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Investigating Simenon

Author : Russell Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648271
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Simenon written by Russell Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon's compelling narratives capture the anxieties of men whose patriarchal position was under threat in an era of insurgent feminist movements. These concerns are also evident in Simenon's pervasive preoccupation with sexuality, as well as his political stance that stems from his petit-bourgeois upbringing. This groundbreaking study includes interwoven commentary on all 191 novels Simenon published under his own name, including several that have never been translated into English, as well as a number of short stories and several pseudonymous works.

Constellations of Reading

Author : Carlo Salzani
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118601
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Constellations of Reading written by Carlo Salzani and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of interpretation that this entails. The approach must be figural, that is, focused on images, and driven by the notion of actualization. Figural reading, in the very sui generis Benjaminian way, understands figures as constellations, whereby an image of the past juxtaposes them with an image of the present and is thus actualized. To apply this method to Benjamin's own work means first to identify some figures. The book singles out the Flâneur, the Detective, the Prostitute and the Ragpicker, and then sets them alongside a contemporary account of the same figure: the Flâneur in Juan Goytisolo's Landscapes after the Battle (1982), the Detective in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (1987), the Prostitute in Dacia Maraini's Dialogue between a Prostitute and her Client (1973), and the Ragpicker in Mudrooroo's The Mudrooroo/Müller Project (1993). The book thereby, on the one hand, analyses the politics of reading Benjamin today and, on the other, sets his work against a variety of contemporary aesthetics and politics of interpretation.

The World of the Aramaeans

Author : P.M. Michèle Daviau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567200493
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Aramaeans written by P.M. Michèle Daviau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Aramaeans is a three-volume collection of definitive essays about the Aramaeans and the biblical world of which they were a part. Areas of interest include the language, epigraphy and history of the Aramaeans of Syria as well of their neighbours, the Israelites, Phoenicians, Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites. The first volume, dealing with the Aramaeans in the Bible, has contributions by Douglas Frayne, Stephen Dempster, José Loza Vera, E.J. Revell, Alexander Rofé, André Lemaire, Francolino, J. Gontalves, Baruch Halpern, Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, John William Wevers, Albert Pietersma and Felice Israel.

Orientalia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Orientalia written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Dictionary of French Literature

Author : John Flower
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538168588
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of French Literature written by John Flower and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the possible exception of Great Britain, France can justifiably lay claim to possess the richest literary history of any country in Western Europe. This book covers the authors and their works, literary movements, and philosophical and social developments that have had a direct impact on style or content, and major historical events such as the two world wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the Algerian War, or the events of May 1968 that are directly reflected in a substantial body of imaginative writing. Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, and on the literary reactions to major national and international events such as revolutions and wars. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about French literature.

The Age of Doubt

Author : Andrea Camilleri
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101584874
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Doubt written by Andrea Camilleri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The day after a storm floods Vigàta, Inspector Montalbano encounters a strange, bedraggled woman who expresses interest in a certain yacht scheduled to dock that afternoon. Not long after she's gone, the crew of the yacht reports having found a dinghy in the port, and within it, a disfigured corpse. Also at anchor is an eighty-five-foot luxury boat with a somewhat shady crew. Both boats will have to stay in Vigàta until the investigation is over—the unidentified man was poisoned, it seems. Based on the information—and misinformation—the mysterious woman shared with him, Montalbano begins to think the occupants of the yacht just might know a little more about the man's death than they're letting on.

The Life of an Unknown

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231118408
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book The Life of an Unknown written by Alain Corbin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-Francois Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.

The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington

Author : Arthur Wellesley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110802520X
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington written by Arthur Wellesley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed collection of various military documents written by the Duke of Wellington throughout his career.

Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel

Author : Jaime L. Waters
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451496605
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel written by Jaime L. Waters and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital to an agrarian community's survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices. Jaime L. Waters examines these sacred functions and the various personnel active in the use and operation of the sites and shows that they were sacred spaces connected to Yahweh, under his control and subject to his power to bless, curse, and save, providing Israel a special ritual access to Yahweh.

Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War

Author : Deborah Toner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350199605
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War by : Deborah Toner

Download or read book Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War written by Deborah Toner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines alcohol production, consumption, regulation, and commerce, alongside the gendered, medical, religious, ideological, and cultural practices that surrounded alcohol from 1850 to 1950. Through analyzing major changes in alcohol's place in society, contributors demonstrate the important connections between industrialization, empire-building, and the growth of the nation-state. They also identify the diverse actors and communities that built, contested, and resisted those processes around the world. Overall, this book proposes a new global framework that is vital to understanding how deeply alcohol was involved in central processes shaping the modern world. It shows how empires were partly built through alcohol, in both economic and ideological terms, yet alcohol production, trade, and consumption were also sites for anti-colonial resistance. Contributors also discuss how alcohol regulations and public health discourses increasingly revealed the intent and reach of state power to monitor and police citizens, as well as the legitimization of that power through nationalism. Illustrated with over 50 images, the book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers studying the history of alcohol, as well as the cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries more broadly.

The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France

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Author : Arthur Wellesley of Wellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France written by Arthur Wellesley of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bradley Bibliography: Additions and corrections to volumes 1-4. Index of authors and titles. Index of Greek authors and titles. Index of Russian and Servian authors and title. Subject index to volumes 1-5. 1918

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Author : Alfred Rehder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Bradley Bibliography: Additions and corrections to volumes 1-4. Index of authors and titles. Index of Greek authors and titles. Index of Russian and Servian authors and title. Subject index to volumes 1-5. 1918 written by Alfred Rehder and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peninsula

Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Peninsula written by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Simenon, a Critical Biography

Author : Stanley G. Eskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Simenon, a Critical Biography written by Stanley G. Eskin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to straight fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and straight fiction.His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to popular traditions, literature, detective fiction, high literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)

Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit

Author : Theodore J. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387188
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit written by Theodore J. Lewis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Catalogue of Scientific Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book International Catalogue of Scientific Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index

Author : Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index written by Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: