Download or read book TWO PLAYS written by Robert Blumenfeld and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Count of Sainte-Hélène: A Balzacian Melodrama takes place in 1817-1818 in Paris, during the Bourbon Restoration when Louis XVIII had been placed on the throne of France at the decree of the Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. This play is based on one of the most sensational cases solved by the first great detective in history, Eugène-François Vidocq, the ex-convict who became head of the French Sûreté (the Security Service of the French police). An altogether extraordinary individual, he was an acquaintance of Victor Hugo, who based both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Misérables on Vidocq; and a friend of Balzac, whose character Vautrin is even more closely inspired by and modeled on Vidocq than Hugo’s characters are. Interludes of the Hear: A Play about Marcel Proust, his life and loves, was inspired by my love for that author’s most famous book, In Search of Lost Time. The play goes back and forth in time, as the Student interviews Céleste Albaret, Proust’s housekeeper and general factotum, for his doctoral dissertation. When I read the book, I felt it was as if he were talking directly to me. I am sure many readers have had the same experience. Proust’s penetrating picture of the society of his day in pre-World War One France, and of Paris during the war itself, and his amazing, psychologically insightful portrait of each of his characters, his understanding of psychology that in some ways parallels that of Sigmund Freud, makes his book still relevant in today’s world.
Download or read book Russian Satiric Comedy written by Laurence Senelick and published by New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly recommended for all serious drama programs." --Choice 8.75 6 Trade Paper 14.95 CUSA 200 Original y
Download or read book The New Aesthetics of Deculturation written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises when religion is separated from the indigenous cultural values, Botz-Bornstein shows that the production of 'absolute' truths through deculturation also exists in contemporary education. The neoliberal environment has separated learning from culture by emphasizing standardization and quantified learning outcomes. In a globalized environment, the idea of culture is no longer available as a referent; instead we are taught to rely on the culturally neutral term 'excellence'. For Botz-Bornstein, this is an absolute value similar to the 'truth' of religious fundamentalists. Similarly, kitsch is what happens when aesthetic values are separated from cultural contexts. Kitsch is aesthetic fundamentalism. Kitsch aesthetics are an aesthetics of excellence. The consumption of kitsch can be understood as an intrinsically narcissistic impulse, reinforced by social media, individuals recycling their own selves without being confronted with the culture of the “other.” The existence of self-centred “alternative truths”, fake news and conspiracy theories and selfies are linked together in the fundamentalism–neoliberalism–kitsch pattern. Including analysis of the intersections of 'cute', 'excellent', 'sublime', and 'interesting' in contemporary aesthetic culture, this is a journey through philosophy, psychology and cultural theory, redefining a new aesthetics of deculturation.
Download or read book A Concordance to the French Poetry and Prose of John Gower written by R. F. Yeager and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1997-05-31 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concordance makes available, for the first time, Gower's extant Anglo-Norman vocabulary, including every word in full line and sentence context. The book offers a unique opportunity to view a poetic language as it was written and read in England until Gower's death in 1408 and beyond.
Download or read book Teaching Languages Creatively written by Philip Hood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Languages Creatively brings together the experience of international primary language experts to explore creative teaching and learning in primary languages. Drawing on the latest research and theory and illustrated with ideas and case studies from real schools, it covers key topics, including: engaging students in the target language; celebrating bilingualism in the classroom; incorporating technology into modern teaching; integrating language learning across the curriculum; successful transitions; learning languages through singing, storytelling and dance. Ideal for primary trainee teachers, newly qualified teachers, and established teachers looking for creative new ideas to enrich the learning experience of their students, Teaching Languages Creatively is an essential guide for inspiring the love of languages that is so vital for young learners.
Download or read book La langue des Francais written by J. R. Watson and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO description available
Download or read book A First French Reading Book Containing Fables Anecdotes Inventions Discoveries Natural History French History with Grammatical Questions and Notes and a Copious Etymological Dictionary written by William Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book The French Language Today written by Adrian Battye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the French language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Placing French within its social and historical context, the authors highlight the complex, diverse aspects of the language in a lively and accessible way. A variety of topics is covered, including the distribution of French in the world, the historical development of standard French, the sound system of French, its sentence patterns, and its stylistic and geographical variations. Fully updated and revised, this new edition places a greater emphasis on sociolinguistics. To make the book more user-friendly, the following new features have been added: * a further reading guide at the end of each chapter * a glossary of linguistic terms * an expanded bibliography and index.
Download or read book The Lycidus and Epitaphium Damonis of Milton written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ripening Sun written by Patricia Atkinson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ someone to tend to the wine while they earned their living with some financial consultancy work. There followed a series of disasters: the stock market crashed leaving their small holding as their sole source of income; the first red wine harvest turned to vinegar; and Patricia's husband returned to Britain, unable to cope with the stress. He never returned. Patricia Atkinson, whose only knowledge of wine up to that moment was 'that it came from a bottle' and who had not a word of French, was left to salvage their life savings form the vineyards. What follows is a remarkable story of struggle and transformation whereby her tiny 4 hectare plot has become a major estate of 21 hectares, where her Clos d'Yvigne wines have won awards and been adopted by wine merchants throughout the world and where she has been hailed as a superstar by UK wine writers.
Download or read book A New French English and English French Dictionary Comp from the English Dictionaries of Ogilive Worcester Etc and the French Dictionaries of Bescherelle Littre Etc and Works by E Clifton and A Grimaux French English written by Ebenezer Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Becoming Faulkner written by Philip Weinstein and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the celebrated American novelist explores how the events of Faulkner's life and his personal struggles influenced the direction and nature of his writings.
Download or read book Henri Michaux written by Nina Parish and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Michaux is both a recognised poet and visual artist, arguably one of the greatest ‘double artists’ of the twentieth century. This book presents the first detailed examination of a particular interdisciplinary aspect of his production, namely, the innovative experimentation with signs contained in four works: Mouvements, Par la voie des rythmes, Saisir and Par des traits. Questions arise concerning their literary and visual status as, in their attempt to render interior rhythm and dynamism, they occupy an interstitial space between writing and drawing, between the book and the canvas, between the Western alphabet and Chinese characters. This study addresses these questions by analysing the conception, production and reception of Michaux’s signs and the literary and artistic contexts in which they were produced.
Download or read book Pierre Michon written by Patrick Crowley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre Michon is one of France's most significant contemporary writers. Since the publication in 1984 of his first book, Vies minuscules, Michon's work has never ceased to evade generic classifications. His work ingests books, lives and thought and probes their complex interrelationship and those moments of convergence that transform an ordinary name into that of an 'Author' or of an 'Artist'. The contents of Michon's work are well documented: they are drawn from canonical novels, chronicles, archives and the biographies of artists' lives and are worked into cross-generic forms that revive names and make us rethink the uncertainty of literature. Less has been written of his engagement with avant-garde thought. The legacy of French avant-garde thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the work of Roland Barthes, informs Michon's work. Barthes's notions of the referent, of intertextuality and of authorship, for example, are transposed, reconfigured and sometimes contested within Michon's work. In this way, Barthes's name, the afterlife of his thought, remains encrypted within Michon's prose. This book situates and reads Michon's texts through the complex inscription and transformation of names drawn from the Creuse, literature, art and avant-garde thought. And it is within this matrix that Michon puts in play his own name and its uncertain relation to literature.
Download or read book Usage Pratique Et Courant Des Synonymes Anglais written by Ronald Ernest Batchelor and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on 1998 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of G A Henty Illustrated written by George Alfred Henty and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 22964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. A. Henty’s historical adventure stories have won the admiration of readers across the world, helping to change the course of children’s literature. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present the complete works of G. A. Henty, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Henty’s life and works * ALL 92 novels, collected together for the first time, each with individual contents tables * Many rare novels, available in no other collection * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many of the novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork * ALL of the shorter fiction, including many rare tales available nowhere else * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Henty’s non-fiction - spend hours exploring the author’s entire oeuvre * Features a bonus biography by Henty’s friend and fellow author, George Manville Fenn - discover Henty’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels A SEARCH FOR A SECRET ALL BUT LOST OUT ON THE PAMPAS THE YOUNG FRANC-TIREURS THE YOUNG BUGLERS THE CORNET OF HORSE IN TIMES OF PERIL FACING DEATH WINNING HIS SPURS FRIENDS THOUGH DIVIDED JACK ARCHER UNDER DRAKE’S FLAG BY SHEER PLUCK WITH CLIVE IN INDIA IN FREEDOM’S CAUSE ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND TRUE TO THE OLD FLAG THE YOUNG COLONISTS THE DRAGON AND THE RAVEN FOR NAME AND FAME THE LION OF THE NORTH THROUGH THE FRAY THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE A FINAL RECKONING THE YOUNG CARTHAGINIAN WITH WOLFE IN CANADA BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE FOR THE TEMPLE GABRIEL ALLEN M. P. IN THE REIGN OF TERROR ORANGE AND GREEN STURDY AND STRONG CAPTAIN BAYLEY’S HEIR THE CAT OF BUBASTES THE CURSE OF CARNE’S HOLD THE LION OF ST. MARK BY PIKE AND DYKE ONE OF THE 28TH WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA THE BOY KNIGHT BY ENGLAND’S AID BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST CHAPTER OF ADVENTURES A HIDDEN FOE MAORI AND SETTLER THE DASH FOR KHARTOUM HELD FAST FOR ENGLAND REDSKIN AND COWBOY BERIC THE BRITON CONDEMNED AS A NIHILIST IN GREEK WATERS RUJUB, THE JUGGLER DOROTHY’S DOUBLE A JACOBITE EXILE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW’S EVE THROUGH THE SIKH WAR IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES WHEN LONDON BURNED WOMAN OF THE COMMUNE WULF THE SAXON A KNIGHT OF THE WHITE CROSS THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS THE TIGER OF MYSORE AT AGINCOURT ON THE IRRAWADDY THE QUEEN’S CUP WITH COCHRANE THE DAUNTLESS COLONEL THORNDYKE’S SECRET A MARCH ON LONDON WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA AT ABOUKIR AND ACRE BOTH SIDES THE BORDER THE LOST HEIR UNDER WELLINGTON’S COMMAND IN THE HANDS OF THE CAVE DWELLERS NO SURRENDER! A ROVING COMMISSION WON BY THE SWORD IN THE IRISH BRIGADE JOHN HAWKE’S FORTUNE OUT WITH GARIBALDI WITH BULLER IN NATAL AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET TO HERAT AND CABUL WITH ROBERTS TO PRETORIA THE TREASURE OF THE INCAS WITH KITCHENER IN THE SOUDAN WITH THE BRITISH LEGION THROUGH THREE CAMPAIGNS WITH THE ALLIES TO PEKIN BY CONDUCT AND COURAGE The Shorter Fiction AN EDITOR’S YARNS YARNS ON THE BEACH THE PLAGUE SHIP TALES OF DARING AND DANGER STORIES FROM ‘THE BOY’S OWN’ THE RANCH IN THE VALLEY THE GOLDEN CANYON THE STONE CHEST BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY DASH AND DARING BRAINS AND BRAVERY HAZARD AND HEROISM IN THE HANDS OF THE MALAYS STEADY AND STRONG AMONG MALAY PIRATES A SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES UNCOLLECTED STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction THE MARCH TO MAGDALA THE MARCH TO COOMASSIE THOSE OTHER ANIMALS QUEEN VICTORIA The Biography GEORGE ALFRED HENTY by George Manville Fenn Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
