Memoir

Memoir PDF Author: Geological Survey of Canada
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Memoir

Memoir PDF Author: Geological Survey of Canada
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Dialogues raisonnés

Dialogues raisonnés PDF Author: Armand D'Oursy
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Complete French Grammar

Complete French Grammar PDF Author: William Henry Fraser
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Sibylline Sisters

Sibylline Sisters PDF Author: Fiona Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191618217
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages :

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The history of Virgil and his receptions is long and varied. His twentieth-century career transformed his appearance as an anaemic imitator of Homer into the 'Father of the West', speaking above all for the marginalized and exiled. At the turn of the millennium it is women writers who, having been largely absent from the story of Virgil's reception, are for the first time shaping a new aetas Vergiliana by drawing on his poems to speak of their own preoccupations and concerns. Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America (Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guin), Britain (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michèle Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer), Ireland (Eavan Boland), and continental Europe (Christa Wolf, Hélène Cixous, Charlotte Delbo and Monique Wittig), this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions, pleasures, and threats of the contemporary world. While each of the female writers included in this volume draws upon her own distinct cultural heritage, Cox focuses on a number of shared themes and values which emerge through their work. Through the works of these modern versions of the Sibyl, Virgil speaks both of explicitly female concerns and wider cultural issues and threats that shadow modern life.

The New Fraser and Squair complete French grammar

The New Fraser and Squair complete French grammar PDF Author: William Henry Fraser
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Sojourning, Shopping & Studying in Paris

Sojourning, Shopping & Studying in Paris PDF Author: Elizabeth Otis Williams
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Spaces of Belonging

Spaces of Belonging PDF Author: Elizabeth H. Jones
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401205000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Questions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate. The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the ‘postmodern maps’ that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today. Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing.

La Femme À Papa

La Femme À Papa PDF Author: Hervé
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Sans Famille

Sans Famille PDF Author: Hector Malot
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Confessions

Confessions PDF Author: Thomas Docherty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849666792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of 'transparency'. In a postmodern 'transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, 'here I take my stand'. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims 'I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.