Download or read book Montaigne written by Philippe Desan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe Desan overturns this long standing myth by showing that Montaigne was constantly connected to and concerned with realizing his political ambitions—and that the literary and philosophical character of the Essays largely depends on them. Desan shows how Montaigne conceived of each edition of the Essays as an indispensable prerequisite to the next stage of his public career. It was only after his political failure that Montaigne took refuge in literature, and even then it was his political experience that enabled him to find the right tone for his genre. The most comprehensive and authoritative biography of Montaigne yet written, this sweeping narrative offers a fascinating new picture of his life and work.
Download or read book French Made Simple written by A. Rubio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is as complete beginner's course in French which covers the requirements of the various GCSE examination syllabuses, and provides a good background to the language for students on RSA and other similar courses. The approach is designed to be of particular value for further education and self-study purposes.
Download or read book Yale French Studies Number 134 written by Jessica Devos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of Yale French Studies both honors and adds to Edwin M. Duval's scholarship on the history and development of French Renaissance literature. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in the poetry and prose of the French Renaissance, a period when literature underwent radical changes. In honor of Duval's literary "sleuthing," the contributors in this issue explore the symmetries, as well as the dissymmetries, the fragility, ambiguities, and contradictions of French Renaissance literary production. This volume addresses evolving literary practices, innovations in genre, and intellectual developments in sixteenth-century France.
Download or read book Hidden Texts Hidden Nation written by Kathryn N Jones and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh and timely ‘European’ perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritized, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.
Download or read book France and the Americas 3 volumes written by Bill Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity. From 17th-century fur traders in Canada to 21st-century peacekeepers in Haiti, from France's decisive role in the Revolutionary War leading to the creation of the United States to recent disagreements over Iraq, France and the Americas charts the history of the inextricable links between France and the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey features an incisive introduction and a chronology of key events, spanning 400 years of France's transatlantic relations. Students of many disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this comprehensive survey, which traces the common themes of both French policy, language, and influence throughout the Americas and the wide-ranging transatlantic influences on contemporary France.
Download or read book Explorations and Encounters in French written by Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia. Conference and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for inclusion in 'Explorations and Encounters in French' bring together many of the current research strands in French Studies today, tapping into current pedagogical trends, analyzing contemporary events in France, examining the Franco-Australian past, while reviewing teaching practice and the culture of teaching.
Download or read book Framing French Culture written by Natalie Edwards and published by University of Adelaide Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time circumscribe the dialectic between presence and absence that is proper to all visual media. Yet, these kinds of re-framing owe their existence to the ruptures and upheavals that marked the demise of certain discursive systems in the past, announcing the emergence of others that were in turn overturned.
Download or read book French Memories of Eighteenth century America written by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book French Romantic Travel Writing written by Christopher W. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering overview of the travel books produced by fourteen French Romantic writers - including Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal, Hugo, Nerval, Sand, Mérimée, Dumas, and Tristan - whose journeys ranged from Peru to Russia and from North America to North Africa and the Near East.
Download or read book France Australe written by Leslie Ronald Marchant and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1982 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed account of all French expeditions to W.A. based on contemporary accounts and documents; includes numerous references to contact with Aborigines with reproductions of many sketches and paintings of Aboriginal camps and activities.
Download or read book The scientific dialogue linking America Asia and Europe between the 12th and the 20thCentury written by Fabio D'Angelo and published by Fabio D'Angelo. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Viaggiatori “Curatele” series seeks to recreate some scientific dialogues, namely meetings, exchanges and acquisition of theoretical and practical scientific knowledge, thus linking the cultural, historical and geographical context of America, Asia, Europe and Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and the 20th century. More specifically, the main objective is to consider the role of travellers as passeurs, as “intermediaries” for building and allowing the circulation of knowhow and the practical and theoretical knowledge from one continent to another.
Download or read book French Trade in Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century written by Edhem Eldem and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth analysis of French trade in Istanbul in the eighteenth century deals extensively with the nature and mechanisms of this trade, Ottoman monetary and financial history, bills of exchange, Ottoman traders and guilds, and Ottoman economic integration with Europe.
Download or read book Beautiful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors written by Craufurd Tait Ramage and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
