Download or read book A Discovery of the Island Frivola Or the Frivolous Island Translated from the French Wrote by Order of A l A n Anson Second Edition A Satire written by and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discovery of the Island Frivola Or the Frivolous Island Translated from the French Wrote by Order of A l A n written by abbé Coyer (Gabriel François) and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Imaginary Places written by Alberto Manguel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and visualizes over 1,200 magical lands found in literature and film, discussing such exotic realms as Atlantis, Tolkien's Middle Earth, and Oz.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La D couverte de l le Frivole by Gabriel Fran ois Coyer written by Jean-Alexandre Perras and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) se présente comme un épisode inédit du Voyage autour du monde de l’amiral anglais George Anson et de son équipage. Le texte décrit leurs aventures sur une île étrange, dont les habitants, nommés Frivolites, sont tout entiers occupés de modes, de coiffures, de romans et de desserts historiés. Cette parodie chatoyante présente un tableau sévère mais enjoué de la France des premières années du siècle de Louis XV. Elle résonne avec les pages les plus critiques de Jean-Jacques Rousseau contre le luxe et la mollesse du siècle, ou celles, ironiques, que Voltaire fit paraître contre ses compatriotes. Elle n’épargne pas non plus les Anglais, alors que l’anglomanie bat son plein. Ce volume constitue la première édition critique bilingue d’un texte qui a fait en son temps beaucoup de bruit, tant en France qu’en Angleterre. La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) is presented as a supplement to George Anson’s Voyage Round the World, and recounts the adventures of the English admiral and his crew on a strange island whose inhabitants, the Frivolians, are devoted to fashion, hairstyles, novels, and fancy desserts. This tale is at once both playful and cynical and its biting irony spares neither the reputation of France nor that of England. It resonates with the most critical attacks by Jean-Jacques Rousseau against luxury and refinement, or those of Voltaire against his compatriots. This volume provides the first bilingual critical edition of a text that, in its time, caused a stir both in France and in England.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Carter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Imaginary Worlds written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds—which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature—are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.
Download or read book A Discovery of the Island Frivola Or The Frivolous Island written by abbé Coyer (Gabriel François) and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book North American Players of Shakespeare written by Michael W. Shurgot and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of interviews of twenty-one actors from Shakespeare theaters and festivals across North America, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. The interviews celebrate the variety in education, training, and approaches to acting conducted by recognized performance scholars. Thus, this book combines scholarly expertise with actors' insights to produce unique views on contemporary Shakespearean performances in the United States and Canada, and fills an important niche in performance criticism. Michael W. Shurgot is Professor of Humanities at South Puget Sound Community College.
Download or read book The Works of Mons de la Bruyere The characters or manners of the age cont The characters of Theophrastus translated from the Greek with a prefatory discourse concerning Theophrastus by Mr de la Bruyere Mons de la Bruyere s Speech upon his admission into the French academy June the 15th 1693 Of the manner of living with great men written after the method of mons de la Bruyere by the late N Rowe esq written by Jean de La Bruyère and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Images of the Antipodes in the Eighteenth Century written by David Fausett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books Manuscripts Maps Illustrating America Etc written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana A catalogue of a collection of books pamphlets c for sale With written by John Russell Smith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Illustrating the history and geography of north and south America, and the west Indies, altogether forming the most extensive collection ever offered for sale.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by John Russell Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
