Author: Arvède BarinePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Bernardin de St. Pierre
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Author: The Indian Cottage
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Tolerance
Author: Caroline WarmanPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783742038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
The Vocabulary of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Its Relation to the French Romantic School
Author: John Nottingham WarePublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Author: Malcolm CookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Bernardin de St Pierre (1737-1814) was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment. In this first full-length critical biography of the author in English, Malcolm Cook seeks to understand the importance of Bernardin's major works. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscript material, he provides a fresh account of the writer's significance and status in a period of French history which, during Bernardin's lifetime, saw the transition from monarchy to republic and empire. The book is both a critical account of a major author and a source of new insights into the cultural revolution taking place around him.
Bernardin de St. Pierre
Author: Arvède BarinePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Saint-Pierre was no ordinary person, either as man or author. His was a strong and original character, more bent on action than on literature. Though a master of style and a great painter in words, he was ever a preacher, a sermonneur, as Sainte-Beuve calls him. His masterpiece—as the French reckon "Paul and Virginia" to be—came by chance, and is but a chapter in a huge treatise, a parable told by the way in a voluminous gospel. It is as if Ruskin's chef d'œuvre were a novelette, or as if Carlyle's story had been a perfect whole, instead of a fragment and a failure." This book written by Arvède Barine is a biography of the famous French writer Bernardin de Saint Pierre.
The Unfinished Enlightenment
Author: Joanna StalnakerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801462347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration—rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields—has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century.
Exotic Nations
Author: Renata WassermanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726056
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World’s interpretation of its own history and natural environment.
Paul and Virginie
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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