Author: Miriam H. Knapp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
A Discussion of Four Articles on "Voyage Au Bout de la Nuit" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Author: Miriam H. Knapp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 117
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Journey to the End of the Night
Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780714541396
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780714541396
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
Masters' Essays and Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Columbia University. Graduate Faculties
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Future Tense
Author: Roxanne Panchasi
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801446702
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was alternately unsettling and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks were seen as traces in the present of a future world, its technologies, and its possible transformations. In Future Tense, Roxanne Panchasi illuminates both the anxieties and the hopes of a period when many French people-traumatized by what their country had already suffered-seemed determined to anticipate and shape the future.Future Tense, which features many compelling illustrations, depicts experts proposing the prosthetic enhancement of the nation's bodies and homes; architects discussing whether skyscrapers should be banned from Paris; military strategists creating a massive fortification network, the Maginot Line; and French delegates to the League of Nations declaring their opposition to the artificial international language Esperanto.Drawing on a wide range of sources, Panchasi explores representations of the body, the city, and territorial security, as well as changing understandings of a French civilization many believed to be threatened by Americanization. Panchasi makes clear that memories of the past-and even nostalgia for what might be lost in the future-were crucial features of the culture of anticipation that emerged in the interwar period.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801446702
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the years between the world wars, French intellectuals, politicians, and military leaders came to see certain encounters-between human and machine, organic and artificial, national and international culture-as premonitions of a future that was alternately unsettling and utopian. Skyscrapers, airplanes, and gas masks were seen as traces in the present of a future world, its technologies, and its possible transformations. In Future Tense, Roxanne Panchasi illuminates both the anxieties and the hopes of a period when many French people-traumatized by what their country had already suffered-seemed determined to anticipate and shape the future.Future Tense, which features many compelling illustrations, depicts experts proposing the prosthetic enhancement of the nation's bodies and homes; architects discussing whether skyscrapers should be banned from Paris; military strategists creating a massive fortification network, the Maginot Line; and French delegates to the League of Nations declaring their opposition to the artificial international language Esperanto.Drawing on a wide range of sources, Panchasi explores representations of the body, the city, and territorial security, as well as changing understandings of a French civilization many believed to be threatened by Americanization. Panchasi makes clear that memories of the past-and even nostalgia for what might be lost in the future-were crucial features of the culture of anticipation that emerged in the interwar period.
Figuring the East
Author: Marie-Paule Ha
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.
Critical Essays on Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Author: William K. Buckley
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Paris
Author: Andrew Hussey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596913231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Describes daily life in Paris throughout history from the point of view of the Parisians themselves, including the working classes, criminals, insurrectionists, street urchins, artists, and prostitutes.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596913231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Describes daily life in Paris throughout history from the point of view of the Parisians themselves, including the working classes, criminals, insurrectionists, street urchins, artists, and prostitutes.
Articles on Twentieth Century Literature: an Annotated Bibliography, 1954 to 1970
Author: David E. Pownall
Publisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Books Abroad
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 2426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 2426
Book Description