Download or read book Second French Reader written by Eugene Gotye and published by Audiolego. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A private detective is following the girl he is in love with. A former air force pilot, he is discovering some sides in the human nature he can't deal with. The book makes use of the ALARM Method to efficiently teach its reader French words, sentences and dialogues. Through this method, a person will be able to enhance his or her ability to remember the words that has been incorporated into consequent sentences from time to time. The book is equipped with the audio tracks. The address of the home page of the book on the Internet, where audio files are available for listening and downloading, is listed at the beginning of the book on the copyright page.
Download or read book The Demon in Democracy written by Ryszard Legutko and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutality. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
Download or read book The Age of the Democratic Revolution written by R. R. Palmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age. Palmer argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions—and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere—were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts. Palmer traces the clash between an older form of society, marked by legalized social rank and hereditary or self-perpetuating elites, and a new form of society that placed a greater value on social mobility and legal equality. Featuring a new foreword by David Armitage, this Princeton Classics edition of The Age of the Democratic Revolution introduces a new generation of readers to this enduring work of political history.
Download or read book Age of the Democratic Revolution A Political History of Europe and America 1760 1800 Volume 1 written by R. R. Palmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.
Download or read book Un Dernier Reve written by W. E. Gutman and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans sa nouvelle et inquiétante dystopie, W.E. Gutman traverse les régions cauchemaresques de la folie. Écrit pour l'écran ou le théâtre, UN DERNIER RÊVE pose des questions angoissantes : Les songes que nous tissons, les idées que nous enfantons, nos fantasmes et nos chimères -- pourraient-ils un jour nous trahir? L'inégalité, l'incompatibilité des rêves, l'antagonisme qu'ils suscitent, seraient-ils à l'origine de tout conflit humain? Les rêveurs, seront-ils guettés, pistés par une imminente police du rêve et réduits au silence? Peut-on transformer les insoumis en abrutis serviles? Dans U.
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Download or read book Le diable dans la d mocratie written by Ryszard Legutko and published by L'artilleur. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryszard Legutko a vécu une partie de son existence dans la Pologne communiste. Professeur de philosophie et éditeur d’une revue clandestine, il a expérimenté le fonctionnement d’un régime totalitaire dans ses aspects les plus concrets. Après la chute du mur et le retour de la liberté, il fut stupéfait de voir les ex-communistes s’adapter bien mieux que les anciens dissidents à la démocratie libérale et aux affaires. Il voulut comprendre les raisons de cette étonnante compatibilité. En étudiant dans les détails les évolutions récentes de la démocratie libérale, il a découvert qu’elle partage en fait de nombreux traits inquiétants avec le communisme. Culte du « progrès », certitude qu’il existe un « sens de l’Histoire », volonté de transformer la société en luttant contre les adversaires de « l’émancipation et de l’égalité », soumission du suffrage populaire à des instances élitaires non élues, et aboutissement dans les deux cas, derrière le discours de la tolérance, à l’incapacité à tolérer aucune opinion contraire. A l’heure où, dans les démocraties occidentales, nombre d’électeurs sentent qu’ils ne sont plus vraiment maîtres de leurs choix politiques et qu’ils doivent même censurer leurs propres opinions, cet ouvrage permet, en remontant le fil des changements récents, d’identifier clairement les erreurs commises et les solutions pour les réparer.
Download or read book Theatre in Balzac s La Comedie humaine written by Linzy Erika Dickinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of Balzac's work to examine theatre in La Comédie humaine both as a theme in itself and for its influence on Balzac's techniques and modes of presentation in his novels, and to demonstrate the symbiotic influence of novel and stage on Balzac's work as a playwright and novelist. It will be of interest not only to students of Balzac, but also to students of nineteenth-century theatre and history. The introduction gives an account of Balzac's experience of the theatre; the first three chapters examine the historicity of Balzac's portrayal of the theatre world and how this portrayal serves his wider narrative purpose; the two following chapters demonstrate how and why Balzac relies on the theatre to provide a rich tissue of metaphor and bank of expressive devices with which to communicate his critique of society; finally the work shows how Balzac succeeded in bringing to the stage the same scrutiny of the capitalist ethos which underpins La Comédie humaine. An index of references to playwrights, plays, actors and stage characters in La Comédie humaine is given in an appendix.
Download or read book Cixous s Semi Fictions written by Mairead Hanrahan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hélène Cixous, author of over forty works of fiction, was deemed by Derrida to be the greatest living writer in French in 1990. Consistent with this evaluation, her writing is renowned for its dense poetical texture and lyricism. At the same time, she has been described by one of Derrida's translators, Peggy Kamuf, as 'one of our age's greatest semi-theoreticians'. Connecting these views, Hanrahan argues for a consideration of her texts as 'semi-fictions'. She offers an in-depth reading of five different texts, addressing their idiomatic specificity and investigating how the textual fabric unfolds.
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Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Charles Baudelaire and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1973-12-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire’s first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as the preface of the first volume of his translation of Poe’s tales, Histoires extraordinaires. This study was significant especially in the area of Franco-American literary relations because it was the basis of not only the French attitude toward Poe, but of his reputation throughout Europe—one might almost say, throughout the world. The essay on Poe has never been the subject of a separate publication. This edition reveals for the first time the sources of information used by Baudelaire. It shows that a considerable part of the study was translated literally from articles by John M. Daniel and John R. Thompson in the Southern Literary Messenger (1849–50). Previous editions vary widely in excellence because almost all suffered from the mistaken belief that Baudelaire was acquainted with the American edition of Poe’s works when he wrote the 1852 essay and that it was largely based on Rufus Griswold’s Memoir contained in that edition. This led to the commentary and notes that were unconsciously misleading and in many cases false. The introduction to this edition presents a complete and accurate account of the genesis of Baudelaire’s essay, with supporting documents showing his indebtedness to American, French, and British sources. It enables the reader to distinguish clearly between what Baudelaire himself knew or thought about Poe and what he borrowed from other writers.
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Download or read book Censorship Indirect Translations and Non translation written by Jaroslav Spirk and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indirect Translations and Non-Translation: The (Fateful) Adventures of Czech Literature in 20th-century Portugal, a pioneering study of the destiny of Czech and Slovak literature in 20th-century Portugal, is a gripping read for anyone seeking to look into intercultural exchanges in Europe beyond the so-called dominant or central cultures. Concentrating on relations between two medium-sized lingua- and socio-cultures via translation, this book discusses and thoroughly investigates indirect translations and the resulting phenomenon of indirect reception, the role of paratexts in evading censorship, surprising non-translation, and by extension, the impact of political ideology on the translation of literature. In drawing on the work of Jiří Levý and Anton Popovič, two outstanding Czechoslovak translation theorists, this book opens up new avenues of research, both theoretically and methodologically. As a whole, the author paints a much broader picture than might be expected. Scholars in areas as diverse as translation studies, comparative literature, reception studies, Czech literature and Portuguese culture will find inspiration in this book. By researching translation in two would-be totalitarian regimes, this monograph ultimately contributes to a better understanding of the international book exchanges in the 20th century between two non-dominant, or semi-peripheral, European cultures.
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