Author: Henry Strutz
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780764103452
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
More than 4,000 words and their popular meanings that you won't find in standard French-English dictionaries.
Dictionary of French Slang and Colloquial Expressions
Author: Henry Strutz
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780764103452
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
More than 4,000 words and their popular meanings that you won't find in standard French-English dictionaries.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780764103452
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
More than 4,000 words and their popular meanings that you won't find in standard French-English dictionaries.
Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Author: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Vol. 11, pt. 1, "Centennial volume," includes full list of officers and members of the academy, 1780-1881.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Vol. 11, pt. 1, "Centennial volume," includes full list of officers and members of the academy, 1780-1881.
The Classic French Reader
Author: Alain de Fivas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375168608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375168608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Eugene Onegin
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties, and nothing more. Upon the death of a wealthy uncle, he inherits a substantial fortune and a landed estate. When he moves to the country, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky. Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancée, the sociable but rather thoughtless Olga Larina. At this meeting, he also catches a glimpse of Olga's sister Tatyana. A quiet, precocious romantic, Tatyana becomes intensely drawn to Onegin, but he doesn't respond. Lensky mischievously invites Onegin to Tatyana's name day celebration, and upon arrival, Onegin is irritated with the guests who gossip about him and Tatyana. He decides to avenge himself by dancing and flirting with Olga. Earnest and inexperienced, Lensky is wounded to the core and challenges Onegin to fight a duel, and Onegin reluctantly accepts. During the duel, Onegin unwillingly kills Lensky. Afterwards, he quits his country estate, traveling abroad to deaden his feelings of remorse. Eugene Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties, and nothing more. Upon the death of a wealthy uncle, he inherits a substantial fortune and a landed estate. When he moves to the country, he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky. Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancée, the sociable but rather thoughtless Olga Larina. At this meeting, he also catches a glimpse of Olga's sister Tatyana. A quiet, precocious romantic, Tatyana becomes intensely drawn to Onegin, but he doesn't respond. Lensky mischievously invites Onegin to Tatyana's name day celebration, and upon arrival, Onegin is irritated with the guests who gossip about him and Tatyana. He decides to avenge himself by dancing and flirting with Olga. Earnest and inexperienced, Lensky is wounded to the core and challenges Onegin to fight a duel, and Onegin reluctantly accepts. During the duel, Onegin unwillingly kills Lensky. Afterwards, he quits his country estate, traveling abroad to deaden his feelings of remorse. Eugene Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes
Modern Language Notes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
A New and Complete French and English and English and French Dictionary, on the Basis of the Royal Dictionary ... by Professor Fleming [and] Professor Tibbins
The Plays of Molière in French
A Manual of French Literature
Author: Richard Adolf Ploetz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Chaucer Society
Voltaire comic dramatist
Author: Russell Goulbourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No two comedies of Voltaire are alike: the breadth and diversity of his comic dramaturgy in terms of form, technique, theme, characterisation and tone, are revealed in this first critical analysis and systematic reassessment of Voltaire's eighteen comedies in their contemporary theatrical, literary and intellectual contexts. This study also exposes the fundamental unity of Voltaire's comic theatre, which lies in the plays' status as innovative, experimental works written in creative dialogue with, and fruitful opposition to, the contemporary trend towards serious, sentimental comedy. Voltaire wrote his comedies over more than forty years (1725-1769), when comedy was undergoing significant redefinition as a genre. Typically dismissed as un-dramatic, sentimental, overtly didactic and so of limited interest today, his comedies emerge from this study as a series of vigorous explorations in the many possibilities of the comic genre. Voltaire wrote with the example of Molière and the seventeenth-century comic tradition constantly in mind, but at the same time he diverged from that tradition in pioneering ways, constantly testing the limits of generic convention and audience expectation. In demonstrating the blend of tradition and innovation at the heart of Voltaire's aesthetics of comic drama, this book contributes to a remapping of the history of eighteenth-century French comedy. It also leads to a new understanding of Voltaire's comic aesthetics more broadly: his comedies are a substantial, complex and vital part of his literary career, and studying them helps us to revise our view of the author of satirical contes, the dry wit whose distinctive literary mode can appear to be destructive irony. Viewed in the light of his comic theatre, the familiar Voltaire wears a significantly different expression.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
No two comedies of Voltaire are alike: the breadth and diversity of his comic dramaturgy in terms of form, technique, theme, characterisation and tone, are revealed in this first critical analysis and systematic reassessment of Voltaire's eighteen comedies in their contemporary theatrical, literary and intellectual contexts. This study also exposes the fundamental unity of Voltaire's comic theatre, which lies in the plays' status as innovative, experimental works written in creative dialogue with, and fruitful opposition to, the contemporary trend towards serious, sentimental comedy. Voltaire wrote his comedies over more than forty years (1725-1769), when comedy was undergoing significant redefinition as a genre. Typically dismissed as un-dramatic, sentimental, overtly didactic and so of limited interest today, his comedies emerge from this study as a series of vigorous explorations in the many possibilities of the comic genre. Voltaire wrote with the example of Molière and the seventeenth-century comic tradition constantly in mind, but at the same time he diverged from that tradition in pioneering ways, constantly testing the limits of generic convention and audience expectation. In demonstrating the blend of tradition and innovation at the heart of Voltaire's aesthetics of comic drama, this book contributes to a remapping of the history of eighteenth-century French comedy. It also leads to a new understanding of Voltaire's comic aesthetics more broadly: his comedies are a substantial, complex and vital part of his literary career, and studying them helps us to revise our view of the author of satirical contes, the dry wit whose distinctive literary mode can appear to be destructive irony. Viewed in the light of his comic theatre, the familiar Voltaire wears a significantly different expression.