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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Total Pages : 790 pages
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Download or read book The Cornhill Magazine written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : OCTAVE MIRBEAU
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Le Jardin des supplices (French Edition) written by OCTAVE MIRBEAU and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait : "Avant de raconter un des plus effroyables épisodes de mon voyage en Extrême-Orient, il est peut-être intéressant que j'explique brièvement dans quelles conditions je fus amené à l'entreprendre. C'est de l'histoire contemporaine." Descriptif : Le jardin des supplices, invention littéraire de Mirbeau, réunit dans une configuration obsédante ces deux clichés : celui de la cruauté des Chinois qui lui sert de paravent exotique pour exposer une réflexion anthropologique portant sur la cruauté humaine en général. Il ne contient pas seulement des descriptions horrifiantes de supplices. Il contient aussi des considérations sur la cruauté humaine et sur la pulsion scopique et sur le voyeurisme. Le roman d’Octave Mirbeau a eu à l’époque un grand succès. Extrait : Si tu es près de moi… quand je mourrai… cher petit cœur… écoute bien !… Tu mettras… c’est cela… tu mettras un joli coussin de soie jaune entre mes pauvres petits pieds et le bois du cercueil… Et puis… tu tueras mon beau chien du Laos… et tu l’allongeras, tout sanglant, contre moi… comme il a coutume de s’allonger lui-même, tu sais, avec une patte sur ma cuisse et une autre patte sur mon sein… Et puis… longtemps… longtemps… tu m’embrasseras, cher amour, sur les dents… et dans les cheveux… Et tu me diras des choses… des choses si jolies… et qui bercent et qui brûlent… des choses comme quand tu m’aimes… Pas, tu veux, mon chéri ?… Tu me promets ?… Voyons, ne fais pas cette figure d’enterrement… Ce n’est pas de mourir, qui est triste… c’est de vivre quand on n’est pas heureux… Jure ! jure que tu me promets !… Le Jardin des supplices n'est pas seulement le catalogue de toutes les perversions dans lesquelles s'est complu l'imaginaire de 1900. L'ouvrage exprime aussi l'ambiguïté de l'attitude d'un Européen libéral, mais Européen avant tout, devant le colonialisme et ce qu'on n'appelait pas encore le Tiers Monde. Pour Mirbeau, la Chine est le lieu des plaisirs mortels et, par leur système pénal et l'invraisemblable raffinement de leur cruauté, les Chinois ne peuvent être à ses yeux que des barbares : Emmanuelle sur fond de guerre du Viêt-nam, comme l'écrit Michel Delon. Mais les Chinois vivent dans une société plus solidaire et matériellement moins asservie que la nôtre. Et surtout ils sont d'admirables artistes. Tel est le paradoxe de la Chine : un jardin de supplices mais aussi les plus belles porcelaines, les plus beaux bronzes que l'on ait jamais faits. «Voici donc les Barbares à peau jaune dont les civilisés d'Europe à peau blanche violent le sol. Nous sommes toujours les mêmes sauvages, les mêmes ennemis de la Beauté.»
Author : John Anzalone
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004648488
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Jeering Dreamers written by John Anzalone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The re-emergence in recent years of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam as a key figure in fin de siècle literature can be attributed in large part to the intense interest his prescient l'Eve future (1886) has generated among scholars. In effect, the novel confronts with breathtaking focus central taboos and ambivalences about the decadent period. It posits an inescapable, mechanistic linkage between desire and technology; it suggests the constructed nature of gender; it casts woman down so as to exalt her, even as it intimates the arbitrariness and fragility of the empowerment prerogatives implicit in such an operation. It is this mine for the study of fin de siècle mentalities that the present volume explores. Begun at the 1992 NCFS colloquium at Binghamton University as a collective project of the Friends of Villiers, Jeering Dreamers brings together 13 essays by Villiers scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Their work promises, in the words of the eminent Villièrien Alan Raitt, to 'Éclairer l'Eve future d'un jour nouveau-ou, plus exactement, de plusieurs jours nouveaux.
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Publisher : TheBookEdition
ISBN 13 : 2959203925
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (592 download)
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Author : Peter Mason
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001491
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing America written by Peter Mason and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness. Peter Mason acknowledges that America was part of the European imagination before its discovery, but challenges the claim that the European vision of America is merely a distorted view of some extra-European reality. He relates the way in which Europe tended to see the inhabitants of South America as monstrous figures to a longstanding European tradition on the ‘Plinian’ human races, and goes on to point out that the existence of similar representations among contemporary Amerindian peoples calls into question the extent to which ethnocentrism is an exclusively European idea. Drawing on anthropological, literary and philosophical studies, he shows how European representations of America constitute a cultural monologue which tells more about the Old World than the New. This book will be a stimulating reading for all those working in the fields of symbolic and cultural anthropology, semiotics, cultural studies, Latin America, structuralism and deconstruction.
Author : Dirk Sacré
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN 13 : 9058679292
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia written by Dirk Sacré and published by Universitaire Pers Leuven. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the annual journal Humanistica Lovaniensia is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Please visit www.lup.be for the full table of contents.
Author : Pierre Cauwet
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Total Pages : 206 pages
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Author : Guri Barstad
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857327
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book States of Decadence written by Guri Barstad and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States of Decadence is a two volume anthology that focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence. Particular attention is given to literature from the end of the 1800s, the fin de siècle; however, the essays presented here are not restricted to this historical period, but draw lines both back in time and forward to our day to illuminate the contradictory multiplicity inherent in decadence. Furthermore, the essays go beyond literary studies, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence manifested in the arts and culture, such as in music, opera, film, history, and even jewelry design. Volume 2 comprises essays on the following thematic areas: “Images of Decadent Women”, “Transmedia Decadence”, “Contemporary Decadence”, and “Poetic Decadence”. The contributors are part of an active network of international scholars from many different countries. As the expansive title of the volume suggests, they explore the decadent aesthetic approach to the arts, to culture, and to a worldview that juxtaposes a strange mixture of conservatism and rebellion, ambivalence and deep convictions.
Author : Maria Pretzler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849667772
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Pausanias written by Maria Pretzler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Maria Pretzler combines a thorough introduction to Pausanias with exciting new perspectives. She considers the process and influences that shaped the "Periegesis", and maps out its literary and cultural context. Pausanias' text records contemporary interpretations of monuments and traditions, and is concerned with the identity and history of Greece, issues that were crucial concerns for Greeks under Roman rule. Parallels with various texts of the period offer insights into Pausanias' attitudes as well as illustrating important aspects of Second Sophistic culture. A discussion of Greek texts that deal with fictional or actual travel experiences provides a background for a detailed study of the Periegesis as travel literature. Pausanias' treatment of geography and his descriptions of landscapes, cities and artworks are considered in detail, and there is also a study of his methods as a historian. The final chapters deal with Pausanias' impact on modern approaches to Greece and ancient Greek culture.
Author : Anthony M. Snodgrass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520912780
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book An Archaeology of Greece written by Anthony M. Snodgrass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the whole field of the study of the past to make innovative discoveries and apply modern approaches by widening the aims of the discipline.
Author : Eleanor M. Hight
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136473874
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Colonialist Photography written by Eleanor M. Hight and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II. Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture.
Author : H. Allen Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075822
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Le Corbusier's Formative Years written by H. Allen Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail
Author : Bernard GastŽ
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 024424474X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)
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Author : James Hogg
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book London Society written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LOS ASPIRATION AUTONOMISTES EN EUROPE
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Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book LECONS FAITES A L'ECOLE DES HAUTE ETUDES SOCIALES written by LOS ASPIRATION AUTONOMISTES EN EUROPE and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. W. Arafat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604185
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Pausanias' Greece written by K. W. Arafat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a re-reading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Unlike existing studies, which are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false, this book takes them seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible that commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarize their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues."--BOOK JACKET.
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book London society written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
