Author: E. Joe Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443843679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Get Book Here
Book Description
This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies. Essay titles include: “A New Genre: l’Opéra moral / Moral Opera in Eighteenth-Century France,” “Voltaire and the Uses of Censorship: The Example of the Lettres Philosophiques,” “Enlightenment Intertextuality: The Case of Heraldry in the Encyclopédie méthodique,” “Sex as Satire in Voltaire's Fiction,” “Violence, Levity, and the Dictionary in Old Regime France: Chaudon’s Dictionnaire anti-philosophique,” “L’abbé, l’amazone, le bon roi et les frelons,” “Greuze’s Self-Portraits: Figures of Artistic Identity,” “From Forest to Field: Sylvan Elegists of Eighteenth-Century France,” “The Falsification of Voltaire's Letters and the Public Persona of the Author: From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776),” “The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765),” “John Law and the Rhetoric of Calculation,” “‘Le Roi des Bulgares’: Was Voltaire's Satire on Frederick the Great just too Opaque?” “Voltaire and the Voyage to Rome,” “Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote,” “Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire,” “Sentimental Horror: Enlightenment Tragedy and the Rise of the Genre Terrible,” “Voltaire and the Comic Genre: Polemics and Rhetoric.”
Author: Auguste Maquet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Stephen Forcer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351570250
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Get Book Here
Book Description
The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on extensive close analysis of French-language Dada work in its original form, and offering English translations throughout, this major reappraisal looks at a broad range of media and topics - including poetry, film, philosophy, and quantum physics - in order to get beyond Dada's typecasting as avant-garde anti-hero. Work by women writers and other marginalized figures combines with that of canonical Dadaists to present Dada in a radically new set of guises: poetic and textually subtle; intellectually and philosophically meaningful; peaceable and quasi-Buddhist; and, perhaps most uncomfortably of all, conformist and reactionary.
Author: Bernard Werber
Publisher: Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (Dom
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 420
Get Book Here
Book Description
Mikaël Pinson a réussi sa mission d'ange, il se retrouve promu élève-dieu dans une école sur l'île d'Aeden où les 144 élèves apprennent à créer un monde minéral, puis végétal et enfin animal avant de gérer et faire progresser une communauté humaine. Mais la nuit, un déicide assassine ses congénères... Une fresque de l'aventure spirituelle, biologique et métaphysique des hommes.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 600
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Eyal Peretz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143844804X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Get Book Here
Book Description
Dramatic Experiments offers a comprehensive study of Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of European modernity. Diderot was a French Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, art critic, and editor of the first major modern encyclopedia. He is known for having made lasting contributions to a number of fields, but his body of work is considered too dispersed and multiform to be unified. Eyal Peretz locates the unity of Diderot's thinking in his complication of two concepts in modern philosophy: drama and the image. Diderot's philosophical theater challenged the work of Plato and Aristotle, inaugurating a line of drama theorists that culminated in the twentieth century with Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud. His interest in the artistic image turned him into the first great modern theorist of painting and perhaps the most influential art critic of modernity. With these innovations, Diderot provokes a rethinking of major philosophical problems relating to life, the senses, history, and appearance and reality, and more broadly a rethinking of the relation between philosophy and the arts. Peretz shows Diderot to be a radical thinker well ahead of his time, whose philosophical effort bears comparison to projects such as Gilles Deleuze's transcendental empiricism, Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction, and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bricklayers
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Henri Cordier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language materials
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Get Book Here
Book Description
