Book Description
One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141961058
One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140441263
One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his impressions of France
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1892
Category : French fiction
ISBN :
Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1824
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Robin Howells
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004650261
This is a reading of the Romans et Contes of Voltaire in the light of Bakhtin's concept of the Carnivalesque. Part I of this study establishes a paradigm for the twenty-six Contes. It focuses on generic patterns and a thematics of disablement. Part II offers carnivalesque readings of two tales, Le Monde comme il va and Candide. The last Part considers successively six of the later Contes, including L'Ingénu and Jenni, and the historical changes in consciousness that they reflect. The shift towards bourgeois realism is evident in the rise of sentiment and the patriarchal family on the one hand, materialism on the other. These tales exhibit an increasingly deep ambivalence towards corporality. In conclusion the study traces the changing forms of the carnivalesque figure, from geometrical to vitalist, within the Contes as a whole.
Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405171995
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.
Author : Dany Nobus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 100055242X
The highly arcane "wisdom" produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable nonsense by his equally countless detractors. Contrary to these common, strictly antagonistic yet uniformly uncritical practices, this book offers a meticulous critique of some key theoretical and clinical aspects of Lacan’s expansive oeuvre, testing their consistency, examining their implications, and investigating their significance. In nine interrelated chapters, the book highlights both the flaws and the strengths of Lacan’s ideas, in areas of investigation that are as crucial as they are contentious, within as well as outside psychoanalysis. Drawing on a vast range of source materials, including many unpublished archival documents, it teases out controversial issues such as money, organisational failure, and lighthearted, "gay" thinking, and it relies on the highest standards of scholarly excellence to develop its arguments. At the same time, the book does not presuppose any prior knowledge of Lacanian psychoanalysis on the part of the reader, but allows its readership to indulge in the joys of in-depth critical analysis, trans-disciplinary creative thinking, and persistent questioning. This book will appeal to researchers and students alike in psychoanalytic studies and philosophy, as well as all those interested in French theory and the history of ideas.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : Forrest Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674076471
It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".