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Book G  nie Du Christianisme

Download or read book G nie Du Christianisme written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book G  nie Du Christianisme Et D  fense Du G  nie Du Christianisme Avec Notes Et   claricements

Download or read book G nie Du Christianisme Et D fense Du G nie Du Christianisme Avec Notes Et claricements written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book a contribution to the study of the sources of the genie du christianisme

Download or read book a contribution to the study of the sources of the genie du christianisme written by and published by Slatkine. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Consecration of the Writer  1750 1830

Download or read book The Consecration of the Writer 1750 1830 written by Paul Bänichou and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consecration of the Writer is the definitive study of the first stages of a phenomenon that has profoundly affected world literature: the process by which modern writers ceased to speak as representatives of some religious or political power and instead seized the mantle of spiritual authority in their own right, speaking directly to and in the name of humanity. ø Paul Bänichou identifies three great moments in this process: the advent of the Enlightenment faith in philosophy and the rise of its literary concomitant, the man of letters; the literary creations of the counterrevolution and their surprising involvement in the elevation of the status of poetry; and, finally, the fusion of these tendencies in the early phases of romanticism in France. ø Bänichou deepens our understanding of romanticism by showing that it was a revision of the Enlightenment faith rather than a reaction against it. The extraordinary depth of Bänichou?s research, the originality of his conclusions, and the importance of his methodological reflections make this study an essential reference in the contemporary return to literary history.

Book The National Habitus

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  • Author : Marie-Pierre Le Hir
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2014-08-27
  • ISBN : 3110363062
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The National Habitus written by Marie-Pierre Le Hir and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about border crossers, illegal aliens, refugees that regularly appear in the press everywhere point to the crucial role national identity plays in human beings' lives today. The National Habitus seeks to understand how and why national belonging became so central to a person's identity and sense of identity. Centered on the acquisition of the national habitus, the process that transforms subjects into citizens when a state becomes a nation-state, the book examines this transformation at the individual level in the case of nineteenth century France. Literary texts serve as primary material in this study of national belonging, because, as Germaine de Staël pointed out long ago, literature has the unique ability to provide access to "inner feelings." The term "habitus," in the title of this book, signals a departure from traditional approaches to nationalism, a break with the criteria of language, race, and ethnicity typically used to examine it. It is grounded instead in a sociology that deals with the subjective dimension of life and is best exemplified by the works of Norbert Elias (1897–1990) and Pierre Bourdieu (1931–2002), two sociologists who approach belief systems like nationalism from a historical, instead of an ethical vantage point. By distinguishing between two groups of major French writers, three who experienced the 1789 Revolution firsthand as adults (Olympe de Gouges, François René de Chateaubriand and Germaine de Staël) and three who did not (Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, and George Sand), the book captures evolving understandings of the nation, as well as thoughts and emotions associated with national belonging over time. Le Hir shows that although none of these writers is typically associated with nationalism, all of them were actually affected by the process of nationalization of feelings, thoughts, and habits, irrespective of aesthetic preferences, social class, or political views. By the end of the nineteenth century, they had learned to feel and view themselves as French nationals; they all exhibited the characteristic features of the national habitus: love of their own nation, distrust and/or hatred of other nations. By underscoring the dual contradictory nature of the national habitus, the book highlights the limitations nation-based identities impose on the prospect for peace.

Book Atala and Ren

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  • Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Atala and Ren written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genius in France

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  • Author : Ann Jefferson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-12-21
  • ISBN : 1400852595
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Genius in France written by Ann Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book spans three centuries to provide the first full account of the long and diverse history of genius in France. Exploring a wide range of examples from literature, philosophy, and history, as well as medicine, psychology, and journalism, Ann Jefferson examines the ways in which the idea of genius has been ceaselessly reflected on and redefined through its uses in these different contexts. She traces its varying fortunes through the madness and imposture with which genius is often associated, and through the observations of those who determine its presence in others. Jefferson considers the modern beginnings of genius in eighteenth-century aesthetics and the works of philosophes such as Diderot. She then investigates the nineteenth-century notion of national and collective genius, the self-appointed role of Romantic poets as misunderstood geniuses, the recurrent obsession with failed genius in the realist novels of writers like Balzac and Zola, the contested category of female genius, and the medical literature that viewed genius as a form of pathology. She shows how twentieth-century views of genius narrowed through its association with IQ and child prodigies, and she discusses the different ways major theorists—including Sartre, Barthes, Derrida, and Kristeva—have repudiated and subsequently revived the concept. Rich in narrative detail, Genius in France brings a fresh approach to French intellectual and cultural history, and to the burgeoning field of genius studies.

Book Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb

Download or read book Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb written by François-René de Chateaubriand and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.

Book The Folly of the Cross

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  • Author : Richard Viladesau
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 019087600X
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book The Folly of the Cross written by Richard Viladesau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception of the message of the cross from the European Enlightenment to the turn of the twentieth century. The opening chapters set the stage in the transition from the Baroque to the Classical eras, describing the changing intellectual and cultural paradigms of the time. Viladesau examines the theology of the cross in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the aesthetic mediation of the cross in music and the visual arts. He shows how in the post-Enlightenment era the aesthetic treatment of the cross widely replaced the dogmatic treatment, and how this thought was translated into popular spirituality, piety, and devotion. The Folly of the Cross shows how classical theology responded to the critiques of modern science, history, Biblical scholarship, and philosophy, and how both classical and modern theology served as the occasions for new forms of representation of Christ's passion in the arts and music.

Book Catholic and French Forever

Download or read book Catholic and French Forever written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress.

Book The Belgian Essays

Download or read book The Belgian Essays written by Charlotte Bronte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venturing out of Yorkshire for the first time in their lives, the Bronte sisters Charlotte and Emily traveled to Brussels in 1842, and Charlotte returned for another visit in 1843. The journeys proved to be pivotal in both their writing careers. Under the tutelage of their brilliant teacher Constantin Heger, the young authors penned the twenty-eight essays (devoirs) collected for the first time in this volume. Each essay, presented in its original French, is accompanied by an English translation and commentary to establish historical and literary context. Where M. Heger made comments, they are reproduced in full. Nine of the essays have never been published before. Sue Lonoff offers a mine of information on the Brontes and their Brussels experience, exploring why the months in Belgium meant so much to the sisters and how their writing exercises affected their developing prose styles.

Book The Memoirs of Ren   Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England

Download or read book The Memoirs of Ren Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England written by Francois René Chateaubriand and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England by Francois René Chateaubriand

Book The Historical Present

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  • Author : Walter Kudrycz
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2011-03-17
  • ISBN : 1441110577
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Historical Present written by Walter Kudrycz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing understandings of the Middle Ages from the Age of Reason to the present, and how these relate to wider historiographical and philosophical developments.

Book Volume 5  Tome III  Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions   Literature  Drama and Music

Download or read book Volume 5 Tome III Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions Literature Drama and Music written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods. Moreover, he also read a diverse range of genres. His interests concerned not just philosophy, theology and literature but also drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard's sources in these different fields of thought. Tome III covers the sources that are relevant for literature, drama and music. Kierkegaard was well read in the European literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He was captivated by the figure of Cervantes' Don Quixote, who is used as a model for humor and irony. He also enjoyed French literature, represented here by articles on Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and Mérimée. French dramatists were popular on the Danish stage, and Kierkegaard demonstrated an interest in, among others, Moliére and Scribe. Although he never possessed strong English skills, this did not prevent him from familiarizing himself with English literature, primarily with the help of German translations. While there is an established body of secondary material on Kierkegaard's relation to Shakespeare, little has been said about his use of the Irish dramatist Sheridan. It is obvious from, among other things, The Concept of Irony that Kierkegaard knew in detail the works of some of the main writers of the German Romantic movement. However, his use of the leading figures of the British Romantic movement, Byron and Shelley, remains largely unexplored terrain. The classic Danish authors of the eighteenth century, Holberg, Wessel and Ewald, were influential figures who prepared the way for the Golden Age of Danish poetry. Kierkegaard constantly refers to their dramatic characters, whom he often employs to illustrate a philosophical idea with a pregnant example or turn of phrase. Finally, while Kierkegaard is not an obvious name in musicology, his analysis of Mozart's Don Giovanni shows that he had a keen interest in music on many different levels.

Book A Contribution to the Study of the Sources of the Genie Du Christianisme

Download or read book A Contribution to the Study of the Sources of the Genie Du Christianisme written by Madeleine Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Romantic Historiosophy

Download or read book A Romantic Historiosophy written by Arthur McCalla and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intellectual history study establishes Ballanche as an important figure in the intellectual life of early nineteenth-century France, and demonstrates how his religio-social project effected a critical step in the historical-mindedness of the Romantic period.

Book A History of French Literature

Download or read book A History of French Literature written by Edward Dowden and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A History of French Literature by Edward Dowden