Author: Sherwood Smith
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ISBN: 9781611387407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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A light-hearted romantic comedy of manners set in Jane Austen's Regency period as our two heroines step in time to the dance of love.
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172067
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Author: Kélina Gotman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190840412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the 'disorder' being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, 'choreomania' emerged in the nineteenth century at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and colonial rule. In this book, author K lina Gotman examines these choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines. Reading archives describing dramatic misformations-of bodies and body politics-she shows how prejudices against expressivity unravel, in turn revealing widespread anxieties about demonstrative agitation. This history of the fitful body complements stories of nineteenth-century discipline and regimentation. As she notes, constraints on movement imply constraints on political power and agency. In each chapter, Gotman confronts the many ways choreomania works as an extension of discourses shaping colonialist orientalism, which alternately depict riotous bodies as dangerously infected others, and as curious bacchanalian remains. Through her research, Gotman also shows how beneath the radar of this colonial discourse, men and women gathered together to repossess on their terms the gestures of social revolt.
Author: Alexandre-Jacques-François Brierre de Boismont
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Category : Hallucinations and illusions
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Author: Henri Clouzot
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Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Ruth Blackmore
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 9781843530787
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Accomodation - Eating and drinking - Shops and markets - Music and night life - Festivals and events - Paris suburbsn_
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Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Author: Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199538956
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the precocious genius whose extraordinary poetry is revolutionary in its visionary, hallucinatory content and its often liberated forms. He wrote all his poems between the ages of about 15 and 21, after which he turned his back on family, friends, and France to roam the world. In his final years he was a trader in the Horn of Africa. Out of the brief, colourful life and the poetry of sensory wildness has been created the myth of Rimbaud, an enduring icon of youth, rebellion, and freedom. But behind the myth lies a poetic adventure of high ambition and painful rigour, poignant yet heroic. Rimbaud is one of the greatest French poets of all times. This bilingual edition provides all of Rimbaud's poems, with the exception of his Latin verses and some small fragments. It also includes some of his prose pieces, chosen because they offer a commentary on his poetic concerns. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
