Author: Elizabeth Rose RileyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
La Voix Qui Sort de L'ombre ...
Author: Elizabeth Rose RileyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama
Author: Albert W. HalsallPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802043221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot summary, and detailed analysis of all the dramas, from Cromwel and Torquemada to the juvenilia and the epic melodrama Les Burgraves.
Capital Letters
Author: Ève MorisiPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810141531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Capital Letters sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society’s most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus. Working at the intersection of poetics, ethics, and law, Ève Morisi uncovers an unexpected transhistorical dialogue on both the modern death penalty and the ends and means of literature after the French Revolution. Through close textual analysis, careful contextualization, and the critique of violence forged by Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and René Girard, Morisi reveals that, despite their differences, Hugo, Baudelaire, and Camus converged in questioning France’s humanitarian redefinition of capital punishment dating from the late eighteenth century. Conversely, capital justice led all three writers to interrogate the functions, tools, and limits of their art. Capital Letters shows that the key modern debate on the political and moral responsibility, or autonomy, of literature crystallizes around the death penalty in works whose form disturbs the commonly accepted divide between aestheticism and engagement.
Aller(s)-Retour(s)
Author: Loïc GuyonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443857564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous period in French history bore witness to the rise and fall of countless political movements, from revolutions and “coups d’état”, to popular protests and the first workers’ strikes. It was an age of economic movements as France embraced the new world of finance and banking, and underwent its own industrial revolution. Social mobility increased as a dynamic commercial bourgeoisie began to challenge the system of aristocratic privilege that neither the 1789 Revolution nor the Napoleonic Empire had dismantled entirely. The era was one of artistic ferment, as Romanticism gave way to Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism, and Symbolism. Intellectual and philosophical movements, from Liberalism to Saint-Simonianism, sought both to reconcile the country with its past and construct the framework for a progressive, more harmonious future. Through seventeen thematic essays, Aller(s)-Retour(s) seeks to understand nineteenth-century France as a society in perpetual motion. Recognising the instability that is key to the very concept of movement, this volume explores how the intellectual shifts and cross-currents of the nineteenth century responded to, and impacted upon, each other. Finally, it asks why questions of motion and movement dominated this period, as every sphere of French life confronted its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.
Michel Butor
Author: Barbara MasonPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780729300780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Oeuvres & Critiques
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Author: Publisher: By Label AA-Prod/Edits (Artmusiclitte) 2015
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Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
“The” Fortnightly Review
Author: Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.
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