Download or read book The Princess of Babylon French Classics written by Voltaire and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Princess of Babylon" is a rarely published philosophical tale that Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) wrote in 1768. --- The story focuses on Amazan, a handsome, unknown shepherd, and Formosanta, the Princess of Babylon, whose love and jealousy drive them to travel the world. During their travels, Voltaire, by using metaphors and adventurous scenes, confronts the protagonists and the reader with basic Enlightenment values.

Download or read book The Terror of Natural Right written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.

Download or read book Disabled Powers written by Robin Howells and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reading of the Romans et Contes of Voltaire in the light of Bakhtin's concept of the Carnivalesque. Part I of this study establishes a paradigm for the twenty-six Contes. It focuses on generic patterns and a thematics of disablement. Part II offers carnivalesque readings of two tales, Le Monde comme il va and Candide. The last Part considers successively six of the later Contes, including L'Ingénu and Jenni, and the historical changes in consciousness that they reflect. The shift towards bourgeois realism is evident in the rise of sentiment and the patriarchal family on the one hand, materialism on the other. These tales exhibit an increasingly deep ambivalence towards corporality. In conclusion the study traces the changing forms of the carnivalesque figure, from geometrical to vitalist, within the Contes as a whole.

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Download or read book Babylon Under Western Eyes written by Andrew Scheil and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon's remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the "Left Behind" series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime. Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture.

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Download or read book A History of the French Novel to the Close of the 19th Century From the beginning to 1800 written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Progressive French Reader written by Norman Pinney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Download or read book A History of the French Novel to the Close of the 19th Century written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library Catalogue of the miscellaneous portion of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library written by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Paul Schellinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 2557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.

Download or read book Studies in French Language Literature and History written by Fraser Mackenzie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1949, this volume contains 23 essays in the field of French studies by colleagues of Professor R. L. Greene.

Download or read book Best Voltaire Quotes written by James Alexander and published by Crombie Jardine Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Paris on 21 November 1694, Francois-Marie Arouet, pen name Voltaire, was a French philosopher, playwright, poet, and historian. A prolific and influential French Enlightenment writer in various forms (from novels to scientific works), he was particularly outspoken when it came to the subjects of civil liberties and religious intolerance. This is a collection of his best quotes.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Keiogijuku Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: