Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin of Tarascon PDF Author: Alphonse Daudet
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Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Tartarin of Tarascon

Tartarin of Tarascon PDF Author: Alphonse Daudet
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Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Lines of Light

Lines of Light PDF Author: Daniele Del Giudice
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Strangers at Our Door

Strangers at Our Door PDF Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509512209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.

The Problem of Minority Groups

The Problem of Minority Groups PDF Author: Louis Wirth
Publisher: Irvington Pub
ISBN: 9780829027006
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Exploring the City

Exploring the City PDF Author: Ulf Hannerz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231083768
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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A bold attempt to provide a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism that draws upon history, sociology, and geography, to bring intellectual unity to the history and development of urban anthropology.

The Novelist as Philosopher

The Novelist as Philosopher PDF Author: John Cruickshank
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313202710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Conservatory of Santa Teresa

The Conservatory of Santa Teresa PDF Author: Bilenchi, Romano
Publisher: Firenze University Press
ISBN: 8866558230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.

Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett

Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett PDF Author: Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Publisher: Firenze University Press
ISBN: 8864534059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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This book challenges critical approaches that argue for Giacomo Leopardi’s and Samuel Beckett’s pessimism and nihilism. Such approaches stem from the quotation of Leopardi in Beckett’s monograph Proust, as part of a discussion about the removal of desire. Nonetheless, in contrast to ataraxia as a form of ablation of desire, the desire of and for the Other is here presented as central in the two authors’ oeuvres. Desire in Leopardi and Beckett is read as lying at the cusp between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, a desire that splits as much as it moulds the subject when called to address the Other (inspiring what Levinas terms ‘infinity’ as opposed to ‘totality,’ an infinity pitted against the nothingness crucial to pessimist and nihilist readings).

A New History of the Humanities

A New History of the Humanities PDF Author: Rens Bod
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199665214
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

On Modern Poetry

On Modern Poetry PDF Author: Guido Mazzoni
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674249038
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry’s revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.