Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738181651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738181651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Queer Writing
Author: E. StephensPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text.
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860-1920
Author: Martyn LyonsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
Gide's Bent
Author: Michael LuceyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195080866
Category : Gay men in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of Andre Gide. Focusing on his writing of the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, and also the years of his most notable left-wing political activity, the work interrogates both the political content of his reflections on his homosexuality and the ways in which his sexuality inflected his political interests.
A French Grammar
Author: Joseph de LaportePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Quarterly Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives
Author: Kenneth ReedsPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443853291
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject. The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women’s articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French. Among many themes, the book fosters discussion on matters of courage, strength, resilience, freedom, self-fulfillment, political engagement, compassion, faith, and the envisioning of unconventional alliances that follow a woman’s stepping out of her comfort zone. The fourteen essays included in this collection discuss works of women authors from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, France and the Caribbean. They exemplify a variety of self-narratives that blur unified conceptualizations of both identity and national belonging. They address questions about women writers’ attitudes towards risk and their willingness to change the status quo. They also explore the many personal and public forms in which agency manifests through risk-taking engagements; the ways in which women challenge the conventional wisdom about feminine reserve and aversion to danger; the multiplicity of seen and unforeseen consequences of risk taking; the all-too-frequent lack of recognition of female courage; the overcoming of obstacles by taking risks; and, frequently, the amelioration of women’s lives. Addressing both the broader context of the study of risk and the more specific areas of female expression and autobiography in Francophone cultures, this collection is attractive to a diverse audience with the potential to cross disciplines and inform a wide body of research. A number of the essays deal with issues born in postcolonial circumstances. This examination of the elucidation of marginalized voices should prove enlightening to an array of scholars researching specific ethnic, sexual, gender, and general subjects related to identity. In making inroads towards expanding the well-developed area of risk studies into the humanities, this collection makes an important contribution that has the potential to promote a variety of cross-disciplinary research including examinations of the psychology and sociology behind chauvinism, personal expression, and formative experiences.
Canada
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Nineteenth-century French Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Soldiers, Bombs and Rifles
Author: Paola Lo CascioPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This volume is the result of an academic initiative organized by the Center for International Historical Studies of the University of Barcelona (CEHI-UB) in April 2012, with the purpose of bringing Military History to the center of the attention of university and historiographical debate. This choice is based on the idea that, too often, Military History is considered a technical discipline, only intended for experts. On the contrary, we think that – on the one hand – this research field constitutes an unavoidable tool for the interpretation of the historical processes of contemporaneity, and that – on the other – Military History is among the most interesting research fields because of its intrinsic interdisciplinarity. On the basis of these considerations, the congress and the resulting book propose the analysis of some of the main war processes of the twentieth century, from a perspective that could situate them in the wider background defined by the conflicts themselves. The book gathers the contributions of Professors Fortunato Minniti (University of Roma Tre, Rome), Giuseppe Conti (University La Sapienza, Rome), Joan Villarroya (University of Barcelona), Allan R. Millett (University of New Orleans) and Antoni Segura i Mas (University of Barcelona), respectively about World War I, war intelligence, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the asymmetric conflicts ranging from the Cold War to more recent examples.
