Les Nuits De Paris Or The Nocturnal Spectator
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Les Nuits De Paris Or The Nocturnal Spectator
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Author : Restif de La Bretonne
language : en
Publisher: New York : Random House
Release Date : 1964
Les Nuits De Paris Or The Nocturnal Spectator written by Restif de La Bretonne and has been published by New York : Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with France categories.
Les Nuits De Paris Or The Nocturnal Spectator
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Author : Restif de La Bretonne
language : en
Publisher: New York : Random House
Release Date : 1964
Les Nuits De Paris Or The Nocturnal Spectator written by Restif de La Bretonne and has been published by New York : Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with France categories.
The Narratology Of Observation
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Author : Martin Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-11-05
The Narratology Of Observation written by Martin Wagner and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.
Tales Of Two Cities
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Author : Jonathan Conlin
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2014-09-16
Tales Of Two Cities written by Jonathan Conlin and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Architecture categories.
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By borrowing, imitating and learning from each other Paris and London invented the true metropolis. Tales of Two Cities examines and compares five urban spaces—the pleasure garden, the cemetery, the apartment, the restaurant and the music hall—that defined urban modernity in the nineteenth century. The citizens of Paris and London first created these essential features of the modern cityscape and so defined urban living for all of us.
Tortured Subjects
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Author : Lisa Silverman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Tortured Subjects written by Lisa Silverman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with History categories.
At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In Tortured Subjects, Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period. Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of interrogations conducted under torture, as well as the writings of physicians and surgeons concerned with the problem of pain, records of religious confraternities, diaries and letters of witnesses to public executions, and the writings of torture's abolitionists and apologists. She contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence. As the philosophical consensus on which torture rested broke down, and definitions of truth and pain shifted, so too did the foundation of torture, until by the eighteenth century, it became an indefensible practice.
Italian Cinema And Modern European Literatures
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Author : Carlo Testa
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-03-30
Italian Cinema And Modern European Literatures written by Carlo Testa and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-30 with Social Science categories.
The history of cinema, and notably that of post-war Italian cinema, can only be understood adequately in the context of other contiguous cultural disciplines. World literature, including that of France, Germany, and Russia, played a key role in the development of post-war Italian film and the cinematic technique it has come to embody. Moving away from the usual modes of defining this period—a trajectory that begins with neorealism and ends with Bertolucci—author Carlo Testa offers proof that coming to terms with literary texts is an essential step toward understanding the motion pictures they influenced. The means of recreating literature for the screen has changed drastically over the last half-century, as has the impact of different national traditions on Italian cinema. Testa's work is the first to explicitly and deliberately link postwar Italian cinema to general intellectual concerns such as the relationship between literary authors and cinematic auteurs. Moreover, his analysis of the impact of French, German, and Russian cultures on Italy brings forth a new reading of Italian cinema, a new paradigm for exploring complex issues of authorship, culture, and art.
The Spectator And The City In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Author : Dana Brand
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991-10-25
The Spectator And The City In Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Dana Brand and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.
Futures Ruins
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Author : Nina L. Dubin
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2010
Futures Ruins written by Nina L. Dubin and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
In this timely and provocative study, Hubert Robert's paintings of urban ruins are interpreted as manifestations of a new consciousness of time, one shaped by the uncertainties of an economy characterized by the dread-inducing expansion of credit, frenzied speculation on the stock exchange, and bold ventures in real estate. As the favored artist of an enterprising Parisian elite, Robert is a prophetic case study of the intersections between aesthetics and modernity's dawning business culture. At the center of this lively narrative lie Robert's depictions of the ruins of Paris--macabre and spectacular paintings of fires and demolitions created on the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast range of materials, Futures & Ruins understands these artworks as harbingers of a modern appetite for destruction. The paintings are examined as expressions of the pleasures and perils of a risk economy. This captivating account--lavishly illustrated with rarely reproduced objects--recovers the critical significance of the eighteenth-century cult of ruins and of Robert's art for our times.
Game Of Patience
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Author : Susanne Alleyn
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Game Of Patience written by Susanne Alleyn and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Fiction categories.
Paris, 1796. Aristide Ravel, freelance undercover police investigator, is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment. The victims are Célie Montereau, daughter of a very wealthy family, and the man who was blackmailing her. Célie's enigmatic and bitter friend Rosalie points Aristide towards Philippe Aubry, a young man with a violent past who had been desperately in love with Célie. But the evidence says otherwise and, despite his reluctant falling for Rosalie, Aristide suspects she knows far more than she will say. When the evidence starts to point to Rosalie herself, Aristide knows he must find out who Rosalie is protecting and why, before he can get justice for Célie and save Rosalie from the guillotine. From Paris's gritty back alleys to its glittering salons, through the heart of feverish, decadent post-revolutionary France, Aristide is led into a puzzle of hidden secrets, crimes of passion, and long-nurtured hatreds. The prequel to A Treasury of Regrets.
An American Voltaire
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Author : E. Joe Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-30
An American Voltaire written by E. Joe Johnson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies. Essay titles include: “A New Genre: l’Opéra moral / Moral Opera in Eighteenth-Century France,” “Voltaire and the Uses of Censorship: The Example of the Lettres Philosophiques,” “Enlightenment Intertextuality: The Case of Heraldry in the Encyclopédie méthodique,” “Sex as Satire in Voltaire's Fiction,” “Violence, Levity, and the Dictionary in Old Regime France: Chaudon’s Dictionnaire anti-philosophique,” “L’abbé, l’amazone, le bon roi et les frelons,” “Greuze’s Self-Portraits: Figures of Artistic Identity,” “From Forest to Field: Sylvan Elegists of Eighteenth-Century France,” “The Falsification of Voltaire's Letters and the Public Persona of the Author: From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776),” “The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765),” “John Law and the Rhetoric of Calculation,” “‘Le Roi des Bulgares’: Was Voltaire's Satire on Frederick the Great just too Opaque?” “Voltaire and the Voyage to Rome,” “Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote,” “Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire,” “Sentimental Horror: Enlightenment Tragedy and the Rise of the Genre Terrible,” “Voltaire and the Comic Genre: Polemics and Rhetoric.”