Author: Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226468445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.
Zayde
Author: Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226468445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226468445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.
Tender Geographies
Author: Joan DeJean
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Tender Geographies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231513630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Tender Geographies
Tea with Grandpa
Author: Barney Saltzberg
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1466865377
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Spending time with Grandpa is always fun. Singling, laughing, eating, and playing. And when it's time to say goodbye, It won't be for long because He's never too far away to have tea. In this sweetly simple, rhyming picture book by acclaimed author/artist Barney Saltzberg, a little girl tells us about her daily tea ritual with her grandfather where they sing and laugh and clink their teacups with the help of their computers and a video chat. A Neal Porter Book
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1466865377
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Spending time with Grandpa is always fun. Singling, laughing, eating, and playing. And when it's time to say goodbye, It won't be for long because He's never too far away to have tea. In this sweetly simple, rhyming picture book by acclaimed author/artist Barney Saltzberg, a little girl tells us about her daily tea ritual with her grandfather where they sing and laugh and clink their teacups with the help of their computers and a video chat. A Neal Porter Book
Mapping the Middle East
Author: Zayde Antrim
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state—not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region’s future. Organized chronologically, Mapping the Middle East addresses the medieval “Realm of Islam;” the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim’s analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Mapping the Middle East explores the many ways people have visualized the vast area lying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Oxus and Indus River Valleys over the past millennium. By analyzing maps produced from the eleventh century on, Zayde Antrim emphasizes the deep roots of mapping in a region too often considered unexamined and unchanging before the modern period. As Antrim argues, better-known maps from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—a period coinciding with European colonialism and the rise of the nation-state—not only obscure this rich past, but also constrain visions for the region’s future. Organized chronologically, Mapping the Middle East addresses the medieval “Realm of Islam;” the sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire; French and British colonialism through World War I; nationalism in modern Turkey, Iran, and Israel/Palestine; and alternative geographies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Vivid color illustrations throughout allow readers to compare the maps themselves with Antrim’s analysis. Much more than a conventional history of cartography, Mapping the Middle East is an incisive critique of the changing relationship between maps and belonging in a dynamic world region over the past thousand years.
The Place of Exile
Author: Juliette Cherbuliez
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Four case studies of everyday, sociable writing called leisure literature guide us through an ever-widening territory of disaffection and alienation, from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756034
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
At once political institution, lived experience, and discursive figure, exile defined Louis XIV's absolutist France. The Place of Exile connects the movements of both people and books through and around this absolutist territory in order to understand the deliberate construction of real and imagined marginal cultures. Four case studies of everyday, sociable writing called leisure literature guide us through an ever-widening territory of disaffection and alienation, from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees.
Breaking Point (Midnight Falls 4)
Author: Lynn Hagen
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646378490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Shape-shifters, Suspense, MM, HEA] When a handsome guy walks into the vet office where Zayde works as a vet tech, he’s floored at just how gorgeous the stranger is. Then Denali Davis asks him out on a date and Zayde is thrilled. Their first date is simply perfect, until Zayde finds out that Denali isn’t even human. How did he find out? Denali flat-out shows him. From the moment they met Deputy Denali Davis knows Zayde is his mate. He brings his cat to the clinic when Chloe isn’t acting herself, and now he has a date with Zayde. Denali is excited because Zayde is such a stunning man. Only, a soul-sucking demon is determined to ruin those plans. Worse, the demon’s brother is gunning for Denali, sending him into a world of pain. When not even the demon warrior Phoenix can heal him, Denali knows he’s in trouble. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646378490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Shape-shifters, Suspense, MM, HEA] When a handsome guy walks into the vet office where Zayde works as a vet tech, he’s floored at just how gorgeous the stranger is. Then Denali Davis asks him out on a date and Zayde is thrilled. Their first date is simply perfect, until Zayde finds out that Denali isn’t even human. How did he find out? Denali flat-out shows him. From the moment they met Deputy Denali Davis knows Zayde is his mate. He brings his cat to the clinic when Chloe isn’t acting herself, and now he has a date with Zayde. Denali is excited because Zayde is such a stunning man. Only, a soul-sucking demon is determined to ruin those plans. Worse, the demon’s brother is gunning for Denali, sending him into a world of pain. When not even the demon warrior Phoenix can heal him, Denali knows he’s in trouble. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
Routes and Realms
Author: Zayde Antrim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019022715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019022715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.
Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France
Author: Ann T. Delehanty
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000825264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple voices and its fascination with conflicting vantage points. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France appeals to literary scholars and intellectual historians of the early modern period in Europe, as well as to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying the early novel, intellectual history, and philosophy of literature.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000825264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple voices and its fascination with conflicting vantage points. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France appeals to literary scholars and intellectual historians of the early modern period in Europe, as well as to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying the early novel, intellectual history, and philosophy of literature.
Helvington
A Select Collection of Novels and Histories
Author: Samuel Croxall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description