Author: Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Author: Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
France Since 1945
Author: Robert GildeaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192192469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The last fifty years have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German Occupation, the political and social implications of the influx of foreign immigrants, the destruction of traditional rural life, and the threat of Anglo American culture to French language and civilization. Robert Gildea's account examines French politics, society, and culture as well as France's role in the world from 1945 to 1995. He looks at France's attempt to recover national greatness after the Second World War; its attempt to deal with the fear of German resurgence by building the European Community; the Algerian war; and the later development of a neo-colonialism to preserve its influence in Africa and the Pacific. He traces the career of General de Gaulle, the revolution of 1968, and the trend towards both political consensus and political disillusionment. He also examines the rise and fall of the French intellectual, the changing cultural policy of the state, and the threat of feminism, regionalism, and multiculturalism to the ideal of the 'One and Indivisible Republic'.
Vichy
Author: Eric ConanPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874517958
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Commemorating the Holocaust
Author: Rebecca CliffordPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191669288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Commemorating the Holocaust reveals how and why the Holocaust came to play a prominent role in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War. By charting the development of official, national Holocaust commemorations in France and Italy, Rebecca Clifford explains why the wartime persecution of Jews, a topic ignored or marginalized in political discourse through much of the Cold War period, came to be a subject of intense and often controversial debate in the 1990s and 2000s. How and why were official Holocaust commemorations created? Why did the drive for states to 'remember' their roles in the persecution of Jewish populations accelerate only after the collapse of the Cold War? Who pressed for these commemorations, and what motivated their activism? To what extent was the discourse surrounding national Holocaust commemorations really about the genocide at all? Commemorating the Holocaust explores these key questions, challenging commonly-held assumptions about the origins of and players involved in the creation of Holocaust memorial days. Clifford draws conclusions that shed light both on the state of Holocaust memory in France and Italy, and more broadly on the collective memory of World War II in contemporary Europe.
Baudelaire's Poetic Patterns
Author: BroomePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004649441
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
This major new study of Baudelaire is a journey into the secret language of Les Fleurs du Mal: the expressive pliabilities of its verse-forms and syntax, the fluctuations of its rhythms, its significant sonorities, its metaphorical figures and dynamic image-patterns, its network of nerves and trigger-points, its shifting underground of parallels and contrasts, analogies and antitheses. Through a strategic selection of poems constituting a 'constellation', a formal pattern of mutually illuminating parts, the analysis aims to show that form and theme are indissoluble: that each movement in the texture of the verse, each pulse, each rise and fall, each intensification or release, not only aids and abets the thrust of the poet's inspiration but is moulding and, in the end, creating the subtleties of sense, which cannot exist but in the weft and web of the breathing, evolving text. It is a study which prioritizes the individual poem, then the poem within an expanding formation of poems, then Baudelaire within and beyond that formation: an infini dans le fini. It is also an enquiry into what makes poetry, as well as a provocative contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature of criticism.
Community at Loose Ends
Author: Miami Theory Collective (Oxford, Ohio)Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The Longest Shadow
Author: Geoffrey H. HartmanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253330338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Distinguished literary scholar Geoffrey H. Hartman, himself forced to leave Germany at age nine, collects his essays, both scholarly and personal, that focus on the Holocaust. Hartman contends that although progress has been made, we are only beginning to understand the horrendous events of 1933 to 1945. The continuing struggle for meaning, consolation, closure, and the establishment of a collective memory against the natural tendency toward forgetfulness is a recurring theme. The many forms of response to the devastation - from historical research and survivors' testimony to the novels, films, and monuments that have appeared over the last fifty years - reflect and inform efforts to come to grips with the past, despite events (like those at Bitburg) that attempt to foreclose it. The stricture that poetry after Auschwitz is ""barbaric"" is countered by the increased sense of responsibility incumbent on the creators of these works.
Fleurs du mal
Author: William J. ThompsonPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826512970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaireís collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.
Memoires
Author: Philippe de Comines (sieur d'Argenton)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Bulletins Et Mémoires de la Société Médicale Des Hôpitaux de Paris
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Internal medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
