explains, the basic instincts of Revolution towards openness and interaction.

11/1999

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Der Nister's Work 1907-1929

This book examines the symbolist tales of Der Nister (1884-1950), a Soviet Yiddish writer who wrote before and after the Revolution in the USSR, and in Berlin in the 1920s. It offers various intertextual readings of the tales, determining the influence of the French and Russian symbolist movements and the Jewish folk and art-tale, and retracing the political and artistic background of Jewish modernism in the Soviet Union and in Berlin in the 1920s. Drawing on various literary theories, it also investigates the narrative structure of Der Nister's tales, based on the midrashic mashal-nimshal figure, as well as his sophisticated use of symbol and allegory. Finally, it examines the intrusion of the economics of modernity (the city, the masses, inflation) which leads to the disintegration of the system of allegorical symbolism, the collapse of storytelling, and Der Nister's final renunciation of symbolism.

01/1991

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Studies in Scottish Fiction:- Nineteenth Century

The contributors to this volume of essays take a new look at nineteenth-century Scottish prose writing. Adopting diverse approaches, they discuss critically and in detail pre-Victorian and Victorian Scottish fiction represented by James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott, John Galt, Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, John Gibson Lockhart, Thomas Carlyle, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Davidson, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, and James Matthew Barrie. There is a rich diversity in nineteenth-century Scottish literature, but there is also the distinct voice of cultural identity and national self-consciousness.

12/1985

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Ecrits sur l'art

Roman d'exposition. Performance under reading conditions

Une trouvaille archéologique faite dans un ready-made de Marcel Duchamp est la matrice de ce Roman d'Exposition que propose Cécile Mainar/di. Une exposition en quinze chapitres, qui sont autant de pièces exposées, autant de pièces à conviction...

05/2023

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Essais

L'autorité en question. Nouveau monde, nouveaux chefs

Plus d'autorité, moins d'autorité ? Une demande de nouvelles formes d'autorité émerge de toutes parts, que ce soit dans l'entreprise, ou vis-à-vis de l'Etat. Imposer sa manière de penser de parent, d'enseignant, de patron, de gouvernant n'est plus politiquement correct. Désormais chacun revendique son point de vue. Beaucoup déplorent cette révolution après des siècles de stabilité, tandis que d'autres y voient des changements potentiellement positifs face aux enjeux du monde à venir. Pour relever ces nouveaux défis, le temps est venu de prendre en compte les bases sur lesquelles se construisent les relations dans l'enfance. Au fil d'une réflexion vivante, un pédopsychiatre/psychanalyste et un chef d'entreprise ouvrent des pistes pour remédier au désarroi actuel et imaginent quelles qualités feront les chefs de demain... Actuellement en crèche ou à l'école maternelle !

06/2021

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Metamorphosis of the Administrative Welfare State

The book's conceptual framework is built upon an analysis of different varieties of rationality. A conception of political rationality is elaborated. First, orientations of contemporary administrative theory and research are analysed from the point of view of that rationality. Next, the same viewpoint is applied to an analysis of an entity called the 'administrative welfare state'. This concept is used to cover the typical institutional shape of the leading highly developed countries until the 1980s. The strengths and the weaknesses of the contemporary 'new public management' reforms are also evaluated from the point of view of political rationality. Finally, steps are taken to define elements of actual reform programmes in the terms of the political rationality.

07/1997

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Sciences politiques

The Structure of Political Communication in the United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

Political Communication in The United Kingdom, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany differs in terms of what the peoples expect to take issue with, how they are prepared to talk about them, which choices they can make to solve problems and, finally, whom or which organizations they delegate to resolve them. This comparative media study of The Economist, Time and Der Spiegel attempts to extract the differences in politics of the three societies.

11/1987

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Littérature française

Titania 2.0. - Version anglaise

Grand Prix de la Francophonie 2015 : Best French-Language Manuscript ! Paris, 22nd century. In an ultra-liberal society where everything is for sale, against a background of multiple virtual realities, the latest craze is personal creation, or "self art". Titania is one of the many names of a young woman addicted to this art : everything about her is artificial and modified. The story relates the fleeting love affair between a rather old-fashioned poet in mourning and this elusive creature. "Through the medium of an enthralling love story, Titania 2. 0 brilliantly poses the existential questions of our time. Pauline Pucciano's style in this book is a skillful balance of fluidity, poetry and precision. The tale is discerning, tender and incisive, and the plot rides a wave of irresistible suspense. " Wilfried N'Sondé, Grand Prix de la Francophonie. Pauline Pucciano specializes in fantasy fiction. Inventive writing and psychologically convincing characters are constants in her diverse worlds, invariably characterized by an unerring esthetic sense.

03/2016

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Lenz and Büchner: Studies in Dramatic Form

This study challenges Volker Klotz's widely accepted notion that the plays of Lenz and Büchner are seminal or exemplary open form dramas. This involves an account of the theory of the open and closed form, its origins in art-historical writings and German "Geistesgeschichte", its implications and place in recent criticism of drama. This leads to close studies of (a) the major plays of J.M.R Lenz (Der Hofmeister, Die Soldaten) the emphasis being on the dramatic structure, suggesting a rarely appreciated development in dramatic technique ; and (b) Georg Btechnique ; and (b) Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod (complexity of dramatic structure, presence of dramatic conflict, absence of open ending) and Woyzeck, where particular attention is devoted to the order of scenes and unsolved editorial problems, reference being made to the newly published facsimile edition of the manuscripts.

12/1984

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Critique littéraire

Études anglaises - N°1/2015

Agnès DERAIL-IMBERT Eros et Arès : les enfants de la guerre dans Billy Budd, Sailor de Melville Cette étude se propose de lire Billy Budd, Sailor comme une fable juridique qui dramatise, dans un double contexte de guerre et de mutinerie, le conflit entre la violence d'une innocence exceptionnelle (Billy) et celle du mal absolu (Claggart). L'une et l'autre, hors la loi, recèle une menace insurrectionnelle que la souveraineté politique (celle du capitaine Vere), pour se maintenir, doit réprimer. Le jugement de Vere - l'exécution de Budd -, s'exerçant au nom de la violence légale, met en oeuvre une stratégie qui enrôle la puissance cohésive d'Eros au service de la loi mar- tiale, dans une opération qui vise à naturaliser et à sublimer la violence arbitraire de l'état d'exception. Against a backdrop of war and mutiny, Billy Budd, Sailor can be read as a juridical drama staging the conflict between the exceptional violence of utmost innocence (Billy's) and that of absolute evil (Claggart's). Both infringe the law and both are pregnant with a threat of insurrection which political sovereignty (captain Vere's) must eradicate for the sake of its own integrity. Vere's sentence condemning Budd to death in the name of legal violence partakes of a complex strategy whose aim is to summon Eros's cohesive power in order to buttress martial law and to naturalize and sublimate the arbitrary violence of the state of exception. Michael GILLESPIE The Picture of Dorian Gray as a Postmodern Work Despite the wide range of interpretative approaches to The Picture of Dorian Gray that have appeared since its publication, all seem to assume that a particular set of values or beliefs-traditional Judeo-Christian morality, cultural attitudes, nationa- list dispositions, or queer inclinations-is integral to Wilde's narrative. This essay challenges the value of any metaphysical reading by asserting that the world of The Picture of Dorian Gray is delineated in strictly physical terms and so is best as a Post-Modern work. Through close reading, this essay shows key points in the narrative that highlight the absence of all values and that underscore the view that characters behave according to strictly material considerations. In the end the essay concludes that Wilde presents a world as grim and bleak as anything found in the works of Samuel Beckett. Malgré les nombreuses interprétations dont a fait l'objet The Picture of Dorian Gray depuis sa publication, tous les critiques semblent penser qu'un ensemble de valeurs ou de croyances-qu'il s'agisse de la morale judéo-chrétienne, de positions culturelles, de dispositions nationalistes ou de l'homosexualité-fait partie inté- grante du roman de Wilde. Cet essai remet en question la pertinence de toute lec- ture métaphysique en affirmant que le monde de The Picture of Dorian Gray est délimité en termes strictement physiques et que l'on ici affaire plutôt à une oeuvre post-moderne. En se fondant sur une lecture détaillée, cet essai montre que des points-clés dans le récit mettent en évidence l'absence de toute valeur et soulignent l'idée que les personnages se comportent en fonction de considérations purement matérielles. En conclusion, cet article souligne que Wilde donne à voir un monde aussi sombre que celui de Samuel Beckett. Christopher S. NASSAAR Hidden Meanings and the Failure of Art : Wilde's A Woman of No Importance Complexity is the hallmark of Oscar Wilde's mature works. From "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" through The Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome, there is an incre- dible amount of complexity wherever we look. When we reach A Woman of No Importance, however, the complexity apparently disappears, and the play is usually read as a conventional Victorian melodrama. A deeper look at the play reveals veiled references to Farquhar, Hawthorne, Arbuthnot and Baudelaire. The refe- rences point to a deep hidden meaning in the play. Traced carefully, they reveal Mrs. Arbuthnot as a deeply corrupt woman who is unaware of the dark recesses of evil within herself. Unfortunately, this suppressed undercurrent of meaning is too dee- ply buried and very difficult to detect, which has led people in general to accept the surface meaning as the true one. The play is thus a stylistic failure, although its veiled thematic content is quite profound. La complexité caractérise les oeuvres d'Oscar Wilde, de "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" jusqu'à The Picture of Dorian Gray et Salome, alors que, dans A Woman of No Importance, celle-ci paraît moins évidente, la pièce étant le plus souvent lue comme un mélodrame victorien conventionnel. Cependant, si on analyse la pièce de plus près, on y décèle des références voilées à Farquhar, Hawthorne, Arbuthnot et Baudelaire. Celles-ci soulignent qu'il y a dans la pièce un sens caché, et une analyse détaillée révèle que Mrs Arbuthnot est en fait une femme corrompue et inconsciente du mal tapi en elle. Malheureusement, parce que celui-ci est profondément enfoui, on s'en est souvent tenu à une lecture superficielle de la pièce. Celle-ci est donc, en un sens, un échec stylistique en dépit de sa profondeur thématique. Nathalie SAUDO-WELBY Narratorial authority in Sarah Grand's Beth Book (1897) The Beth Book, a partly autobiographical narrative, is a feminist Bildungsroman told in the third person. Historical, religious and scientifc discourses combine to give authority to the narrator's vision of Beth, so that the narrator is fnally in a position to award Beth the title of female genius. Yet, very little is said of the con- tent of Beth's "art for man's sake ;" the title and the content of her non-fction book are not described ; and the novel's last words are the name of her "Knight, " a writer who believes in woman's genius to reveal man's own. Avoiding the most direct form of didacticism, Sarah Grand has shifted the emphasis away from Beth's message to women to the narrator's work of authorizing Beth to progress to her position of public speaker. In the process, this narrator is given a historical consciousness and a sex. The Beth Book est un roman d'apprentissage féministe au contenu en partie auto- biographique. Fondant son autorité sur une analyse historique et un discours reli- gieux et scientifque, l'instance narrative fnit par octroyer à Beth le titre de génie féminin. Pourtant, un vide entoure le contenu de "l'art pour l'homme" de Beth ; de son ouvrage, on ne sait ni le titre ni le contenu mais seulement qu'il ne s'agit pas de fction ; les derniers mots du roman sont le nom de son "Chevalier" , un écri- vain qui croit que le génie des femmes consiste à susciter celui des hommes. Tout en évitant les formes de didactisme les plus directes, Sarah Grand a placé au centre de son roman engagé la tâche de la narratrice omnisciente qui va faire progresser Beth en position d'orateur de génie. Au cours de ce processus, la narratrice acquiert une conscience historique et un sexe. Pierre LONGUENESSE Yeats et le mélange des genres : du texte à la scène Dans le projet de "théâtre de l'imagination" formulé par Yeats dès 1890, le Verbe poétique est porteur d'un pouvoir visionnaire, par la performativité de son énoncia- tion concrète portée par le corps de ce que l'on n'appelle pas encore, avec Georges Banu, un "acteur-poète" . Ce projet fait de l'écriture dramatique un objet multi- forme, où le drame n'a de sens que mis en tension par ce qui le "menace" dans sa pureté générique : la narration, le chant, la danse. ll conduit le dramaturge vers des collaborations audacieuses sur les scènes de ses créations, entre musiciens, compo- siteurs, et danseurs. En somme, loin de "menacer" son théâtre, ces figures d'un "hors-champ" artistique sont ce qui en constitue l'expression par excellence, puisque, par le théâtre, est dévolu au verbe le pouvoir extra-ordinaire de faire sur- gir, par sa physicalité propre, aussi bien le souffle du chant que le rythme du corps dansant. In the "Theatre of Imagination" conceived by Yeats in the 1890s, the poetic Verb is given the power to create visions through the concrete physicality of its uttering by the performing body of what Georges Banu will later call an "acteur-poète". This project transforms dramatic writing process into the creation of a multiform object, in which the issue of the drama is brought out by the tension between oppo- site mediums : theatre on the one hand, singing, dance, tale on the other hand... This exploration involves Yeats in original collaborations on stage with composers, musicians, and dancers. In short, these manifestations of an artistic "hors-champ, " far from threatening the drama, become on the contrary the core of its expression, as a new power is, on stage, devoted to the Verb : the extra-ordinary power to arise the pneuma of singing as well as the rhythm of the dancing body. Anne MOUNIC "To tell and be told" : war poetry as the "transmission of sympathy" War poetry raises a paradox : the destructive collective imposition which weighed upon each soldier during the Great War triggered off new individual awareness and led to a questioning of the values that had prevailed until then, and notably idealis- tic philosophy. Discussing the paradox, we shall oppose tragedy and the individual epic, catharsis and empathy, the choice of death and the choice of life. The Great War writings will be placed in their literary and philosophical context, before and after. La poésie de guerre soulève un paradoxe : la contrainte collective de destruction qui pesa sur chaque soldat durant la Grande Guerre suscita une nouvelle conscience singulière, menant à un questionnement des valeurs et, notamment, de la philoso- phie idéaliste. Discutant ce paradoxe, nous opposerons la tragédie à l'épopée indi- viduelle, la catharsis à l'empathie, le choix de la mort à celui de la vie. Les écrits de la Grande Guerre seront placés dans leur contexte littéraire et philosophique, avant et après. Olivier HERCEND Cinema, the mind and the reader in Virginia Woolf's The Mark On the Wall Taking up David Trotter's Cinema and Modernism, this article emphasises the strong links that exist between Virginia Woolf's thoughts on cinema and the new techniques and notions that she develops in "The Mark on the Wall. " Indeed, her depiction of the mind's process fosters the image of a fragmented world, a succes- sion of images that come under no authoritative order or meaning : a mere mon- tage. But cinema also contains the promise of an artistic answer to the fragmentation of the modern condition. Through a renewal of textual co-operation, Woolf opens her reader to the possibilities of what I choose to call an "aesthetics of juxtaposi- tion. " Reprenant les idées exprimées dans Cinema and Modernism, de David Trotter, cet article relie la pensée de Virginia Woolf sur le cinéma aux techniques et aux notions nouvelles qu'elle développe dans "The Mark on the Wall" . De fait, en tentant de décrire le fonctionnement de l'esprit, elle fait naître l'image d'un monde fragmenté, une succession d'images qui ne tombent sous l'autorité d'aucun ordre ni d'aucune signification essentiels : en un mot, un montage. Mais le cinéma est également la source d'une réponse artistique à la fragmentation de la condition moderne. En renouvelant les modalités de la coopération textuelle, Woolf ouvre son lecteur aux possibilités d'une "esthétique de la juxtaposition" . Antonia RIGAUD Les Europeras de John Cage : de l'opéra au cirque Cet article interroge le rapport ambigu qu'entretint John Cage avec le théâtre tout au long de sa carrière. Influencé très tôt par Artaud et Stein, il ne cesse de faire référence au théâtre et conçoit son art comme une réflexion sur la théâtralité et la notion de performance. Ses Europeras, à la fin de sa carrière, permettent de mettre en avant la manière dont il a cherché à la fois à inscrire ses expérimentations artis- tiques dans le champ théâtral tout en faisant sortir le théâtre des codes mêmes de la scène. La place centrale que Cage donne au théâtre, bien qu'il ne produise que de très rares oeuvres théâtrales, témoigne de son désir de penser le théâtre non pas en tant que médium mais en tant que lieu d'expérimentation. This article addresses John Cage's ambiguous relationship with theatre throughout his career. Influenced early by Artaud and Stein, he often referred to theatre and understood his own art project as a reflection on theatricality and performance. The Europeras, written late in his career, testify to his attempt to associate his artistic experimentation with theater while pushing on the limits of theatre. The prominent position Cage gave to the theatre in contrast to the rarity of his theatrical work pieces is emblematic of his ambition to re-think the theatre as a locus of experimentation.

09/2015

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Théâtre

Diane. Edition bilingue français-anglais

Now regrettably obscure, Nicolas de Montreux published prolifically in various genres during the 1590s (under the anagrammatic pseudonym of "Olénix du Mont Sacré"). He produced most of his work in Nantes under the patronage of Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercoeur, when the latter was Governor of Brittany — hence the frequent political cast of his writing, since Mercoeur was the ultimate hold-out for the ultra-Catholic Holy League against Henri IV. Yet Montreux also contributed significantly to the diffusion in France of Italian-inspired romantic pastoral, and his comedy Diane, whose title evokes the Diana of Montemayor, was his major dramatic composition in this vein. First appended to the third volume of his popular Bergeries (Tours, 1594), which otherwise mingle prose and verse, Diane recalls Italian models : Tasso's Aminta, Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, the commedia dell'arte. It displays exuberant theatricality in pushing towards absurdity its inevitable theme — the disruptive power of terrestrial love, which is finally aligned with that which brings harmony to the universe. Magical intervention is the means ; multiple marriages mark the end. The overlap with Shakespeare's romantic comedies, especially A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595-96), offers a special rationale for translating Montreux's work into English. Besides an Introduction exploring the play's contexts and affiliations, the volume includes an annotated edition of the French text, unpublished since Montreux's era.

08/2019

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Ethnic Cultures in the 1920's in North America

This volume contains the fourteen papers that were given at the Third Franco-German Colloquium at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Leading French and German scholars in American Studies address issues of ethic cultures in the U.S. and Canada during the Twenties. The volume presents contributions by historians, anthropologists, and literary historians and has thus an interdisciplinary dimension. The groups and cultures dealt with are Jews, WASPs, Scandinavians, Africans and Italians in North America.

06/1993

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Histoire internationale

Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia

Drawing on previously inaccessible records, this book discusses love, sex, marriage, divorce, and child-rearing during Khrushchev's "thaw" of the 1950s and early 1960s. It analyses the Soviet government's attempts to supervise private life and enforce communist morality, and it describes the diverse ways in which people responded to official prescriptions. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book provides an innovative exploration of the interactions between Soviet ideology and everyday life.

03/2007

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Anglais apprentissage

Sophie's Choice. William Styron

Sophie's Choice has met a tremendous success since publication in 1979 and has been translated in many languages, including Japanese and Russian; it bas been made into a movie by Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep in the unforgettable leading rote, and even gave birth to an opera. As usual William Styron gets down to brass tacks with one of the most awe-inspiring themes of the twentieth century: the final solution and the horror of the death-camps. In this bilingual study the emphasis is laid on the complexity of the narrative technique, the link between sexuality and violence, and the entanglement of historical, religious, philosophical and psychoanalytical references that make up the fabric of personal drama and human tragedy that Sophie's Choice represents.

10/2004

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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

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Guides pratiques

Sri lanka wildlife

Despite its small size, just 60,000km2, Sri Lanka boasts a breathtaking array of landscapes, home to a remarkable variety of wildlife. One of Asia's best ecotourism destinations, it has not only the continent's largest land mammal — the Asian elephant — but hundreds of species of birds, reptiles and amphibians, many endemic to the island. Colourful kingfishers, purple-faced leaf monkey and the iconic leopard are all found here. This is also arguably the best place in the world for sightings of blue whale. Written by one of Sri Lanka's leading wildlife experts and photographers, Bradt's Sri Lankan Wildlife — newly updated for this second edition — is the perfect introduction to the best of the country's Bora and fauna.

05/2022

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Science-fiction

Fantasy Art and Studies 9. Amazing Beasts / Animaux fabuleux

Compagnons des hommes, alliés, proies ou bêtes féroces, les animaux habitent la Fantasy, tantôt miroirs de ce que nous sommes, tantôt incarnations d'une altérité radicale. Le 9e numéro de Fantasy Art and Studies s'attache à explorer les multiples déclinaisons du bestiaire des animaux fabuleux, à travers les actes du colloque "Représentations animales dans les mondes imaginaires" et des nouvelles qui donnent la part belle aux créatures animales. En bonus : une nouvelle signée de Charlotte Bousquet, figure incontournable de la Fantasy française, et un nouveau chapitre de la BD de Guillaume Labrude. Et les illustrations de Véronique Thill, Antoine Pelloux, Océane Azeau, GaëlleC. , Guillaume Sallah Thomas, Princesse Mandragore Art et Guillaume Labrude. Mankind's companions, allies, prey or savage beasts, animals inhabit Fantasy, sometimes mirroring us, sometimes embodying absolute otherness. Fantasy Art and Studies issue 9 explores the multiple variations of the representation of amazing beasts in Fantasy through the proceedings of the symposium "Représentations animales dans les mondes imaginaires" and short stories which prominently feature animals. Bonus : a short story by Charlotte Bousquet, a major figure of the French Fantasy scene, and a new chapter of Guillaume Labrude's comics. And illustrations by Véronique Thill, Antoine Pelloux, Océane Azeau, GaëlleC. , Guillaume Sallah Thomas, Princesse Mandragore Art and Guillaume Labrude.

12/2020

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Fantasy

Fantasy Art and Studies 11. Oceans of Wonders / Océans merveilleux

Les chercheurs et les auteurs du 11e numéro de Fantasy Art and Studies s'attèlent à révéler toute l'étendue et la richesse des imaginaires de la surface et des profondeurs océaniques dans la Fantasy. Retrouvez notamment des articles sur Tolkien, C. S. Lewis et Ursula K. Le Guin, ainsi que des nouvelles qui vous feront voyager à travers les océans, et, en prime, le nouveau chapitre de la BD de Guillaume Labrude, qui clôt l'arc de Caliban. Un numéro illustré par GaëlleC. , Guillaume Labrude, Antoine Pelloux, Emmanuelle Ramberg et Véronique Thill. --- The authors and researchers of Fantasy Art and Studies issue 11 set out to reveal the full extent and richness of the imaginations of the surface and the ocean depths within Fantasy. Available in this issue : articles dealing with Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, and short stories which will make you travel through the oceans, and, as a bonus, the new chapter of Guillaume Labrude's comics, that closes Caliban's arc. An issue illustrated by GaëlleC. , Guillaume Labrude, Antoine Pelloux, Emmanuelle Ramberg and Véronique Thill.

11/2021

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Autres collections (9 à 12 ans

Koko et le Méchant Chat et la bataille contre le covid-19. Edition bilingue français-anglais

Koko the little sparrow was at the airport. He perched on top of a large pile of suitcases, and was thrown in the middle of the luggage about to leave for Bulgaria. When he arrived there, a cat was waiting with a ampty stomach. This cat is an ominous cat who puts a spell on birds said a lovely dog.

10/2022

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Anglais apprentissage

The Sound and the Fury / As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

In William Faulkners major works of fiction, the reader finds an extraordinary vision of what Robert Penn Warren calls 'the dark complications of Southern life', an extreme symbolic rendering of the ways and means of decline that characterised the Southern states of the US during the early twentieth century. Now recognised as two of Faulkner's greatest novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) were commercial failures in the decade following their publication, and received from many critics only a grudging recognition of difference rather than talent. By the end of the Second World War, however, the reputation of both novels had grown, and Faulkner's great fictional creation, Yoknapatawpha County, had become as much a part of America as any real area of the Mississippi landscape. In this Icon Critical Guide, Nicolas Tredell explores the wealth of critical material generated by these two exceptional works of modernist fiction. From the initially mixed critical responses to the novels in the early 1930s, the Guide follows the enormous growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. New writings shaped by a range of critical theories are discussed, offering the reader a clear view of the place now given to one of Americas most innovative and influential novelists.

01/1999

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Littérature française

XUEXI PU SONGLING (en Chinois)

Editor's Choice Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 11th Chinese author Mo Yan 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Commission said that Mo Yan combination of reality and fantasy. historical and social perspective. He created the world reminiscent of the works of Faulkner and Marquez fusion while to find a point of departure in traditional Chinese literature and oral literature. Summary Pu Songling's hometown Zibo and Mo Yan's hometown density very close from. Mo Yan is to listen to the story of Purkinje child grew up. Pu Songling fantasy style to Mo Yan's fiction writing brought a very big impact. but also achievements in the magical style of Mo Yan. Learn Pu Songling is selected from the group consisting of Mo Yan two more than thirty ghost stories. ghost legend. and some weird God God Buddies ghost novels. with high-density the flapping gray Year pictures unique. to bring people look good. magical shock strong visual impact. Mo Yan (1955 catalog learning Pu Songling adventure night fishing genius good doctor iron child flying odor tribe carpenter the dog sandals scenting sub sins the the airship Zaomu stool motorcycle the three horses hype gale five pastry dry river Baekgu Swing frame of February 17 -). formerly known as tube mo. born in Gaomi County. famous contemporary Chinese writers. Honorary Doctor of the Open University of Hong Kong. visiting professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology. His rise since the mid-1980s to a series of local works. filled with nostalgia and blame Township complex emotional. are classified as Seeking literary writers. The works are influenced by magic realism. to write out a legend in the of Gaomi northeast Township. Mo Yan subjective feeling of the world in his novel structure unique to dream-like narrative. unfamiliar process. shaping the mysterious transcendental object world. with Pioneer color. In August 2011. Mo Yan With novel frog was the eighth Mao Dun. October 11. 2012. won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

11/2012

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Musique, danse

TRACES OF DANSE : NOTATIONS AND DRAWNINGS OF CHOREGRAPHERS

Cet ouvrage réunit des partitions, des dessins, croquis, notes, graphiques, tableaux, dégageant une textualité inconnue, entre écriture et image, dont le mouvement semble moins le but final qu'un relais cognitif.

01/1994

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Non classé

The Image of the Woman in the Works of Ingeborg Bachmann

In this study an analysis of the women characters, who play a dominant part in Bachmann's prose writings, was presented. The results suggested a complex but coherent image. It was found that although the characteristics of this image deserved the appellation "sex-specific" and "traditional" they were infused with new values : the values of individualism, of a specifically female identity and of particular intense personal freedom. It was also found that the theme of personal freedom underlies all motivations, conflicts and situations of tragedy of Bachmann's heroines. Finally, it was found that the image of the woman is not only part of a distinct female-male antithesis, which often assumes violent dimensions, but has a redeeming function for a de-humanized world.

09/1993

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Beaux arts

SISLEY. Edition en anglais

Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. He divided his time between France and England, and the 55 colour illustrations in this book include the celebrated snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly and his paintings of the colourful regattas on the Thames which Kenneth Clark described as embodying 'the perfect moment of Impressionism'. Richard Shone has completely updated his essay, first published in 1979, and selected new colour plates and added extensive commentaries on the illustrations to make this book an ideal introduction to the work of Alfred Sisley. Richard Shone is Associate Editor of The Burlinglon Magazine. His publications include Bloomsbury Portraits (1976, revised 1993), Walter Sickert (1988) and Sisley (1992), all published by Phaidon.

01/1994