Author: Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811100555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Author: Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811100555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Strangers to Themselves: The Byzantine Outsider
Author: Dion C. SmythePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351897802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
March 1998 saw Byzantinists gathering together at the University of Sussex in Brighton, for the annual symposium held by the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Their aim was to consider the question of the 'Byzantine outsider'. Some categories of outsiders appear clear and simple: those marked out by class, race, sex, religion. But these categories are not universals. Today, historians of all periods are examining the ways in which we analyse the divisions in our societies, which can determine how we look at societies in the past. There is no consensus on who forms the 'outsider class' in modern society; it should come as no surprise that there was no consensus in Byzantium as to who the outsiders were, what they had done to deserve that status, and what the result of their attaining it should have been. The papers in this collection, drawn from the large number presented at the XXXII Spring Symposium, continue the debate about the idea of the 'Byzantine outsider'. The scholars within - theologians, historians, literary critics and art historians - present differing approaches to different aspects of the problem. The volume does not aim to have the 'last word', but rather to provoke debate and to open the field. Any examination of society that uses the concept of the outsider has implicitly within it a concept of the 'insider'. By looking at those on the margins it becomes easier to see who were - or at least thought they were - on the inside.
The Nineteenth Century
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
Author: Victor HugoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226359816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Although best known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet—one of the most important and prolific in French history. Despite his renown, however, there are few comprehensive collections of his verse available and even fewer translated editions. Translators E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have collected Victor Hugo's essential verse into a single, bilingual volume that showcases all the facets of Hugo's oeuvre, including intimate love poems, satires against the political establishment, serene meditations, religious verse, and narrative poems illustrating his mastery of the art of storytelling and his abiding concern for the social issues of his time. More than half of this volume's eight thousand lines of verse appear here for the first time in English, providing readers with a new perspective on each of the fascinating periods of Hugo's career and aspects of his style. Introductions to each section guide the reader through the stages of Hugo's writing, while notes on individual poems provide information not found in even the most detailed French-language editions. Illustrated with Hugo's own paintings and drawings, this lucid translation—available on the eve of Hugo's bicentenary—pays homage to this towering figure of nineteenth-century literature by capturing the energy of his poetry, the drama and satirical force of his language, and the visionary beauty of his writing as a whole.
Masculinities in Contemporary Africa
Author: Egodi UchenduPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 2869784120
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Although gender and non-gender scholars have studied men, such an academic exercise requires a critical and focused study of masculine subjects in particular social contexts, which is what this book attempts to do. This empirically rich collection of essays, the seventh of the CODESRIA Gender Series, deals with critical examinations of various shades and ramifications of Africa's masculinities and what these portend for the peoples of Africa and for gender relations in the continent. So much has changed in terms of notions and expressions of masculinities in Africa since ancient times, but many aspects of contemporary masculinities were fashioned during and since the colonial period. The papers in this volume were initially discussed at the 2005 month-long CODESRIA Gender Institute in Dakar. The contributors are gender scholars drawn from various disciplines in the wide fields of the humanities and the social sciences with research interests in the critical study of men and masculinities in Africa. The CODESRIA Gender Series aims at keeping alive and nourishing the African social science knowledge base with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. The series strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.
The complete works of Michael de Montaigne; tr. (ed.) by W. Hazlitt
Author: Michel Eyquem de MontaignePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the French Revolution
Author: Leopold George Wickham LeggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Nineteenth Century and After
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
L'HOMME QUI MARCHE SOUS LA PLUIE;UN PSYCHANALYSTE AVEC LACAN
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 2738191487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
La Théorie Du Langage de Pierre-Simon Ballanche
Author: A. J. L. BusstPublisher: Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book analyses the complex and wide-ranging theory of language which lies at the heart of Ballanche's philosophical system. The volume consists of a detailed analysis of this theory of language, both in the context of the historical, religious, social and political system it supports, and also in relation to the earlier and contemporary philosophies of language which it seeks either to uphold or to disprove.
