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Book Synopsis The Mummy's Foot by : Théophile Gautier
Download or read book The Mummy's Foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mummy's Foot' is a gothic short story written by French writer, Théophile Gautier, author of 'Clarimonde'. The plot follows a man who buys a mummified foot in an antiques shop. It once belonged to an Egyptian princess, and it transpires that she wants it back. He is forced to make a deal. This is a classic short story in the genre and we a republishing it with a brand new introductory biography of the translator of the work, Lafcadio Hearn.
Book Synopsis The Mummy's Foot by : Théophile Gautier
Download or read book The Mummy's Foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mummy's Foot is a gothic tale, published in French as "Le Pied de Momie." It relates the adventures of a man who buys the 3,000 year old foot of Princess Hermonthis in a Parisian curio shop. Gautier has a fascination with Ancient Egypt as well as an obsession with mortality, decay, and the passage of time. When Princess Hermonthis takes him to her time and place of burial, he asks for her hand from her father, who flatly refuses because of his concern for durability, and the transience of the young man's existence compared to that of a three-thousand year old girl.
Book Synopsis The Mummy's Foot by : Theophile Gautier
Download or read book The Mummy's Foot written by Theophile Gautier and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunge into the distant past with this creepy tale from renowned gothic horror master Theophile Gautier. A man whiling away a pleasant afternoon browsing in the antique shops of Paris stumbles across a curious relic -- and is soon enmeshed in an adventure he never thought possible. Will he make it back alive? Read "The Mummy's Foot" to find out.
Book Synopsis Method in Madness by : Jutta Emma Fortin
Download or read book Method in Madness written by Jutta Emma Fortin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The language of the fantastic left its mark upon many different thinkers in 19th-century Europe. Marx's comparison of consumer goods to fetish objects, works by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam or other novelists about machines that assume lives of their own, or the diagnoses of psychological illness offered by doctors in Maupassant's tales all blur the lines between scientific description and beliefs in the magical. Building upon a wealth of critical studies devoted to the fantastic and upon Freud's theory of the unconscious, Jutta Fortin proposes that many classic stories of the fantastic undermine basic psychological mechanisms that are designed to help their users cope with shocking or disturbing events. By defining five of these defence mechanisms, and analyzing stories by eight writers that both illustrate and subvert such mechanisms, Dr. Fortin offers reasons why fantastic stories appealed to those readers who wished to better understand human motivations."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Works written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from Théophile Gautier by : Théophile Gautier
Download or read book Selections from Théophile Gautier written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Bodies written by Madeleine Dobie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France's colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this exchange: the prevalent figure of the "oriental woman," and the interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history. It also offers a genealogy of contemporary French attitudes to Islamic culture, in which beliefs about sexuality and gender relations continue to occupy a privileged place. The author examines the extent to which the rhetorical status and political implications of Orientalism register the changing circumstances of French colonial activity, tracing the convergence, or divergence, of colonial practice and the literary record. She also argues against the tendency, in both historical and theoretical writing on colonialism, to divide center from margins, metropolitan from colonial. Instead, she shows how colonial products and ideas permeated the domestic culture and shaped its evolution. Finally, the book proposes that the feminine figures of Orientalist texts are often interwoven with representations of language, and more specifically with representations of language as an alien and resistant codesomething other than the transparent medium of ideas. It suggests that in promoting awareness that language is not simply the neutral medium of thought and experience, these veiled figures of language function as "foreign bodies," creating disruptive effects within an economy orchestrated toward the production of knowledge of the other. However, the book also argues against the view, espoused by certain critics, that the self-reflexivity of Orientalist writing fully counteracts its polarizing political effects, arguing instead for a process of "double reading" that acknowledges both the geopolitical power encoded within Orientalist representation and the ways in which specific texts resist this power.
Book Synopsis The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel by : Jennifer Yee
Download or read book The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel written by Jennifer Yee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The Colonial Comedy reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts. In what Edward Said called 'geographical notations' of race and imperialism the presence of the colonies off-stage is apparent as imported objects, colonial merchandise, and individuals whose colonial experience is transformative. Indeed, the realist novel registers the presence of the emerging global world-system through networks of importation, financial speculation, and immigration as well as direct colonial violence and power structures. The literature of the century responds to the last decades of French slavery, and direct colonialism (notably in Algeria), but also economic imperialism and the extension of French influence elsewhere. Far from imperialist triumphalism, in the realist novel exotic objects are portrayed as fake or mass-produced for the growing bourgeois market, while economic imperialism is associated with fraud and manipulation. The deliberate contrast of colonialism and exoticism within the metropolitan novel, and ironic distancing of colonial narratives, reveal the realist mode to be capable of questioning its own epistemological basis. The Colonial Comedy argues for the existence in the nineteenth century of a Critical Orientalism characterized by critique of its own discursive foundations. Using the tools of literary analysis within a materialist approach, The Colonial Comedy opens up the domestic Paris-Provinces axis to signifying chains pointing towards the colonial space.
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Book Synopsis The Gendered Lyric by : Gretchen Schultz
Download or read book The Gendered Lyric written by Gretchen Schultz and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gendered Lyric portrays gender as being central to the full appreciation of nineteenth-century French poetry. Schultz contends that both male and female poets of the major movements relied on sexual difference to define their poetic.
Download or read book Romanic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902 by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Review by : James Frederick Mason
Download or read book The French Review written by James Frederick Mason and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe in France by : Célestin Pierre Cambiaire
Download or read book The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe in France written by Célestin Pierre Cambiaire and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1927 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Glorious Perversity by : Brian M. Stableford
Download or read book Glorious Perversity written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.
Book Synopsis The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature by : Patricia García
Download or read book The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature written by Patricia García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here.
Book Synopsis Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) by : Judith Nowinski
Download or read book Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) written by Judith Nowinski and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a scholarly approach to bring Denon to life and to the attention of contemporary readers. To make his acquaintance is to recapture the aristocracy and the world of art and letters at the turn of the 19th century in several European capitals.
