Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 1446159299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 1446159299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Roland Legend in Nineteenth Century French Literature
Author: Harry RedmanJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813195004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The year was 778. Charlemagne, starting homeward after an expedition onto the Iberian Peninsula, left his nephew, Count Roland, in command of a rear guard. As Roland and his troops moved through the Pyrenees, a fierce enemy swooped down and annihilated them. Whether the attackers were Moors, Basques, Gascons, or Aquitainians is still disputed. The massacre soon passed into legend, preserved but at the same time expanded and interpreted in oral tradition and written accounts. Dormant after the late Middle Ages, the legend began to inspire literary works even before the discovery and publication of the Oxford manuscript Chanson de Roland in 1837. The French Revolution and Empire, temporarily relieving Roland of his religious aura, hailed him as a patriot belaboring his country's foes. The Romantics made him either a dauntless, irrepressible extrovert or a noble victim struck down while making the world a better place. As the twentieth century dawned, a few authors scoffed at hero worship but others held up Roland as a heroic example that might help his countrymen live with the humiliation of their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and then, as World War I approached, retake their lost territories. Fascinating as the Roland legend is in itself, no one has looked into the nonacademic French literature to which it has given rise in modern times. Harry Redman now shows how writers, with varying outlooks and approaches and divergent purposes, drew upon the legend from 1777 to the end of World War I. A monumental enterprise based on primary research, the book is of extraordinary value to scholars interested in the Old French epic and to all those concerned with more recent literary periods.
Les Merveilleuses
Author: Rena Circa le BlancPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471693503
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 202
Book Description
Fales Library Checklist
Author: Fales LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Most Ingenious Paradox
Author: Gayden WrenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195301724
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Most books written on Gilbert and Sullivan have focused on the authors rather than on their work. Examining all 14 operas in detail, this book offers a fresh look at the works themselves.
La flûte enchantée
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : fr
Pages : 136
Book Description
Modern Language Notes
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Levant Trade Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Tragic Muse
Author: Rachel BrownsteinPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony of France. Yet her passionate, startling performances of the works of Racine and Corneille saved them from almost certain obsolescence after the fall of Napoleon (who had relished classical French tragedy) and the emergence of Romanticism. Audiences in Paris, London, Boston, and Moscow thrilled to her voice, and devoured the rumors of her offstage promiscuity and extravagance. Her fame - equal parts popularity and notoriety - was so great that she could nonchalantly dispose of her last name. La grande Rachel virtually invented the role of the superstar, while remaining a symbol of the highest art and most serious cultural pursuits. Indeed, her identity was fraught with such contradictions - which intrigued the public all the more. From the moment she was discovered playing the guitar on the streets of Lyons, to her debut on the Parisian stage at the age of fifteen, to her critical and commercial triumphs as Camille, Phedre, and other tormented women, Rachel's career was exhaustively "managed." A series of theater gurus, influential reviewers, and impresarios - including her brash and opportunistic father - claimed the credit for her astonishing success. What this abundance of male managers has always obscured is Rachel's own decisiveness and control over her time and money - not only did she play her various champions (and high-profile lovers) against one another, she openly defied them. Some called her stubborn, even perverse; in these pages, we come to recognize her as a woman ahead of her time, a charismatic individual very much in charge of her own destiny. As her fascination with all things Napoleonic suggests, Rachel liked power - both personal and professional - and had the talent to command it.
