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Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Against the Third Republic

Download or read book Three Against the Third Republic written by Michael Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Republic of France was characterized by weak and short-term governments. This book is a study of three writers, Georges Sorel, Maurice Barres, and Charles Maurras, their writings in the years between 1885 and 1914, and their reactions to the deficiencies they saw in the Third Republic and in the system of French democracy. The study begins in 1885 with the appearance of certain new political factors. It ends in 1914 because the three writers had by this time completed their original contributions to the thought of the country, even if not their total impact on France.A relative position of each of these figures in the French political spectrum is deduced from a combination of attitudes toward a number of issues. These include the extent of economic and social reform, centralization of the power of the state, the nature of the parliamentary system, the desirability of political parties, the relation of Church and State, the responsibility of authority, the use of force or coercion, and national power versus international collaboration. Their views span the political spectrum.Sorel, Barres, and Maurras are important not only because they provided the chief ideological weapons for the attack on the regime but also, in a wider context, because they contribute significantly to understanding of a later period of European political history. In their contemporary significance, all three illustrated the various attitudes of the conservative, the .reactionary, and the moralist. The names and parties may have changed but the same ideas continue to impact French politics and western ideology today. This is a key book for an epoch whose importance lingers in current discourse.

Book The Literary World

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1848
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

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Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 932 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Epigones

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  • Author : William A. McComish
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 091513862X
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book The Epigones written by William A. McComish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

Book The Spectator

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  • Release : 1845
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 676 pages

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Book Appleton s Library Manual

Download or read book Appleton s Library Manual written by D. Appleton and Co. (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle

Download or read book Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle written by Marian Elizabeth Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The "divorce" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score for Giselle. ?

Book Document

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  • Author : Boston (Mass.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1846
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1478 pages

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Book Miscellaneous Pamphlets

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  • Author : Charles Sumner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1845
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1094 pages

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Book Appleton s Library Manual

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  • Author : Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Appleton s Library Manual written by Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Possession at Loudun

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  • Author : Michel de Certeau
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2000-08
  • ISBN : 9780226100340
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Possession at Loudun written by Michel de Certeau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau. Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical documents with fascinating commentary, de Certeau shows how the plague of sorceries and possessions in France that climaxed in the events at Loudun both revealed the deepest fears of a society in traumatic flux and accelerated its transformation. In this tour de force of psychological history, de Certeau brings to vivid life a people torn between the decline of centralized religious authority and the rise of science and reason, wracked by violent anxiety over what or whom to believe. At the time of his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau was a director of studies at the école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He was author of eighteen books in French, three of which have appeared in English translation as The Practice of Everyday Life,The Writing of History, and The Mystic Fable, Volume 1, the last of which is published by The University of Chicago Press. "Brilliant and innovative. . . . The Possession at Loudun is [de Certeau's] most accessible book and one of his most wonderful."—Stephen Greenblatt (from the Foreword)

Book The Monthly Literary Advertiser

Download or read book The Monthly Literary Advertiser written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elegant Extracts from the Most Celebrated British Prose Writers

Download or read book Elegant Extracts from the Most Celebrated British Prose Writers written by D. O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bent s Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings  Works on the Fine Arts

Download or read book Bent s Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings Works on the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: