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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Documents concernant le film "l'Impossible mariage", ou la Mort avant le déshonneur, 1920
Author: Stendhal Or the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Matthew JosephsonPublisher: Jorge Pinto Books Inc.
ISBN: 0974261564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
On Stendhal: "The study of human nature, 'the observation of the human heart and its passions, ' was his constant preoccupation. But where could he study the passions better than in himself? Though he lived exuberantly, submitting himself to experience... he went on incessantly writing down everything that happened to him just as it happened. he even led to perform some remarkable experiments upon himself.He laid claim to having been a soldier, a man of fortune, a great lover, a society wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and even, sometimes, a revolutionary conspirator. "Fifty years after his death he becomes one of the demigods of the world's letters, taking his place in the ranks of the great social writers who appeared toward the end of the last century. his manner of life itself has fascinated whole regiments of literary scholars in France, Italy and Germany in the last forty years." -Matthew Josephson, From the Introduction (1946) "Like Josephson's Victor Hugo, it is the best and most comprehensive English study of its subject, a careful collection of material, skillfully assembled and organized...When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them 'a manifestation of psychological genius.' Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself."-TIME Magazine (1946)
Salvation at Stake
Author: Brad S. GregoryPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs."--BOOK JACKET.
For All the Saints
Author: Robert KolbPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532674953
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Martyrs have long played a vital role in Christian life, thought, theology, and piety. Robert Kolb, an acknowledged authority on the history of the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, offers a thorough and illuminating analysis of the way German Lutherans changed the perceptions of martyrdom and sainthood. Protestant reformers professed that providential power over daily human life was reserved for God alone, and that mediation with God is provided by Jesus Christ alone. Martyrs and saints could no longer be worshiped or act as intercessors. But this did not mean their absence from the faith and piety of sixteenth-century Protestants. Instead, holy people were regarded as those who confessed the word and in that confession demonstrated and advertised the power of God. This book arose in response to some vexing questions: Why is the first of a long and distinguished line of Protestant martyrologists, Ludwig Rabus, the least noted? Why would he, a German Lutheran, have composed a book of martyrs? Kolb suggests that the answers are complex—they involve differences in historical and political situations and in specific dogmatic emphases of each reformation. Kolb’s diligent research led him well beyond Rabus’s martyrbook. His work encompasses material from the writings and biographies of Luther and Melanchthon, Wittenberg chronicles and calendars, and hymns and songs. The analysis of this material makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the Lutheran Reformation and of the changing roles of saints and martyrs in the history of Christianity.
Stone Age Boy
Author: Satoshi KitamuraPublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
When a modern young boy is transported back in time to a Stone Age village, he learns all about a new way of life.
Parallel Lives
Author: Louise Fothergill-PaynePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751947
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In Parallel Lives, the contributors observe particular Spanish and English plays from the perspective of the numerous parallels and apparent similarities in the evolution of this art form in the two countries. Illustrated.
The Evolution Man
Author: Roy LewisPublisher: Corgi Books
ISBN: 9780552993463
Category : Glacial epoch
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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The Virgin Martyr
Author: Philip MassingerPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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The Prostituted Muse
Author: Jacqueline PearsonPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism
Author: Andrew MaunderPublisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816074174
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Part of the "Literary Movements" series, this title examines the people, events, and works that defined the literary Romantic era in Great Britain and Ireland from 1775 through the 1830s. An introductory essay summarizes the movement's origins and philosophy. This A-to-Z-format work provides brief biographies, plot summaries, and critical interpretations of both the popular, well-known Romantics and the many often-overlooked, lesser-known writers. Designed to "whet the reader's appetite" for further exploration of this fascinating period and to focus on how closely Romantic writers are connected to their contemporary world, the book offers signed essays on industrialism, the monarchy, the American and French Revolutions, childhood, slavery, and many other topics. Many articles offer suggestions for further reading. Comparing this title to Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, edited by C. J. Murray (CH, Jun'04, 41-5628), reveals that the newer volume includes more close analysis of individual works and features a larger number of lesser-known writers, particularly women. Rather than being a substitute, it is best used in conjunction with the Murray title. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by R. B. Meeker.