Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780810961814
Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Author : Harry Vincent Wann
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1920
Category : French language
ISBN :
Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528765311
This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.
Author : Frederic Bastiat
Publisher : Simon Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781931541022
This book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.
Author : James Patty
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813171938
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784783471
Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity . The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jameson discusses modernist poetics, including intensive discussions of the work of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Joyce, Proust, and Thomas Mann. He explores the peculiarties of the American literary field, taking in William Carlos Williams and the American epic, and examines the language theories of Gertrude Stein. Refusing to see modernism as simply a Western phenomenon he also pays close attention to its Japanese expression; while the complexities of a late modernist representation of twentieth-century politics are articulated in a concluding section on Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance. Challenging our previous understanding of the literature of this pperiod, this monumental work will come to be regarded as the classic study of modernism.
Author : Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781933959535
"With its undulating body, I, CAUSTIC reproduces the twopronged movement that testifies to the continuing relevance of Khaïr-Eddine's writing: destruction and reconstruction, annihilation and regeneration, death and revival."--Khalid Lyamlahy (from the Postface) "Khaïr-Eddine's corroded lyric I spews the detritus of autocratic narcissism in this absurdist takedown of its patriarchs: the king and his advisors, military and police officers, husbands, fathers, older brothers. In the wake of the Moroccan student and worker uprising of March 23, 1965, which emboldened both government repression and popular movements for democracy, the characters ponder the irony of revolution when everyone has coopted its rhetoric and wonder whether the socalled dregs of society--sexworkers, abandoned children, unemployed laborers--can rise up to prevent a nuclear Arab apocalypse. Yet from the King's privy in Rabat to a coastal town in southern Morocco, humanity's inhumanity is just one force of nature among so many others: what's the point of all this trouble when you'll end up a maggot-eaten corpse? Syersak's energizing translation delivers into English all the poet's acerbic humor and idiomatic exuberance. You'll laugh so hard your inner hyena will come out. Is your blood boiling yet?"--Teresa VillaIgnacio "Khaïr-Eddine's excoriating satire of independent Morocco, written in the first decade of Hassan II's rule, from the remove of voluntary exile in France, performs a devastating critique of the violence of the ruling class, the incompetence of government, the hypocrisy of organized religion, and the stubborn presence of police brutality, even as it fashions radically new modes of literary and poetic expression. Sometimes crude, even grotesque, often brilliantly seductive, irreligious, and funny, Jake Syersak's bold translation into English breathes new life into this important and toolong neglected work of modern Moroccan literature."--Thomas C. Connolly, Department of French, Yale University Poetry. Hybrid. Middle Eastern Studies.
Author : Ezra Pound
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781505374469
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) was an American poet and harsh critic following World War I. Pound was also a key contributor to the Modernist movement. One of Pound's most famous works is Instigations which is a series of essays critiquing a variety of writers and books.
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2024-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Step into the tumultuous world of the French Revolution with Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo. This historical novel captures the intense struggle between the ideals of liberty and the brutal realities of war, offering readers a vivid portrayal of a nation in chaos. As Hugo weaves his intricate narrative, a provocative question arises: Can humanity truly thrive amidst the horrors of conflict, or does the essence of compassion fade in the face of violence?Set against the backdrop of 1793, the story follows a cast of compelling characters, including a nobleman torn between duty and love, and a revolutionary who grapples with the moral implications of his actions. Hugo's powerful prose delves into themes of sacrifice, loyalty, and the enduring quest for justice. Are you ready to confront the moral dilemmas that arise in times of upheaval? Ninety-Three challenges you to reflect on the costs of revolution and the sacrifices made for the greater good.This masterpiece not only illuminates a pivotal moment in history but also resonates with contemporary issues of justice and human rights. Hugo’s impassioned narrative compels readers to consider the true meaning of freedom and the complexities of societal change. Don’t miss your chance to immerse yourself in this compelling exploration of revolutionary fervor. Purchase Ninety-Three now and discover the profound insights that await within its pages!
Author : Frantz Fanon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Black race
ISBN : 9780745399546
Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology of racism using scientific analysis and poetic grace.Franz Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, his writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation.With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.
