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Book Le grand troupeau

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Giono
  • Publisher : Editions Gallimard
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN : 9782070367603
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Le grand troupeau written by Jean Giono and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 1972 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La quatrième de couverture indique : "Un curé traverse la route en portant une pendule. Un canon anglais passe au grand galop, les chevaux fouettés par les artilleurs français. Un colonel sans capote et nu-tête fait ses grands pas dans l'herbe. De sa main gauche il tient une boîte de sardines ouverte. Il trempe le pain dans l'huile et il pompe à pleine bouche. Un officier anglais, penché derrière un arbre, allume sa pipe à l'abri. Tout ça s'en va vers le mont Cassel."

Book Le Grand Troupeau

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Le Grand Troupeau written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fiche de Lecture

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Fiche de Lecture written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Le Grand troupeau de Jean Giono! Retrouvez l'essentiel de l'uvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée, avec un résumé, une étude des personnages, des clés de lecture et des pistes de réflexion. Rédigée de manière claire et accessible, la fiche de lecture propose d'abord un résumé intégral du roman, puis s'intéresse aux personnages de Joseph, de Julia, d'Olivier, de Madeleine et du berger Thomas. On aborde ensuite la construction du roman, qui se divise en trois parties alternant elles-mêmes divers récits, puis la correspondance entre humanité et animalité, avant de commenter la portée de l'uvre, qui constitue à la fois un réquisitoire contre la guerre et un vibrant hymne à la vie. Enfin, les pistes de réflexion, sous forme de questions, vous permettront d'aller plus loin dans votre étude. Une analyse littéraire de référence pour mieux lire et comprendre le livre!

Book Sites of Memory  Sites of Mourning

Download or read book Sites of Memory Sites of Mourning written by Jay Winter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 'collective remembrance' of the Great War reassesses one of the critical episodes in twentieth-century cultural history.

Book No Man s Land

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  • Author : Pete Ayrton
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-09-15
  • ISBN : 1605987093
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book No Man s Land written by Pete Ayrton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from D. H. Lawrence to Siegfried Sassoon, the literature generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal tragedies, the horror of life in the trenches, and the grand farce of the first industrial war.Featuring forty-seven writers from twenty different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, No Man's Land is a truly international anthology of World War I fiction.Work by Siegfried Sassoon, Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis's Life in the Tomb, Raymond Escholier's Mahmadou Fofana, and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone. No Man's Land is a brilliant memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event.

Book

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : TheBookEdition
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2953538771
  • Pages : 404 pages

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Book The Unspeakable

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  • Author : Amy L. Hubbell
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2013-10-03
  • ISBN : 1443853321
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book The Unspeakable written by Amy L. Hubbell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art is situated at the crossroads of language, culture and genre; it contends that suffering transcends time, space and cultural specificity. Even when extreme trauma is silenced, it often still emerges in surprising and painful ways. This volume draws together examples from throughout the Francophone world, including countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Rwanda, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, New Caledonia, Quebec and France, and across genres such as autobiography, poetry, theater, film, fiction and visual art to provide a cohesive analysis of the representation of trauma. In addition to the survivors’ expression of trauma, the witnesses and receivers are also taken into account. By gathering studies that explore diverse bodily and psychological traumas through tropes such as repetition, silence and working-through, it tackles ethical responsibility and interrogates how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality through the use of imagination. The aim of this volume is not to question if suffering is representable, but rather to examine to what extent art surpasses its own limitations and goes straight to its essence. The Unspeakable hopes to provide models for the cultural translation of trauma, because, when represented and released from silence and isolation, trauma can give way to the arduous process of healing.

Book The Embattled Self

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  • Author : Leonard V. Smith
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 0801471206
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Embattled Self written by Leonard V. Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand—rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. Eventually, a story revolving around tragedy and the soldier as victim came to dominate—even to silence—other types of accounts. In thematic chapters, Leonard V. Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of trauma prevailed by the 1930s. Smith canvasses the vast literature of nonfictional and fictional testimony from French soldiers to understand how and why the "embattled self" changed over time. In the process, he undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period. The book is important reading not only for traditional historians of warfare but also for scholars in a variety of fields who think critically about trauma and the use of personal testimony in literary and historical studies.

Book The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier  Modern Mourning  and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body

Download or read book The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Modern Mourning and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body written by Laura Wittman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I slutningen af 1. Verdenskrig indførte flere krigsførende lande et nyt hidtil ukendt ritual. Kroppen af en anonym soldat, død på slagmarken, blev begravet i "den ukendte soldats grav" for at symbolisere den fælles sorg over slagmarkens voldsomme traumer. Ved at undersøge hvordan forskellige lande ofte med vidt forskellig politisk og kulturel baggrund har anvendt "Den ukendte Soldat" symbolsk, hævder forfatteren, at der er skabt en ny måde at udtrykke fælles national sorg på.

Book Recueil de diuerses po  sies sur le trespas de Henry le Grand     et sur le sacre et couronnement de Louis XIII     Par G  Du peyrat   With an engraved portrait of Marie de M  dicis

Download or read book Recueil de diuerses po sies sur le trespas de Henry le Grand et sur le sacre et couronnement de Louis XIII Par G Du peyrat With an engraved portrait of Marie de M dicis written by Guillaume DUPEYRAT and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dying for France

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  • Author : Ian Germani
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2023-03-15
  • ISBN : 0228016363
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Dying for France written by Ian Germani and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century Western attitudes toward the soldier’s death have undergone a remarkable transformation. Widely accepted at the time of the First World War – when nearly ten million soldiers died in uniform – as a redemptive sacrifice on behalf of the nation, the soldier’s death is increasingly regarded as an unacceptable tragedy. In Dying for France Ian Germani considers this transformation in the context of the history of France over the expanse of five centuries, from the Renaissance to the present. Blending military history with the history of culture and mentalities, Germani explores key episodes in the history of France’s wars to show how patriotic models of the soldier’s death eclipsed those inspired by the aristocratic code of honour, before themselves giving way to disillusioned representations. First-hand testimony of soldiers, surgeons, and others provides the basis for vivid descriptions of how a soldier encountered death, on and away from the battlefield. Works of art and print culture are used to analyze how soldiers’ deaths were represented to the public and to discern how popular attitudes evolved over time. Encompassing France’s major external conflicts and its civil wars, this study also considers the experiences of soldiers recruited from the French colonial empire. Relating changes in the perception of military mortality to broader changes in society’s relationship with death, Dying for France highlights essential turning points in the rise and fall of the patriotic ideal of the soldier’s death.

Book To the slaughterhouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Giono
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book To the slaughterhouse written by Jean Giono and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building Up Aspect

Download or read book Building Up Aspect written by Maria Stambolieva and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the problems of the nature of the category of aspect, its formal expression and its relation to Action modes, to the Aorist/Imperfect and Perfect/Non-Perfect distinctions. The discussion is largely based on data from Bulgarian - a Slavonic language where aspect as a grammatical category systematically coexists not only with verbal prefixation, but also with temporal boundedness, correlation and, in the nominal sphere, definiteness. Cross-language parallels with English and French data and the mapping of Bulgarian structures to notions drawn from the «western» tradition of aspectual study result in the outline of a framework for an integrated study of the expression of aspectuality in languages belonging to different language groups. Refuting existing views of aspect as a «compensatory» phenomenon for nominal definiteness, the book presents arguments in favour of a systematic relation between verbal prefixation and NP quantification in Slavonic languages and of a compositional, syntactic dimension of aspectual analysis.

Book War  Memory  and the Politics of Humor

Download or read book War Memory and the Politics of Humor written by Allen Douglas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of Le Canard Enchaine, the famous French satirical newspaper from its founding during World War I through the 1920s.

Book Authority  Identity and the Social History of the Great War

Download or read book Authority Identity and the Social History of the Great War written by Frans Coetzee and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unprecedented scope and intensity of the First World War has prompted an enormous body of retrospective scholarship. However, efforts to provide a coherent synthesis about the war's impact and significance have remained circumscribed, tending to focus either on the operational outlines of military strategy and tactics or on the cultural legacy of the conflict as transmitted bythe war's most articulate observers. This volume departs from traditional accounts on several scores: by exploring issues barely touched upon in previous works, by deviating from the widespread tendency to treat the experiences of front and homefront isolation, and by employing a thematic treatment that, by considering the construction of authority and identity between 1914 and 1918, illuminates the fundamental question of how individuals, whether in uniform or not, endured the war's intrusion into so many aspects of their public and private lives.

Book Dante s Fame  Abroad  1350 1850

    Book Details:
  • Author : Werner Paul Friederich
  • Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book Dante s Fame Abroad 1350 1850 written by Werner Paul Friederich and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 1950 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Flowers of Evil

Download or read book The Flowers of Evil written by Charles Baudelaire and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.