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Book Synopsis Paratextuality in Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin by : Jeri DeBois King
Download or read book Paratextuality in Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin written by Jeri DeBois King and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is several studies in one, beginning with a positivistic examination of the paratext (subtitles, epigraphs, both editorial and authorial) that surrounds Balzac's first signed novel. It yields several readings. Numerous references to critics like Barthes and Greenblatt support the author's attempt at a deconstructive reading of Balzac, subverting the positivistic approach to the text by focusing on extra-textual elements, with the help of Genette. This study, is an exercise in post-structuralist criticism, a celebration of Balzac, and a demonstration of the implications of Genette's work in contemporary literary criticism, useful to both the beginner and the graduate student of Balzac.
Download or read book Dreaming in Books written by Andrew Piper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. But it was not just the advent of mass printing that created the era’s “bookish” culture. According to Andrew Piper, romantic writing and romantic writers played a crucial role in adjusting readers to this increasingly international and overflowing literary environment. Learning how to use and to want books occurred through more than the technological, commercial, or legal conditions that made the growing proliferation of books possible; the making of such bibliographic fantasies was importantly a product of the symbolic operations contained within books as well. Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book’s identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book’s rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age.
Download or read book Paratexts written by Gerard Genette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.
Book Synopsis No Island is an Island by : Carlo Ginzburg
Download or read book No Island is an Island written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. 14 illustrations.
Download or read book Print Cultures written by Caroline Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine the effect of printed and digital texts on society. Featuring a general introduction to contemporary print culture and publishing studies, the volume includes 42 influential and innovative pieces of writing, arranged around themes such as authorship, women and print culture, colonial and postcolonial publishing and globalisation. Offering a concise survey of critical work, this volume is an essential companion for students of literature or publishing with an interest in the history of the book.
Book Synopsis France at the dawn of the twenty-first century, trends and transformations by : Rosalie Vermette
Download or read book France at the dawn of the twenty-first century, trends and transformations written by Rosalie Vermette and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an overview of major cultural themes in contemporary France. The section on politics deals with the issue of political cohabitation, the evolution of the Communist Party, the environment, social systems and the European Union. In the social arena, the articles encompass the evolution of the family, benefits for the elderly, the education system, and the social implications of graffiti. The changing nature of French identity is brought to light through an analysis of the press and the debate on multiculturalism. A review of cultural issues includes the notion of leisure, the contemporary social novel, the cosmopolitan tradition in French film, and new cultural spaces.The work concludes with perceptions of France from the United States as seen through diplomatic relations and remakes of french films, and a final essay on France. The various articles include numerous bibliographic references and will be of great interest to Francophiles, academics, and students of French language and culture.
Book Synopsis A critical edition of the circumstantial verse of Joachim Du Bellay by : Joachim Du Bellay
Download or read book A critical edition of the circumstantial verse of Joachim Du Bellay written by Joachim Du Bellay and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Henri II (1547-1559) consisted of a wealth of patriotic prose. The events Du Bellay commented on culminated at the end of the reign with the capture of Calais and the accidental death of the King. This work provides insight into the patriotic mentality of Du Bellay.
Book Synopsis Le romant by : Anatole de Montaiglon
Download or read book Le romant written by Anatole de Montaiglon and published by Lewiston, N.Y., USA : Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English translation of an anonymous French romance offers readers an unusual and curious window on the realities and mentalities of the late French Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis Strategies of "writing the Self" in the French Modern Novel by : Eileen M. Angelini
Download or read book Strategies of "writing the Self" in the French Modern Novel written by Eileen M. Angelini and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub 6-1-1. United States Army in World War 2. Reprint of the 1957 edition. 12 maps are attached to the inside of the back cover. Describes the assault on North Africa in 1942. The assault led to a bitter conflict that finally culminated in the defeat of the Axis powers in Tunisia seven months later.
Book Synopsis An Investigation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Posthumously Published Notebooks for an Ethics by : Gail Evelyn Linsenbard
Download or read book An Investigation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Posthumously Published Notebooks for an Ethics written by Gail Evelyn Linsenbard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Sartre's reflections in his posthumously published Cahiers Pour une Morale. It describes and elucidates the key concepts and ideas that might suggest Sartre's conception of une morale.
Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Pessimism and Strategies of Containment in the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by : David Bryant
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Pessimism and Strategies of Containment in the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant written by David Bryant and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes an overall interpretation based on an analysis of three constants. First, Maupassant accepts that man lives in an objective, contingent world in which he has no purpose, and elevates the notion of chance into an explanation of the human condition. Secondly, this awareness explains the adoption of a view of the world as farce. Thirdly, in order to shape and mitigate the consequences of these positions, Maupassant elaborates a rhetoric of pessimism and strategies of containment. The book argues that this triple approach enables Maupassant to rise above the evidence of his experience and gives the reader access to a work that otherwise might appear inconsequential and disparate. Maupassant's three hundred and six short stories represent a unified series of variations on three constants and offer a coherent, structured response to a personal dilemma that nevertheless has wider application.
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Book Synopsis Mental Representation Theory in Old French Allegory from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by : Katharine G. MacCornack
Download or read book Mental Representation Theory in Old French Allegory from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries written by Katharine G. MacCornack and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses mental representation theory, (propounded by Umberto Eco and other contemporary scholars) to interpret dream allegory in medieval French allegorical texts. The texts covered include The Romance of the Rose, The Dream of Hell, and The Tournament of the Antichrist. Mental representation theory interprets interpretation in a clearer, more complete fashion, by looking at the dream, the cosmic nature of allegory, and its linguistic and mental structures.
Book Synopsis Text as Resonance by : Lucette Finas
Download or read book Text as Resonance written by Lucette Finas and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature-Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel by : Moya Longstaffe
Download or read book Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature-Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel written by Moya Longstaffe and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the works of Corneille, Stendahl, and Claudel, this work traces the literary evolution of France of the dual ideals of love and heroism, the inspiration of great literature since the medieval courtly epics.
Book Synopsis An English Translation of Les Princes Du Jargon by : Alice Becker-Ho
Download or read book An English Translation of Les Princes Du Jargon written by Alice Becker-Ho and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking comparative study of dangerous-class slangs in use across ten countries, from Europe to the Americas, brings to light the common influences that have helped to shape them over the last five hundred years. (Facing French and English translation)
Book Synopsis A Translation of Three Plays by Lucette Desvignes by : Lucette Desvignes
Download or read book A Translation of Three Plays by Lucette Desvignes written by Lucette Desvignes and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes these plays accessible to contemporary scholars, dramatists, directors and students, to be read, discussed and performed. Eurydice, Eurydice is a classical allegory in a modern setting, addressing the theme of loss and recovery within contemporary society. Strange Encounters is reputed to be the first play in France to use onstage the cinematographic technique of flashback to create a play within a play. In Marsyas, Desvignes combines tragic discourse with musical interlude to achieve dramatic catharsis, representing the struggle of humanity against forces that would diminish individuality, creativity and freedom.
