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Book Synopsis Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA by : Bérengère Deprez
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA written by Bérengère Deprez and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the real effect of the United States on Yourcenar'slife and thought, a good read on a fascinating subject which critics have often treated dimissively. Future scholarship will be obliged to weigh Berengere Deprez's arguments and evidence seriously, and thank her for her clearheaded thoroughness. Prof. Brian Gill, University of Calgary, Canada --
Book Synopsis "We Met in Paris" by : Joan E Howard
Download or read book "We Met in Paris" written by Joan E Howard and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.
Download or read book Mishima written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 25, 1970, Japan's most renowned postwar novelist, Yukio Mishima, stunned the world by committing ritual suicide. Here, Marguerite Yourcenar, a brilliant reader of Mishima and a scholar with an eye for the cultural roles of fiction, unravels the author's life and politics: his affection for Western culture, his family and his homosexuality, his brilliant writings, and his carefully premeditated death.
Book Synopsis That Mighty Sculptor, Time by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book That Mighty Sculptor, Time written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of art.
Book Synopsis Dear Departed by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book Dear Departed written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1974 under the title 'Souvenirs Pieux', DEAR DEPARTED is the first volume of a trilogy by Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most celebrated French writers of the century, devoted to her own origins and background. Yourcenar describes the events surrounding her birth in 1903, then takes us back through the centuries to meet her mother's forebears: soldiers, essayists, idealists, heroines, even ambassadors. Throughout, the history of the family serves as a window on the history of a rapidly-changing Europe.Using memoirs, letters and momentos, Yourcenar richly evokes both the larger events on the European stage and the rhythms and textures of everyday existence. Though rarely visible, Yourcenar is everywhere present, her perceptions rendered in her unmistakable voice. The book is a tour-de-force of historical and literary imagination.
Book Synopsis Dreams and Destinies by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book Dreams and Destinies written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final untranslated work of Marguerite Yourcenar available for the first time in English.
Book Synopsis How Many Years by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book How Many Years written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Yourcenar, one of France's most celebrated authors, here continues the absorbing tale of her background and origins. The first volume of her autobiographical trilogy, Dear Departed, was devoted to her maternal forebears. The current book, originally published in 1977 under the title Archives du Nord and now making its first appearance in English, introduces us to her father's side of the family. Yourcenar takes us back in time, to relive the tumultuous history of northeastern France through the eyes of a remarkable gallery of ancestors: canonesses and matriarchs, statesmen and scoundrels, merchants and artists (the painter Peter Paul Rubens married into the family). But the central character in the narrative is the individual who had the greatest formative influence on Yourcenar: her father, Michel de Crayencour, who educated her, encouraged her literary ambitions, and fostered in her the intellectual breadth, originality, and subtlety that are so characteristic of her work.
Book Synopsis Marguerite Yourcenar by : Georgia Hooks Shurr
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar written by Georgia Hooks Shurr and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research traces the history of the evolution of Marguerite Yourcenar's creative imagination and its expression in novel and short story form from her early, experimental novellas through the historical novels of the mature artist. This study concentrates on Yourcenar's artistic achievement and essentially reveals the development of the self-conscious style of the French author. An interesting volume for students and scholars of French literature and women's studies.
Book Synopsis Marguerite Yourcenar in Counterpoint by : C. Frederick Farrell
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar in Counterpoint written by C. Frederick Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written in English to examine exclusively the work of Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman member of the French Academy. Emphasizes her artistry as well as her thought, her female as well as male characters, her poetry, plays, essays, and novels. An excellent text for graduate students and scholars of literature.
Book Synopsis Two Lives and a Dream by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book Two Lives and a Dream written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Aidan Ellis Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Rembrandt's Amsterdam, "An Obscure Man" is the story of Nathanaël-innocent, open to experience-born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In "A Lovely Morning," Nathanaël's young son joins a touring company of Jacobean actors. "Anna, soror . . .," the final tale, is an account of illicit passion in the baroque world of Naples."An Obscure Man swarms with life. This intricately researched, imaginative, beautifully written tale of a young man's brief life in the mid-17th century is entirely engrossing."-Leona Weiss, San Francisco Chronicle"In these three stories, [Yourcenar] succeeds in making the essences of these past lives a part of the reader's future through the sheer intensity of their portrayal."-Margaret Ezell, Houston Chronicle
Book Synopsis A Blue Tale and Other Stories by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book A Blue Tale and Other Stories written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short stories by a Belgian writer (1903-1987), written in her youth. The title story is on Greek treasure hunters who kidnap a deaf-mute girl to lead them to a cave of sapphires and are punished for it, while An Evil Spell is on sorcery in an Italian village.
Book Synopsis Oriental Tales by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book Oriental Tales written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author. "From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.
Book Synopsis A Coin in Nine Hands by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book A Coin in Nine Hands written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Yourcenar's story of Rome under the shadow of Mussolini is built around the tale of a failed attempt to assassinate the dictator. Around this she weaves the stories of nine people whose lives intersect through the passing from hand to hand of a ten-lire coin. As the skilfully constructed narrative unfolds we see how all the characters, from the whore and the flower seller to the rich doctor and the fading film star, are caught up in their own illusions and in the illusions engendered by Il Duce and his fascist state. One of Yourcenar's most distinctive works, A Coin in Nine Hands succeeds both as political fable and as a richly observed study of individuals striving to live their lives in a corrupt and morally bankrupt state.
Book Synopsis Coup de Grâce by : Marguerite Yourcenar
Download or read book Coup de Grâce written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, "Coup de Grace" tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden.
Download or read book Dirty Truths written by Michael Parenti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political essays and poems. In Young People Are Different, he writes: "Hostage in their homes, / kept alive by the telephone / fully animated only when taking flight / in rough formation. / They rebel / so better to submit / to their totalitarian peerage."
Book Synopsis French XX Bibliography, Issue #65 by : Sheri K. Dion
Download or read book French XX Bibliography, Issue #65 written by Sheri K. Dion and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constantine written by Paul Stephenson and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “knowledgeable account” of the emperor who brought Christianity to Rome “provides valuable insight into Constantine’s era” (Kirkus Reviews). “By this sign conquer.” So began the reign of Constantine. In 312 A.D. a cross appeared in the sky above his army as he marched on Rome. In answer, Constantine bade his soldiers to inscribe the cross on their shield, and so fortified, they drove their rivals into the Tiber and claimed Rome for themselves. Constantine led Christianity and its adherents out of the shadow of persecution. He united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire, raising a new city center in the east. When barbarian hordes consumed Rome itself, Constantinople remained as a beacon of Roman Christianity. Constantine is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors—written by a richly gifted historian. Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance. “Successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex biography of the Emperor Constantine.” —Publishers Weekly
