Download or read book Histoires et l gendes de la Rome antique myst rieuse written by Bernard Leuilliot and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome antique written by Jean-Marie Pailler and published by EDITIONS JEAN-PAUL GISSEROT. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquérants et organisateurs, les romains ont su assimiler les apports des peuples soumis, notamment ceux de la civilisation grecque, pour les diffuser jusqu'aux frontières de leur immense empire.Sans dissimuler les aspects sombres d'une histoire pleine de fureur, de souffrances et d'inégalités, ce livre fait justice des clichés sur les romains " éternels décadents " (néron !) ou " vaillants guerriers, mais au fond si stupides " (astérix. ). en rappelant ce qu'ils ont pensé et raconté d'eux-mêmes et des autres, en mettant en lumière leur capacité permanente d'intégration des étrangers vaincus à la citoyenneté romaine, jean-marie pailler a cherché à fournir les points de repère et les éléments de réflexion sur ce qu'est, pour notre temps, l'héritage antique de la rome païenne et chrétienne. -- [4ème de couverture].
Download or read book R cits et l gendes de la Rome antique written by Héloïse De Mont-Rachais and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plus on remonte dans le passé, plus l'histoire se pare des mystères et des merveilles du conte et plus ses personnages ressemblent à des héros d'épopée. Celle des anciens Romains, qui prétendaient descendre des dieux, est une véritable légende où se croisent des souverains extravagants, des consuls vertueux, des généraux de génie et des prêtres rusés... De Romulus, le fondateur de Rome, à Romulus Augustulus, le dernier empereur d'Occident, des sénateurs aux esclaves, ces Récits et légendes de la Rome antique vous feront découvrir la vie quotidienne des Romains et leur mythologie ; ils vous permettront de comprendre comment, depuis une bourgade bâtie sur des marais insalubres, des légions partirent à la conquête d'un monde dont nous sommes les héritiers.
Download or read book La Rome antique v rit s et l gendes written by Dimitri Tilloi-d'Ambrosi and published by Perrin. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les coulisses du plus grand des empires. L'Empire romain n'a cessé de fasciner par sa longévité, plus de mille ans, et l'étendue de son territoire, de l'Atlantique à l'Euphrate. Pourtant, la littérature, la peinture et les péplums ont entretenu de nombreux clichés à son sujet. Loin de la caricature d'empereurs fous et tyranniques, de féroces soldats patrouillant dans l'Empire, d'individus oisifs dans l'attente de pain et de jeux, le secret de sa puissance réside dans l'adoption du mode de vie romain par tous, y compris dans les provinces conquises. À mille lieues du tableau d'une société cruelle et soumise au vice, Rome repose sur des normes morales strictes. Mais il reste à s'interroger sur leur nature et leurs limites. La république était-elle une démocratie ? L'empereur était-il tout puissant ? Néron a-t-il brûlé Rome ? Les orgies ont-elles existé ? Les femmes étaient-elles émancipées ? Les Romains étaient-ils de grands bâtisseurs ?... L'auteur apporte des réponses claires et nuancées à toutes ces questions.
Download or read book Histoire de la Rome antique written by Lucien Jerphagnon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Histoire de la Rome antique written by Lucien Jerphagnon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beauvoir in Time written by Meryl Altman and published by Value Inquiry Book. This book was released on 2020 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of her writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing Beauvoir is still good to think with today"--
Download or read book The Republican Alternative written by André Holenstein and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
Download or read book Instigations written by Ezra Pound and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) was an American poet and harsh critic following World War I. Pound was also a key contributor to the Modernist movement. One of Pound's most famous works is Instigations which is a series of essays critiquing a variety of writers and books.
Download or read book Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society written by Jeremy Bernstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world’s most renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this diverse collection of essays, he reflects on their work, their personal relationships, their motives, and their contributions. Even for those people he writes about that he did not know personally, he provides important insights into their lives and work, and questions their character, their decisions, and the lives they led. In the first three essays, Professor Bernstein looks at economic theory and how some physicists who developed interesting economic models based on derivatives and hedge funds almost led to the country into bankruptcy. In later essays, he discusses a suspect visit to Poland by the great Heisenberg during the Nazi era, a visit that there is almost nothing written about. Included also are essays on ancient languages and a nuclear weapons program in South Africa that was supposedly dismantled. In one particularly humorous essay, he describes how an ill-conceived manned spaceship to be powered by an atomic bomb was being developed by some of the country’s most powerful intellects. The project never got off the ground. Dipping into these pages is like rummaging around in the mind of a genius who has a potpourri of interests and an abundance of fascinating experiences. Bernstein has not only rubbed elbows with some of the finest minds in world, he has worked and played with them. He has sometimes mourned with them and laughed at them. His sharp wit and even sharper analysis make for a fascinating read.
Download or read book The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry written by Ernest Fenollosa and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound’s understanding—it is fair to say, his appropriation—of the text. Fenollosa’s manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North America and East Asia. Pound’s editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa’s encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa’s important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound’s deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa’s sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the developmentof Fenollosa’s ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.
Download or read book The Apocryphal New Testament written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking Black written by Daniel Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invisible Relations written by Elizabeth Susan Wahl and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how representations of intimacy between women included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression.
Download or read book The Essential Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.
Download or read book The ballad poetry of Ireland written by Charles Gavan Duffy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Romantic Agony written by Mario Praz and published by [London] : Collins. This book was released on 1956 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mario Paz has, in the Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is the analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may ve been transient, but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professo Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility.
