Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Second French Reader
Author: Eugene GotyePublisher: Audiolego
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A private detective is following the girl he is in love with. A former air force pilot, he is discovering some sides in the human nature he can't deal with. The book makes use of the ALARM Method to efficiently teach its reader French words, sentences and dialogues. Through this method, a person will be able to enhance his or her ability to remember the words that has been incorporated into consequent sentences from time to time. The book is equipped with the audio tracks. The address of the home page of the book on the Internet, where audio files are available for listening and downloading, is listed at the beginning of the book on the copyright page.
The Demon in Democracy
Author: Ryszard LegutkoPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594039925
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution
Author: R. R. PalmerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691161283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. Featuring a new foreword by David Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring work of political history.
Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800, Volume 1
Author: R. R. PalmerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.
Un Dernier Reve
Author: W. E. GutmanPublisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1771430370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Dans sa nouvelle et inquiétante dystopie, W.E. Gutman traverse les régions cauchemaresques de la folie. Écrit pour l'écran ou le théâtre, UN DERNIER RÊVE pose des questions angoissantes : Les songes que nous tissons, les idées que nous enfantons, nos fantasmes et nos chimères -- pourraient-ils un jour nous trahir? L'inégalité, l'incompatibilité des rêves, l'antagonisme qu'ils suscitent, seraient-ils à l'origine de tout conflit humain? Les rêveurs, seront-ils guettés, pistés par une imminente police du rêve et réduits au silence? Peut-on transformer les insoumis en abrutis serviles? Dans U.
The Living Age
Author: Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim LittellTheatre in Balzac's La Comedie humaine
Author: Linzy Erika DickinsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004490655
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is the first study of Balzac's work to examine theatre in La Comédie humaine both as a theme in itself and for its influence on Balzac's techniques and modes of presentation in his novels, and to demonstrate the symbiotic influence of novel and stage on Balzac's work as a playwright and novelist. It will be of interest not only to students of Balzac, but also to students of nineteenth-century theatre and history. The introduction gives an account of Balzac's experience of the theatre; the first three chapters examine the historicity of Balzac's portrayal of the theatre world and how this portrayal serves his wider narrative purpose; the two following chapters demonstrate how and why Balzac relies on the theatre to provide a rich tissue of metaphor and bank of expressive devices with which to communicate his critique of society; finally the work shows how Balzac succeeded in bringing to the stage the same scrutiny of the capitalist ethos which underpins La Comédie humaine. An index of references to playwrights, plays, actors and stage characters in La Comédie humaine is given in an appendix.
Cixous's Semi-Fictions
Author: Mairead HanrahanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748696644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Hélène Cixous, author of over forty works of fiction, was deemed by Derrida to be the greatest living writer in French in 1990. Consistent with this evaluation, her writing is renowned for its dense poetical texture and lyricism. At the same time, she has been described by one of Derrida's translators, Peggy Kamuf, as 'one of our age's greatest semi-theoreticians'. Connecting these views, Hanrahan argues for a consideration of her texts as 'semi-fictions'. She offers an in-depth reading of five different texts, addressing their idiomatic specificity and investigating how the textual fabric unfolds.