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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853264658
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (646 download)
Download or read book The Confessions written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a frank treatment of Rousseau's sexual and intellectual development. It offers a model for the reflective life: the solitary, uncompromising individual; the enemy of servitude and habit; and the selfish egoist who dedicates himself to a particular ideal.
Author : Madeleine B. Ellis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421434482
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Rousseau's Venetian Story written by Madeleine B. Ellis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966. This book is primarily a literary study of Rousseau's account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in book 7 of the Confessions and written in 1769. The author analyzes Rousseau's methods of achieving an artistic rendering of psychological truth in autobiography, as exemplified in his treatment of the events of 1742–1749. Professor Madeleine Ellis contributes to an understanding of Rousseau as a creative artist and positions him vis-à-vis the classical and romantic movements. Ellis collates the text of the Confessions with contemporary correspondence and other documents to show how discrepancies between the two have artistic implications. These implications lead her to define Rousseau's principles and methods as a man of letters and the interrelations of art and truth in his memoirs. In revealing that Rousseau, the memorialist, gives an artistic rendering of psychological truth, Ellis shows Rousseau's attitude toward truth. She does this by following a path of analysis unexplored by previous critics but indicated by Rousseau himself when he says, "It is the story of my soul that I have promised . . . I record not so much the events of my life as the state of my soul as they happened." Ultimately, the objective of this study is to illustrate the artistic means—literary and rhetorical—employed by Rousseau and their implications for the truth he proposed.
Author : Annemaré Kotzé
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004139265
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Augustine's Confessions written by Annemaré Kotzé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reading of the "Confessions" focuses on its aim to convert its readers (it displays some characteristics of the protreptic genre) and on a specific segment of its potential audience, Augustine's erstwhile co-religionists, the Manichaeans.
Author : Victor Brombert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674390126
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hidden Reader written by Victor Brombert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson in criticism. Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism--wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic--that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves.
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780742643017
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Les Confessions written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681497239
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Augustine's Confessions written by Saint Augustine and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as his first hearers were captivated by his powerful conversion story, so also have many millions been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. Lively narrative and colorful anecdotes are interspersed with passages of great poetry in praise of God. In the process of describing his own very human failings, Augustine also gives advice on how to live a committed Christian life. His view that happiness is not to be found in transitory physical pleasure, but in searching for the truth beyond the material world, is more than ever relevant today.
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201620
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Reveries of the Solitary Walker written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation.
Author : Jaume Cabre
Publisher : Arcadia Books
ISBN 13 : 9781910050576
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Confessions written by Jaume Cabre and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony. I confess. At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer s, Adri� Ard�vol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father s study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni violin retains the shadows of a crime committed many years earlier. His mother, a cold, distant and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games, full of unwanted questions. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adri� s world with guilt, secrets and deeply troubling mysteries that take him years to uncover and driving him deep into the past where atrocities are methodically exposed and examined. Gliding effortlessly between centuries, and at the same time providing a powerful narrative that is at once shocking, compelling, mysterious, tragic, humorous and gloriously readable, Confessions reaches a crescendo that is not only unexpected but provides one of the most startling denouements in contemporary literature. Confessions is a consummate masterpiece in any language, with an ending that will not just leave you thinking, but quite possibly change the way you think forever.
Author : Jordy Rosenberg
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399592288
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Confessions of the Fox written by Jordy Rosenberg and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • HuffPost • Kirkus Reviews • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Praise for Confessions of the Fox “A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility . . . an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes; an academic comedy spliced with period erotica; an intimate meditation on belonging.”—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. Read it.”—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties “A hat tip to Moby-Dick . . . a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges . . . one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.”—The New York Times Book Review “An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story . . . a bold first novel.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 152474803X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Confessions of the Flesh written by Michel Foucault and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brought to light at last--the fourth volume in the famous History of Sexuality series by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, his final work, which he had completed, but not yet published, upon his death in 1984 Michel Foucault's philosophy has made an indelible impact on Western thought, and his History of Sexuality series--which traces cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing that it is profoundly shaped by the power structures applied to it--is one of his most influential works. At the time of his death in 1984, he had completed--but not yet edited or published--the fourth volume, which posits that the origins of totalitarian self-surveillance began with the Christian practice of confession. This is a text both sweeping and deeply personal, as Foucault--born into a French Catholic family--undoubtedly wrestled with these issues himself. Since he had stipulated "Pas de publication posthume," this text has long been secreted away. However, the sale of the Foucault archives in 2013--which made this text available to scholars--prompted his nephew to seek wider publication. This attitude was shared by Foucault's longtime partner, Daniel Defert, who said, "What is this privilege given to Ph.D students? I have adopted this principle: It is either everybody or nobody.""--
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576755126
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Author : Francis Messner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Le statut des confessions religieuses des états candidats à l'Union Européenne written by Francis Messner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Leblanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Confessions of Arsène Lupin written by Maurice Leblanc and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Collins
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062851810
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Confessions of Frannie Langton written by Sara Collins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breathtaking debut, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, is a murder mystery that travels across the Atlantic and through the darkest channels of history. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade. All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship. Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself.
Author : Pamela Golbin
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847849058
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Couture Confessions ebook written by Pamela Golbin and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late legendary couturiers of modern fashion speaking eloquently about life, design, and inspiration. Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, McQueen—these names define haute couture, and long after the designers have passed away, their influence on fashion continues to be profound. In an exceptional compilation of the original words of these couturiers, Couture Confessions provides a unique and in-depth look at the lives and work of these fashion icons. In this engaging, beautifully designed book, Pamela Golbin, acclaimed chief curator of twentieth-century fashion and textiles at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs, has ingeniously constructed conversations in the designers’ own words that highlight their compelling personal stories as well as essential fashion "moments"—from designers Paul Poiret, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Madame Grès, Alexander McQueen, Madeleine Vionnet, and Gabrielle Chanel to Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Jeanne Lanvin, Pierre Balmain, and Christian Dior.Featuring striking illustrations by internationally recognized illustrator Yann Legendre, each "interview" asks the questions every fashion lover has always wanted to ask, making these legends approachable, human, and ever more inspiring.
