Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Festschrift
Author: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoPublisher: UNAM
ISBN: 9789683610232
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siècle
Author: Jennifer ForrestPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000682463
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1857 La Sortie du bal masqué to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist found echoes in the work of literary counterparts like Charles Baudelaire and his "Vieux saltimbanque" who seeks in vain a responsive public. For some, the attraction of the acrobatic clown for the creative imagination may have been his ability to embody the plight of the artist: these artistes generally led an ambulatory and uncertain existence. Other artists and writers, however, particularly the Decadents, perceived in the circus acrobat – including the acrobatic clown – a conceptual and performative tool for liberating their points of view from the prison-house of aesthetic convention. If authors’ protagonists were themselves sometimes failures, their aesthetic innovations often produced exhilarating artistic triumphs. Among the works examined in this study are the circus posters of Jules Chéret, Thomas Couture’s Pierrot and Harlequin paintings, Honoré Daumier’s saltimbanque paintings, Edgar Degas’s Miss Lala au Cirque Fernando, Édouard Manet’s Un bar au Folies-Bergère, the pantomimes of the Hanlon-Lees troupe, and novels, short stories, and poems by Théodore de Banville, Edmond de Goncourt, J. K. Huysmans, Gustave Kahn, Jules Laforgue, Catulle Mendès, Octave Mirbeau, Jean Richepin, Edouard Rod, and Marcel Schwob.
Le Guide Musical
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Le grand tombeau du monde, ou Jugement final des party en six livres
Author: J. SerclierPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5885120234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
The French Bandello
Author: Matteo BandelloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phytopathogenic fungi
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Companion to Spanish Cinema
Author: Bernard P. E. BentleyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1855661764
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This volume offers a detailed chronological account of the history of Spanish cinema.
The Literary Griot
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African literature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults
Author: Maureen TurimPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000960706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media. Analyzing teenage sexual encounters with adults across a variety of media, including films, television, novels, and podcasts, the volume takes a positive stance on the expression of teenage sexuality, while remaining sensitive to the power of adults to abuse and manipulate. The anthology treats these representations as negotiations between conflicting forces: desire, sexual self-knowledge, unequal power, and the law, the latter both actual legal statutes and internalized law in the philosophical and psychoanalytic sense. Questions of unequal power inherent in such relations are theorized. The authors examine variations of this configuration of sexual relations between teenagers and adults from different perspectives, to consider how various forms of expression rework it formally. These essays are attuned to both nuances of presentation and contexts of reception, and they consider how aesthetics play a role. Contributing to the general debate about the ways that societies construct and regulate adolescent sexuality, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of media studies, cultural studies, film studies, television studies, sociology, and gender studies
Global Healing
Author: Karen Laura ThornberPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004420185
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Read an interview with Karen Thornber. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities. Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.
