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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Canadiana
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Author: Tirocinium Gallicum. A short French grammar, ed. by J.D. Collis
Author: George Andrew JacobFrench Verbs, Regular and Irregular
Author: Charles P. Du CroquetPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Questionnaire
Author: James Henry WormanPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Realism’s Others
Author: Eva AldeaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443823465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the values of sameness against those of otherness, and that it does so by use of a narrative mode that excludes certain epistemologies, ideologies, and ways of thinking. However, the truth is more complex than that, as the essays in this volume all demonstrate. Realism’s Others examines the various strategies by which realist narratives create the idea of difference, whether that difference is registered in terms of class, ethnicity, epistemology, nationality, or gender. The authors in this collection examine in detail not just the fact of otherness in some canonical realist and canonical magical-realist and postmodern novels, but the actual means by which that otherness is established by the text. These essays suggest that neither realist narrative nor narratives positioned as anti-realist take otherness for granted; rather, the texts discussed here actively create difference, and this creation of difference often occasions severe difficulties for the novels’ representational schema. How does one represent different types of knowledge, other aesthetic modes or other spaces, for example, in texts whose epistemology has long been seen as secular and empirical, whose aesthetic mode has always been approached as pure descriptive mimesis, and whose settings are largely domestic? These essays all begin with a certain collision—of nationalities, of classes, of representational matrices, of religions—and go on to chart the challenges that this collision presents to our ideas or stereotypes of realism, or to the possibilities of writing against and beyond realism. This question motivates examination of key realist or social-realist texts, in some of these essays, by Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Franz Grillparzer, Theodor Storm, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Wilhelm Raabe, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, H. T. Tsiang, Alan Sillitoe, and Richard Yates. However, it is no less central a question in certain non-realist texts which engage realist aims to a surprising degree, often to debate them openly; some of these essays discuss, in this light, fantastic, magical realist, and postmodern works by Abram Tertz, Paul Auster, Alejo Carpentier, Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, and A. S. Byatt. Realism becomes more than an aesthetic aim or narrative mode. It becomes, rather, a value evoked and discussed by all of the works analyzed here, in order to reveal its impact on fiction’s treatment of ethnicity, nationality, ideology, space, gender, and social class.
A Dictionary of Difficulties; Or, Appendix to the French Grammar ...
Author: Pierre François MerletPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A New and Practical Dictionary of English and French Languages
Author: J. S. S. RothwellThe Spivak Reader
Author: Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415910019
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590
Author: Julia CartwrightPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Julia Cartwright's 'Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590' provides a meticulously researched account of the life of Christina of Denmark, a prominent figure in European history during the Renaissance period. Cartwright's writing style is both informative and engaging, offering readers a deep insight into the political and social dynamics of the time. Through detailed descriptions and analysis, Cartwright delves into the complex life of Christina, shedding light on her relationships with key figures such as Catherine de' Medici and Mary, Queen of Scots. The book also explores Christina's influence on the cultural and political landscape of the regions she governed. Cartwright's scholarly approach and attention to historical detail make this biography a valuable resource for anyone interested in Renaissance history and women's roles in politics. Julia Cartwright's expertise in Renaissance studies and her dedication to uncovering the life of Christina of Denmark make 'Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590' a must-read for history enthusiasts seeking a comprehensive and insightful account of a remarkable historical figure.