Author: Jean-Michel Racault
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840502913
Category : Utopias in literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 478
Book Description
Etudie l'utopie dans la littérature du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement les oeuvres évoquant un déplacement dans l'espace plutôt qu'une cité idéale, autre sens du terme. Ainsi, la littérature de voyage est abordée sous ses différentes formes : romans, contes philosophiques, satires et récits de voyage, avec des auteurs tels que Chateaubriand, Voltaire, Marivaux ...
Nulle Part Et Ses Environs
Author: Jean-Michel Racault
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840502913
Category : Utopias in literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 478
Book Description
Etudie l'utopie dans la littérature du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement les oeuvres évoquant un déplacement dans l'espace plutôt qu'une cité idéale, autre sens du terme. Ainsi, la littérature de voyage est abordée sous ses différentes formes : romans, contes philosophiques, satires et récits de voyage, avec des auteurs tels que Chateaubriand, Voltaire, Marivaux ...
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782840502913
Category : Utopias in literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 478
Book Description
Etudie l'utopie dans la littérature du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle, et plus particulièrement les oeuvres évoquant un déplacement dans l'espace plutôt qu'une cité idéale, autre sens du terme. Ainsi, la littérature de voyage est abordée sous ses différentes formes : romans, contes philosophiques, satires et récits de voyage, avec des auteurs tels que Chateaubriand, Voltaire, Marivaux ...
Author:
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2959530802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2959530802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Dystopia(n) Matters
Author: Fátima Vieira
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443850233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The volume is divided into two parts, separated by an Intermezzo. The first part, “Dystopia Matters”, benefits from the contribution of reputed scholars of the field of Utopian Studies, who were asked to make a statement explaining why dystopia is important. The Intermezzo completes this part and offers the reader an informed discussion of the concepts of utopia, dystopia and anti-utopia whilst providing ground for the case studies presented in the second part, in the sections devoted to literature, film, and theatre. In one way or another, despite the variety of approaches, all contributors argue for the idea that, if dystopia has invaded most forms of contemporary discourse, its sibling, utopia, has not been eradicated from the scene. Furthermore, the studies show that the tension between the two concepts is instrumental to our cautious, conscious, and tentative construction of the future.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443850233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The volume is divided into two parts, separated by an Intermezzo. The first part, “Dystopia Matters”, benefits from the contribution of reputed scholars of the field of Utopian Studies, who were asked to make a statement explaining why dystopia is important. The Intermezzo completes this part and offers the reader an informed discussion of the concepts of utopia, dystopia and anti-utopia whilst providing ground for the case studies presented in the second part, in the sections devoted to literature, film, and theatre. In one way or another, despite the variety of approaches, all contributors argue for the idea that, if dystopia has invaded most forms of contemporary discourse, its sibling, utopia, has not been eradicated from the scene. Furthermore, the studies show that the tension between the two concepts is instrumental to our cautious, conscious, and tentative construction of the future.
Eighteenth-Century Escape Tales
Author: Michael J. Mulryan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611487714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611487714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century. Prison escape narratives are reflections of the tension between the individual’s potential happiness via freedom and the confines of the social order. Contemporary readers identified with the prisoner, who, like them suffered the injustices of an absolutist regime. The state imprisons such renegades not just out of a desire to protect the public but more importantly to protect the state itself. Hence, prison escape tales can be linked with a revolutionary tendency: when free, such former detainees equipped with a pen openly and justly challenge the status quo, hoping to inspire their readers to do the same. Escape tales have had a considerable impact on cultural identity, because they embody the interdependent relationship between literature and myth on the one hand and literature and history on the other.
Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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The Political Philosophy of Fénelon
Author: Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190079649
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Fénelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. Despite his influence there has been to date no interpretive monograph in English devoted specifically to his thought. Ryan Patrick Hanley aims to correct this oversight, providing the first book-length interpretative study of Fénelon's writings to appear in English. A companion volume to Hanley's comprehensive English translation of Fénelon's moral and political writings, this book focuses on Fénelon's political thought as a method of understanding his impact on areas ranging from economics and statecraft to religion and literature. Hanley begins by reconstructing Fénelon's political ideas for those who may be encountering his work directly or at length for the first time. He then articulates the connections between Fénelon's political thought and several other fields to which he made significant and long-recognized contributions, including not only philosophy and political science, but also economics, education, literature, theology, and spirituality. Building from this foundation, Hanley constructs a new understanding and appreciation of Fénelon's political thought and its significance. He argues that Fénelon is better understood as a moderate and modern thinker rather than as a radical or reactionary, and that Fénelon deserves to be seen not merely as a political thinker but as a political philosopher, one whose work has direct relevance to our political world today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190079649
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Fénelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. Despite his influence there has been to date no interpretive monograph in English devoted specifically to his thought. Ryan Patrick Hanley aims to correct this oversight, providing the first book-length interpretative study of Fénelon's writings to appear in English. A companion volume to Hanley's comprehensive English translation of Fénelon's moral and political writings, this book focuses on Fénelon's political thought as a method of understanding his impact on areas ranging from economics and statecraft to religion and literature. Hanley begins by reconstructing Fénelon's political ideas for those who may be encountering his work directly or at length for the first time. He then articulates the connections between Fénelon's political thought and several other fields to which he made significant and long-recognized contributions, including not only philosophy and political science, but also economics, education, literature, theology, and spirituality. Building from this foundation, Hanley constructs a new understanding and appreciation of Fénelon's political thought and its significance. He argues that Fénelon is better understood as a moderate and modern thinker rather than as a radical or reactionary, and that Fénelon deserves to be seen not merely as a political thinker but as a political philosopher, one whose work has direct relevance to our political world today.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada
Author: Royal Society of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Diptera Biology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diptera
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Posthumous America
Author: Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia”—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution—of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors’ liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia”—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution—of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors’ liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.