Author: Lynn GarafolaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance
Author: Lynn GarafolaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
The Paris Opéra Ballet
Author: Ivor GuestPublisher: Dance Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669.
Oedipus at Thebes
Author: Bernard KnoxPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300074239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"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...
A History of Turin
Author: Anthony L. CardozaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788806181246
Category : History
Languages : it
Pages : 281
Book Description
Inventing the Louvre
Author: Andrew McClellanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520221765
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A narrative history of the founding of the Louvre that also explores the ideological underpinnings, pedagogical aims, and aesthetic criteria of this, the first great national art museum.
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Queenship in Europe 1660-1815
Author: Clarissa Campbell OrrPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521814225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Author: Dina SherzerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292777033
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation’s past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic contemporary France, and cinematic discourses which have been and are being produced about France’s colonial past, these authors explore how the images relay underlying assumptions and their relation to historical and political facts. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform these studies, which cover the entire range of films on that topic. The authors expound upon the role French and Francophone films are currently playing in reconstructing and imagining France’s colonial past. Not only do the essays examine how French cinema has represented the encounter of French citizens with individuals from former colonies during the colonial era; they examine how French cinema has portrayed and has come to terms with the cohabitation of former colonial subjects with the French in France. In addition, the book features another postcolonial facet by analyzing films of directors from the former colonies who give their own representation of colonialism and presentation of their culture. This study is a major contribution to postcolonial research. Race, gender, and geography are central themes throughout this book that presents innovative material that contributes to the history of French cinema and emphasizes how cinema participates in and is a part of national culture.
Prince of Europe
Author: Philip ManselPublisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.