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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738182879
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Ervin Malakaj
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110570971
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.

Author: Alistair Cole
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719071508
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This text investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. It draws on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data.

Author: Comitetul Național pentru Literatură Comparată
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Michael Greenstein
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773506756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Analyzes the works of Jewish-Canadian writers, their relation to the past, and their place in Canadian society. Ch. 2 (p. 35-52), "Canadian Poetry after Auschwitz: Layton, Cohen, Mandel, " deals with these poets and the treatment of the Holocaust in their poetry.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004657827
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Michael Clark
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317909054
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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This bibliography in two volumes, originally published in 1988, lists and describes works by and about Jacques Lacan published in French, English, and seven other languages including Japanese and Russian. It incorporates and corrects where necessary all information from earlier published bibliographies of Lacan’s work. Also included as background works are books and essays that discuss Lacan in the course of a more general study, as well as all relevant items in various bibliographic sources from many fields.

Author: Oliver Davis
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042020261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir's great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse, and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE. Questioning Beauvoir's own rather reductive reading of Gide's work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc's autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Hervé Guibert's recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise, is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury ('age rage') and serene acceptance ('going gently'), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject.

Author: Robert Gildea
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300067118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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This fascinating book examines how the past pervades French public life, how the French both commemorate their past triumphs, heroes, and martyrs and attempt to erase the more violent events in their history. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries have manufactured different versions of the past in order to define their identities and legitimate their goals. Beginning with a discussion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, Robert Gildea moves backward in time to show how rival factions have used various elements of French political culture--from the grandeur of the ancien r�gime to Catholicism, Jacobinism, Anarchism, and Bonapartism--to further their ends. Gildea shows how proponents of revolution and counterrevolution, church and state, centralism and regionalism, and national identity and nationalism campaigned to achieve the widest possible acceptance of their own view of the past. He describes the continuing battle between Left and Right for association with national heroes such as Joan of Arc and Napoleon. He exposes the reworking of collective views of the past by political communities, in order to increase or recover political legitimacy. Written in clear and trenchant prose, the book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture.

Author: Ronald Ernest Batchelor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645935
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This is an extensively revised and substantially enlarged 2000 edition of the acclaimed Using French.