Author: Ferdinand Brunetière
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Manual of the History of French Literature
Author: Ferdinand Brunetière
Publisher:
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Publisher:
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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A Short History of French Literature
Author: George Saintsbury
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Manual of Law French
Author: John Hamilton Baker
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Most English legal texts before 1600, and many before 1700, are written in law French. This book is the first glossary to be produced since 1779 and is intended for students and practitioners concerned with English legal history. A knowledge of French and Latin helps in understanding law French, but even so many words are not easily recognisable, and differences of usage constitute a new dialect. The glossary provides a list of the words most commonly found in English legal texts together with English meanings and (where appropriate) Latin equivalents or etymologies. Introductory chapters provide a brief history of the law French dialect; notes and tables for the conjugation of verbs in law French; common abbreviations and contractions, including the 'black letter' typographical symbols; and a bibliography of specialised works relating to law French.
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Most English legal texts before 1600, and many before 1700, are written in law French. This book is the first glossary to be produced since 1779 and is intended for students and practitioners concerned with English legal history. A knowledge of French and Latin helps in understanding law French, but even so many words are not easily recognisable, and differences of usage constitute a new dialect. The glossary provides a list of the words most commonly found in English legal texts together with English meanings and (where appropriate) Latin equivalents or etymologies. Introductory chapters provide a brief history of the law French dialect; notes and tables for the conjugation of verbs in law French; common abbreviations and contractions, including the 'black letter' typographical symbols; and a bibliography of specialised works relating to law French.
The Shock of the Ancient
Author: Larry F. Norman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226591506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226591506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.
Far Afield
Author: Vincent Debaene
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022610723X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language readers here for the first time—Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature’s mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists’ scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022610723X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language readers here for the first time—Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature’s mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists’ scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.
Handbook of Universal Literature, from the Best and Latest Authorities
Author: Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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French Quarter Manual
Author: Malcolm Heard
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A handbook for discovering the architectural gems in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Handbook of Universal Literature; From the Best and Latest Authorities
Author: Anne C. Lynch Botta
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387315627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387315627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
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