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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Art and Auctions
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: French books in print, anglais
Author: ElectrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
Book Description
Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
Author: Louis NicolasPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538763
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.
Bibliographie D'histoire de L'art
Author: Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane FenoulhetPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Monsieur Proust
Author: Céleste AlbaretPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion.
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Author: M. WolfePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Author: Giovanna BorradoriPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226066657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.
Roman Tales
Author: Alberto MoraviaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192821720
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
19 short stories set in the poorer parts and slums of Rome and whose heros are the ordinary people - plumbers, washerwomen, thieves, small shopkeepers and prostitutes. newspapers in London and Paris. He now lives in Rome and is a well-established writer.