Download or read book France in the Classical Age Torchbooks written by Albert Léon Guérard and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book France in the Classical Age written by Albert Joseph Guérard and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Death of an Ideal written by Albert Léon Guérard and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Death of an Ideal France in the Classical Age Etc written by Albert Léon GUÉRARD and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classical Heritage in France written by Gerald N. Sandy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.

Download or read book Traditional Europe written by Robert Thomas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civilization in the West written by Crane Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civilization Past and Present written by Thomas Walter Wallbank and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book French Classicism Classic Reprint written by C. H. C. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Classicism Investigators of the French classical age arc prone to isolate the great writers of the seventeenth century. Students tend to feel, even when they know better, that Corneille and Racine were the undisputed leaders of the drama, that Boileau was the only spokesman for criticism. In this short volume I have emphasized the greater complexity of the age and have considered it also in its political and social environment. The perspective changes, and some great names give way to others less famous today: La Fontaine disappears somewhat behind a Rapin or a Rouhours. I have not attempted an encyclopaedic survey, but rather an outline, in which I have sought to keep the chief ideas in the foreground, instead of making complete enumerations of works or exhaustive bibliographies. Yet, as the book is meant primarily for English-speaking students, I have sometimes included references which to the French specialist may seem elementary. I have tried to show, with even less emphasis on the technical literary forms of the sixteenth century, that the classicism of the Renaissance deserves almost as serious consideration as that of the seventeenth century. In many ways, indeed, it is more akin to ancient classicism and is, at least in its ideals, often ethically superior to that of the age of Louis XIV. On the other hand, inasmuch as the social and literary forces of the eighteenth century became entangled with other forces, some of them foreign. I have thought it wise to stop with the seventeenth century. The criticism is anticipated that, though I have been brief. I have included authors or books not strictly classical. I have purposely avoided isolating writers or treating their works as logical abstractions. I have sought to merge them with their times. If this semi-historical method has defects, it has very distinct corresponding advantages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Birth of Classical Europe written by Simon Price and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them. The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close.

Download or read book A History of the Western World written by Solomon Modell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Civilization in the West Prehistory to 1715 written by Crane Brinton and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A History of Civilization Prehistory to 1715 written by Crane Brinton and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1976 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth Century France written by Koenraad W. Swart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was the best oftimes. It was the worst oftimes. " The famous open ing sentence ofCharles Dickens' Tale oJ Two Cities can serve as a motto to characterize the mixture of optimism and pessimism with which a large number of nineteenth-century intellectuals viewed the con dition of their age. It is nowadays hardly necessary to accentuate the optimistic elements in the nineteenth-century view of history; many recent historians have sharply contrasted the complacency and the great expectations of the past century with the fears and anxieties rampant in our own age. It is often too readily assumed that a hundred years ago all leading thinkers as weil as the educated public were addicted to the cult of progress and ignored or minimized those trends of their times that paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In the nineteenth century the intoxicating triumphs of modern science undeniably induced the general public to believe that pro gress was not an accident but a necessity and that evil and immo rality would gradually disappear. Yet fears, misgivings, and anxieties were not as exceptional in the nineteenth century as is often imagined. Such feelings were not restricted to a few dissenting philosophers and poets like Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, 'Dostoevsky, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche.