Author: Louis-René de Caradeuc de La ChalotaisPublisher:
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Arrêt de la cour rendu sur les remontrance et conclusions de M. l'avocat général du roi, qui ordonne qu'une brochure qui porte pour titre : "Remarques sur un écrit intitulé : Compte-rendu des constitutions des jésuites par M. Louis-René de Caradeuc de la Chalotais,..." sera lacérée et brûlée... Du 27 avril 1762
Author: Louis-René de Caradeuc de La ChalotaisPublisher:
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Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Epic and Empire
Author: David QuintPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691222959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.
Infernal Legends
Author: Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de PlancyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780997074512
Category : Demonology
Languages : en
Pages : 765
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Boileau's Lutrin
Author: Nicolas Boileau DespréauxPublisher:
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Category : Mock-heroic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis
Author: ALEJANDRO COROLEUPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004226478
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1275
Book Description
Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2009, Uppsala in Sweden was the venue of the fourteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Uppsala conference have been collected in this volume under the motto Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere Reception and Innovation. Ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.
Petrarch's Africa
Author: Francesco PetrarcaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300020625
Category : Poetry in Latin, ca 750-1350 English texts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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