Download or read book Les Natchez written by François-René de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Natchez sont une oeuvre de jeunesse de Fran�ois-Ren� de Chateaubriand, consid�r�e comme un po�me en prose ou un roman, publi�e en 1821.R�sum� : Po�me en prose dont la composition remonte � 1796-1797.Histoire de la tribu indienne des Natchez, r�volt� contre les Fran�ais en 1727. La seconde partie de l''oeuvre prend l''allure d''un roman : Ren� est accueilli en Louisiane chez les Natchez par le vieux Chactas ; il sera finalement assassin� par un Natchez.Biographie : Fran�ois-Ren�, vicomte de Chateaubriand, n� � Saint-Malo le 4 septembre 1768 et mort � Paris le 4 juillet 1848, est un �crivain et homme politique fran�ais. Il est consid�r� comme l''un des pr�curseurs du romantisme fran�ais et l''un des grands noms de la litt�rature fran�aise. En mati�re politique, Chateaubriand s''inscrit dans la mouvance royaliste. Il est notamment nomm� ministre des Affaires �trang�res sous la Restauration. Mais c''est dans le domaine litt�raire que sa notori�t� est la plus grande. En effet ses descriptions de la nature et son analyse des sentiments du � moi � en ont fait un mod�le pour la g�n�ration des �crivains romantiques en France (� Je veux �tre Chateaubriand ou rien � proclamait le jeune Victor Hugo). Il a aussi, le premier, dans Ren�, ou les Effets des passions (1802) formul� le � vague des passions � qui deviendra un lieu commun du romantisme et fera de Ren� le personnage embl�matique de cette sensibilit� nouvelle, cr��e avec une prose ample et rythm�e que ses d�tracteurs qualifieront d''ampoul�e. Il participera aussi au go�t pour l''exotisme de l''�poque en �voquant l''Am�rique du Nord o� il a voyag�, dans Atala (1801) ou Les Natchez (1826), ou encore dans le r�cit de son voyage en M�diterran�e dans Itin�raire de Paris � J�rusalem en 1811.L''oeuvre monumentale de Chateaubriand reste les M�moires d''outre-tombe (posthumes, 1849-1850) dont les premiers livres recr�ent son enfance et sa formation dans son milieu social de petite noblesse bretonne � Saint-Malo ou � Combourg, alors que les livres suivants rel�vent davantage du tableau historique des p�riodes dont il a �t� le t�moin de 1789 � 1841, ce qui fait de ce texte � la fois un chef-d''oeuvre autobiographique et un t�moignage historique de premier plan...Extrait : On peut lire dans Charlevoix (Histoire de la Nouvelle−France, t. IV, p. 24) le fait historique qui sert de base � la composition des Natchez. C''est de l''action particuli�re racont�e par l''historien que j''ai fait, en l''agrandissant, le sujet de mon ouvrage. Le lecteur verra ce que la fiction a ajout� � la v�rit�. J''ai d�j� dit qu''il existait deux manuscrits des Natchez : l''un divis� en livres, et qui ne va gu�re qu''� la moiti� de l''ouvrage ; l''autre qui contient le tout sans division, et avec tout le d�sordre de la mati�re. De l� une singularit� litt�raire dans l''ouvrage tel que je le donne au public : le premier volume s''�l�ve � la dignit� de l''�pop�e, comme dans les Martyrs ; le second volume descend � la narration ordinaire, comme dans Atala et dans Ren�. Pour arriver � l''unit� du style, il e�t fallu effacer du premier volume la couleur �pique ou l''�tendre sur le second : or, dans l''un ou l''autre cas, je n''aurais plus reproduit avec fid�lit� le travail de ma jeunesse. Ainsi donc, dans le premier volume des Natchez on trouvera le merveilleux, et le merveilleux de toutes les esp�ces : le merveilleux chr�tien, le merveilleux mythologique, le merveilleux indien ; on rencontrera des muses, des anges, des d�mons, des g�nies, des combats, des personnages all�goriques : la Renomm�e, le Temps, la Nuit, la Mort, l''Amiti�. Ce volume offre des invocations, des sacrifices, des prodiges, des comparaisons multipli�es, les unes courtes, les autres longues, � la fa�on d''Hom�re, et formant de petits tableaux.
Download or read book Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1917 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minerva s Message written by Martin S. Staum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In theory the CMPS was set up to enshrine the human and social studies that were at the heart of Enlightenment culture. Staum illustrates, however, that the Institute helped transform key ideas of the Enlightenment in order to maintain civil rights while upholding social stability, and that the social and political assumptions on which it was based affected notions of social science. He traces the careers of individual members and the factions within the Institute, arguing that the discord within the CMPS reflects the unravelling of Enlightenment culture. Minerva's Message presents a valuable overview of the intellectual life of the period and brings together new evidence about the social sciences in their nascent period.
Download or read book The Calendar in Revolutionary France written by Sanja Perovic and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
Download or read book A History of the French in London written by Debra Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War.It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.
Download or read book Our Fathers Have Told Us written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Francophonie and the Orient written by Mathilde Kang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paratexts written by Gerard Genette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.
Download or read book The French Revolution From its origins to 1793 written by Georges Lefebvre and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 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.
Download or read book Abb Sicard s Deaf Education written by Emmet Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Download or read book Walks in Rome written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writer of Modern Life written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book About the Contemplative Life written by Philo (of Alexandria.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages written by Bonnie Effros and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.
Download or read book Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards written by William Andrew Chatto and published by London : J.R. Smith. This book was released on 1848 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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