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Book Compassion s Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Ibbett
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0812249704
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Compassion s Edge written by Katherine Ibbett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

Book Princess Anne Grow Up   With Illustrations  Including Portraits

Download or read book Princess Anne Grow Up With Illustrations Including Portraits written by Anne (Princess Royal, daughter of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Failures of Feeling

Download or read book Failures of Feeling written by Wendy Anne Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion.

Book Open Secrets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne-Lise François
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780804752534
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Open Secrets written by Anne-Lise François and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open Secrets contests the dominant influences of utilitarianism, expressive individualism, and imperatives to self-improvement by examining a series of texts in which "nothing happens" and arguing that these works, far from hiding from narrative demands, make an open secret of fulfilled experience and yield a revelation without insistence or rhetorical underscoring.

Book The Cambridge History of the Novel in French

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Novel in French written by Adam Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.

Book Realism and Role Play

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  • Author : Marika Takanishi Knowles
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-09
  • ISBN : 1644532050
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Realism and Role Play written by Marika Takanishi Knowles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans standing at their windows, to vendors advertising their wares, to peasants standing before their landlords. Realism and Role-Play draws on literature, social history, and affect theory in order to understand the way that figuration performed social positions.

Book The European Roman d   Analyse

Download or read book The European Roman d Analyse written by Adele Kudish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction" examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge. Tracing elements of what the French call the roman d'analyse in the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Cervantes, Marie de Lafayette, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Stendhal, Adele Kudish discusses how the metaphor of unconsummated love is deployed to represent a fundamental lack of insight into the self. Rather than depicting the mind as transparent, analytical fiction deals in the opacity of the mind. Narrators and characters are faced with deception, misprision, doubt, and confusion, leading to self-deception, jealousy, and crises of self. The European Roman d'Analyse reads such epistemological failures as symptoms of a more fundamental preoccupation with the human psyche as un-chartable and bizarre. In this way, the authors of romans d'analyse enact a larger philosophical project: an anatomy of the psyche wherein we are unable-or unwilling-to know ourselves.

Book Princess Anne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine L. Oldmeadow
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Princess Anne written by Katharine L. Oldmeadow and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Europe

Download or read book Western Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tumbili

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  • Author : Anne Miller Johnson, M.D.
  • Publisher : Booktango
  • Release : 2012-07-13
  • ISBN : 1468910396
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book Tumbili written by Anne Miller Johnson, M.D. and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1960, two newlywed physicians travel to Tanganyika, Africa, to change the world. Instead, they find themselves in the midst of a sinister germ warfare plot. Years after their deaths, their daughter comes across letters written by her parents to one other, to friends, and to family. Through these letters, she comes to know the parents she lost while still a young child, and she uncovers the true story of their demise. The reader will delight in what begins as a love story, continues as a medical drama, morphs into a mystery, and ultimately ends in horror.

Book Sussex Drive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Svendsen
  • Publisher : Random House Canada
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 0307362353
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Sussex Drive written by Linda Svendsen and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startingly funny and deeply satisfying satirical novel that makes the Canadian political scene accessible from the female perspective, behind the scenes at the top of the hill. Torn from the headlines, Sussex Drive is a rollicking, cheeky, alternate history of big-ticket political items in Canada told from the perspectives of Becky Leggatt (the sublimely capable and manipulative wife of a hard-right Conservative prime minister) and just a wink away at Rideau Hall, Lise Lavoie (the wildly exotic and unlikely immigrant Governor General)—two wives and mothers living their private lives in public. Set in recent history, when the biggest House on their turf is shuttered not once, not twice, but three times, Becky and Lise engage in a fight to the death in a battle that involves Canada’s relationship to the United States, Afghanistan and Africa. The rest of the time, the women are driving their kids. From Linda Svendsen’s sharp and wicked imagination comes a distaff Ottawa like no other ever created by a Canadian writer, of women manoeuvring in a political world gone more than a little mad, hosting world leaders, dealing with the challenges of minority government, and worrying about teen pregnancies and their own marriages. As they juggle these competing interests, Becky and Lise are forced to question what they thought were their politics, and make difficult choices about their families and their futures—federal and otherwise.

Book Anne  Princess of Everything

Download or read book Anne Princess of Everything written by Blanche Elizabeth Wade and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billboard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974-02-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-02-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Book Bibliographic Guide to Womens Studies 1998

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Womens Studies 1998 written by New York Public Library Staff and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Michel Ocelot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Buono
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2023-12-01
  • ISBN : 1000996875
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Michel Ocelot written by Laura Buono and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book examines the career of Michel Ocelot, from his earliest works to his latest research and productions, including an interview regarding his latest film Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse (2022). The book highlights the director’s role in the panorama of contemporary animated cinema and his relationship with the tradition, both artistic and cinematographic. The book carefully analyses the ethical and social nature of Ocelot’s work to underscore the duality of the director’s oeuvre, both artistic and social, using an interdisciplinary approach that blends film and aesthetic criticism with gender studies and decolonial thought. Particular attention will be given to the themes of multiculturalism, discrimination, and treatment of women, which are at the centre of many current cultural debates. The book will be of interest to an audience of experts, animation enthusiasts, and film scholars, as well as to a wider readership interested in learning about the poetics of Kirikou’s father.

Book Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert

Download or read book Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert written by Ullrich Langer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ullrich Langer investigates why lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity from Virgil to Flaubert.

Book Princess Anne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paula James
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Princess Anne written by Paula James and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: