Author: David Looseley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Author: Richard Wittman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429565917
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon]. Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.
Author: Warren F. Motte
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The literary group known as Oulipo, was founded in Paris in 1960 to pursue writing in a way that contrasts strongly with the Anglo-American tradition. The examples included in this collection all display some form of literary constraint.
Author: Thomas Mical
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415325202
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Author: Margaret-Anne Hutton
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415349338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This book focuses on a little-known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps, and will be of interest to those studying modern French literature, women's studies and the Holocaust.
Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284346
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.
Author: Harry Mathews
Publisher: Make Now Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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A late 20th-century kabala, a labyrinth of literary secrets that will lure the uninitiated into rethinking everything they know about books and writing. The definitive encyclopedia of contemporary word-magic.
Author: Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Author: J. Lewine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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