Download or read book Great French Tales of Fantasy Contes fantastiques c l bres written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
Download or read book Contes Fantastiques C l bres written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of enchanting tales spotlights the works of 5 outstanding French writers prominent during the 19th century. Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Informative introduction and notes.
Download or read book Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy written by Hector Berlioz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hector Berlioz (1803 1869), considered the father of modern orchestration, possessed an intuitive musical genius all the more remarkable for his limited formal musical education. A brilliant colorist, a master of the unexpected rhythmic break, he brought a new symphonic richness to Romantic music. Both damned and venerated by his contemporaries Mendelssohn considered him devoid of talent, Paganini declared him the one true heir to the spirit of Beethoven Berlioz seems to have sought in music a way to soothe and give voice to the turbulent psychological instabilities and contradictions of what has come to be called "program music" i.e., instrumental music with an extramusical significance. He strove to communicate musically the experiences, psychological themes, scenic description, and literary allusions more commonly associated with the confessional writings of Romantic poets. This Dover edition presents two of the greatest of these "program" pieces: the "Symphonie Fantastique" (1830) and "Harold in Italy" (1834). Here are the full scores of both major symphonic works painstakingly reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Hartel edition, available for the first time in one convenient volume plus Berlioz's "program" for the "Symphonie Fantastique." Musicians and music lovers everywhere will value this high-quality, inexpensive edition ideal for study and performance."
Download or read book Baudelaire Devant L innombrable written by Antoine Compagnon and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People Places and Themes written by Mike Ridout and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook follows the structure of the Bristol Project (OCR Syllabus C). It can be used as a stand-alone resource or alongside the core book as the pagination is identical. The text has been simplified to make it suitable for low-ability students, and covers skills, techniques and coursework.
Download or read book The Feminine as Fantastic in the Conte Fantastique written by Amy J. Ransom and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic genre holds a privileged position in literary and feminist studies because of its open exploration of the limits of mimetic creation and its attempts to represent alterity, both feminine and supernatural. This study traces its development as a product of the dramatically changing cultural context of nineteenth-century France. Examining post-revolutionary concerns about questions of gender and identity, this work observes the increasingly disruptive force of the feminine fantastic upon the masculine subject/author as symptomatic of a crisis underlying dominant attitudes toward material progress, which culminated in the death of the representational in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Paul de Man Notebooks written by de Man Paul de Man and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.
Download or read book Some Parallels Between the Conte Fantastique of the Nineteenth Century and Surrealism written by Hilda B. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cone bearing Trees of the Pacific Coast written by Nathan Abbott Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tamarin et le pouvoir du Tachyus Science fiction et fantastique written by François Lemay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamarin est un jeune garçon timide et réservé. Il habite la petite ville de St-Oracle avec sa mère. Il a un ami, ti-Geek, un jeune pirate informatique, et une flamme: la belle Graziella. Mais Tamarin sent qu'il est un garçon différent des autres. Il lui arrive parfois d'avoir d'étranges visions. Un jour, une femme entre en contact avec lui. Elle prétend connaître ce mystérieux pouvoir qu'il possède: le Tachyus. Il doit la rejoindre pour qu'elle lui enseigne à le maîtriser.À travers toute une série d'événements qui s'enclencheront, le jeune Tamarin découvrira qu'il est au centre d'un vaste complot visant à rétablir le règne des Tuatha Dé Dânann, des dieux déchus revenus d'exil qui ont juré de mettre fin à l'existence des êtres humains pour sauver la Terre. Mais pour arriver à leurs fins, ils ont besoin du Mog Ruith dont parle un livre sacré très ancien.
Download or read book Wartime Journalism 1939 1943 written by Paul De Man and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In occupied Belgium during World War II, Paul de Man (1919-1983) wrote music, lecture, and exhibition reviews, a regular book column, interviews, and articles on cultural politics for the Brussels daily newspaper Le Soir. From December 1940 until he resigned in November 1942, de Man contributed almost 200 articles to this and another newspaper, both then controlled by Nazi sympathizers and vocal advocates of the "new order." Later to become one of the most respected and influential literary theorists in America, de Man, then 21 and 22 years old, wrote primarily as the chief literary critic for Le Soir. His weekly column reviewed the latest novels and poetry from Belgium, France, Germany, and England. De Man commented extensively on major propaganda expositions, and interviewed leading writers and cultural figures, including Paul Valery and the future Vichy Education minister Abel Bonnard. The political extremes of de Man's wartime writing are marked by two articles. His single anti-Semitic article, "Les Juifs dans la litterature actuelle" (4 March 1941), acquiesces in the deportation of Jews to "a Jewish colony isolated from Europe." But de Man later argued in defense of a Resistance-linked journal ("A propos de la revue Messages," 14 July 1942) against the "totalitarian" censors' "unconsidered attacks." This volume reprints in facsimile all of de Man's articles in Le Soir as well as three articles he wrote prior to the occupation in 1940 as editor of the liberal Cahiers du Libre Examen. It also includes English translations of the ten articles written in Flemmish for the Antwerp paper Het Vlaamsche Land, in March-October 1942. The collection appears under the auspices of the Oxford Literary Review, England's leading theoretical journal for over a decade.
Download or read book Le Guide Musical written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aloysius Bertrand s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem written by Valentina Gosetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the prose poem. By placing Bertrand back in his original context, adopting a comparative approach and engaging with recent critical work on the collection, Valentina Gosetti proposes a substantial reassessment of Gaspard de la Nuit and promotes a new understanding of Bertrand in his own terms, rather than those of his successors. Through his playful and ironic reinterpretation of Romantic clichés, and his overt defiance of the boundaries of poetry and beauty, Bertrand emerges as a fascinating figure in his own right. This book is one of the first full-length studies of Bertrand’s work, and it will be of particular interest to specialists of the nineteenth century and of provincial literature, and to students of nineteenth-century poetry or the fantastic.
Download or read book Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema written by Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been put in place by scholarly discourse to label 1940s horror as somehow inferior to a “classical” period or “canonical” mode of horror in the 1930s, especially as represented by the monster films of Universal Studios. The book's four sections re-evaluate the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors informing 1940s horror cinema to introduce new theoretical frameworks and to open up space for scholarly discussion of 1940s horror genre hybridity, periodization, and aesthetics. Chapters focused on Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions operating in forties horror cinema, 1940s proto-slasher films, the independent horrors of the Poverty Row studios, and critical reevaluations of neglected hybrid films such as The Vampire’s Ghost (1945) and “slippery” auteurs such as Robert Siodmak and Sam Neufield, work to recover a decade of horror that has been framed as having fallen victim to repetition, exhaustion, and decline.
Download or read book Inqui tude in the work of Pierre Mac Orlan written by Roger W. Baines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study in English of the work of the French novelist, essayist, journalist, poet and ‘chansonnier’ Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970). It assesses Mac Orlan's contribution to the post-1918 phenomenon of intellectual disillusionment and disorientation which was termed the ‘nouveau mal du siècle’, or ‘inquiétude’. Although he has largely been ignored by critics thus far, Mac Orlan was part of mainstream French literary production and a major exponent of ‘inquiétude’. Where he differs from his contemporaries is in his subject matter, in his use of sociological, rather than abstract, intellectual material. His expression of ‘inquiétude’ encompasses: ‘le fantastique social’; adventure; marginality; ‘le cafard’; and sadistic sexuality. His originality lies in his invention of ‘le fantastique social’, in his constant use of certain techniques, as well as the subject matter, of German Expressionism via the depiction of the disturbing landscape of the modern city, post-1918 inflation and decadence, prostitutes and criminals, doomed adventurers, the mystery of modern technology, and in the expression of a morbid interest in sexual violence. This volume will be of particular interest to students of inter-war French literature and thought.
Download or read book Let s parler Franglais written by Miles Kington and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A true comic genius’ Ian Hislop ‘Ridiculously funny’ Joanna Lumley Bonjour toutes les personnes! Welcome to the wonderful world of Franglais. The trouble with French is that there are far too few English words in it. Miles Kington – the critic, columnist, and creator of Franglais – puts that right. His magnificent new language can be understood by almost anyone who failed GCSE French. If you passed GCSE French it could be tricky, but do try anyway. So achetez! Lisez! Et enjoy! Merci beaucoup. ‘What a truly gifted, consistently funny writer’ Maureen Lipman ‘Utterly charming and extremely funny’ Independent Miles Kington was one of Britain’s most renowned and best loved journalists. Born in County Down, he grew up in Wales and was educated in Scotland, which was all a big mistake as he was actually English. A presenter, playwright, polymath and wit, he wrote columns for The Times, the Independent, Punch and The Oldie. His other acclaimed titles include Someone Like Me, How Shall I Tell the Dog? and The Franglais Lieutenant’s Woman.
