My Fantoms

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017271X
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis My Fantoms by : Theophile Gautier

Download or read book My Fantoms written by Theophile Gautier and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, has found a brilliantly effective new way to bring this great bu too-little-known writer into English. My Fantoms assembles seven stories spanning the whole of Gautier’s career into a unified work that captures the essence of his adventurous life and subtle art. From the erotic awakening of “The Adolescent” through “The Poet,” a piercing recollection of the mad genius Gérard de Nerval, the great friend of Gautier’s youth, My Fantoms celebrates the senses and illuminates the strange disguises of the spirit, while taking readers on a tour of modernity at its most mysterious. ”What ever would the Devil find to do in Paris?” Gautier wonders. “He would meet people just as diabolical as he, and find himself taken for some naïve provincial…” Tapestries, statues, and corpses come to life; young men dream their way into ruin; and Gautier keeps his faith in the power of imagination: “No one is truly dead, until they are no longer loved.”

The English Catalogue of Books [annual]

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Book Synopsis The English Catalogue of Books [annual] by : Sampson Low

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The English Catalogue of Books

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Total Pages : 1450 pages
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Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

The Romance of the Mummy :

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Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis The Romance of the Mummy : by : Théophile Gautier

Download or read book The Romance of the Mummy : written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of books in the general library and in the South library

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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555456
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Book Synopsis Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum by : Giles Whiteley

Download or read book Oscar Wilde and the Simulacrum written by Giles Whiteley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.

Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107082595
Total Pages : 347 pages
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Download or read book Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity written by Clara Tuite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

The Works of Théophile Gautier ...: The quartette. The mummy's foot

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Total Pages : 400 pages
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The Art Criticism of Theophile Gautier

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Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600034982
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Book Synopsis The Art Criticism of Theophile Gautier by : Michael Clifford Spencer

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Book of the Sphinx

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803205260
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Book Synopsis Book of the Sphinx by : Willis Goth Regier

Download or read book Book of the Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.

Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957104
Total Pages : 314 pages
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The Impact of Art on French Literature

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874132496
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis The Impact of Art on French Literature by : Helen Osterman Borowitz

Download or read book The Impact of Art on French Literature written by Helen Osterman Borowitz and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a direct line of tradition that unites the French precieux novel, Romantic and Symbolist literature, and Proust's novel cycle.

Hashish, Wine, Opium

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Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714548367
Total Pages : 87 pages
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First Editions of the Works of Esteemed Authors of the XIXth and XXth Centuries

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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Book Synopsis First Editions of the Works of Esteemed Authors of the XIXth and XXth Centuries by : Maggs Bros

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A Study in Terror: Volume 2

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780926677
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book A Study in Terror: Volume 2 written by Derrick Belanger and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of those authors whose literary creation is much more famous than the man himself. Those who do know the name Arthur Conan Doyle tend to know him only as the inventor of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. A smaller segment of this group goes further and remembers Doyle as the inventor of the great detective who squandered his fame with crackpot beliefs in faeries and the supernatural. Sadly, there is so much more to the man who revolutionized the writing not just of detective fiction but also of the genre of horror, the supernatural, and even influenced history itself. This two volume anthology's point is to put Doyle back on the pedestal he so rightly deserves. Its aim is twofold. First, to introduce readers to Doyle's lesser known (yet no less important) works. These works speak for themselves in showing a master writer at his craft. The stories are timeless, enjoyable, and hopefully will lead to new fans embracing a great author's somewhat forgotten tales. The second aim is to show the relevance of Doyle's works. Through a collection of articles written by current scholars and experts, readers can see just how revolutionary Doyle's writings remain even today.

The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated

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Total Pages : 1022 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828444
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture by : Francis O'Gorman

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.