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Critical Survey of Poetry: European Poets; January 2011, p1-4
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Critical Survey of Poetry: European Poets; January 2011, p1-4
A biographical essay about Alfred de Musset , with brief critical analysis of major works.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
A biographical essay about Alfred de Musset . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Destins De Femmes : French Women Writers, 1750-1850
John Claiborne Isbell;John Claiborne Isbell
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during t...
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Destins De Femmes : French Women Writers, 1750-1850
2023
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. Each of the book's thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women's rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women's contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers'lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period. This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women's writing , and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.
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French literature--19th century--Bio-bibliography - Romanticism--France--Bio-bibliography - French literature--Women authors--Bio-bibliography - French literature--18th century--Bio-bibliographyContent provider:
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature & Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118. 3/1/2006, p79-93. 15p.
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature & Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118. 3/1/2006, p79-93. 15p.
Presents “ALFRED DE MUSSET ” from the journal “Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature & Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118” by Various.
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Femmes de spectacle au XIXe siècle
Valentina Ponzetto;Florence Fix;Valentina Ponzetto;Florence Fix
Quelle est la place des femmes dans l'industrie du spectacle du XIXe siècle au-delà de...
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Femmes de spectacle au XIXe siècle
2022; Vol. 00042
Quelle est la place des femmes dans l'industrie du spectacle du XIXe siècle au-delà des métiers de performance très exposés qu'exercent les actrices, chanteuses, et danseuses? Comment les femmes qui dirigent une salle ou une troupe peuvent-elles se frayer un chemin dans un milieu socio-économique considéré principalement comme une affaire d'hommes? Comment être autrice, organisatrice de tournées et de programmations, critique littéraire, écuyère ou maîtresse de ballet? Dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et internationale, ce volume propose des interprétations et des réponses à ces enjeux qui embrassent le monde du spectacle dans sa diversité et sa complexité. Les contributrices proposent de jouer au féminin l'adaptation à un milieu socio-professionnel masculin, entre défi des préjugés et mimétisme, censure, voire autocensure, et affirmation de soi, utilisation avisée des aléas de la vie familiale et professionnelle et création de nouveaux réseaux.
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Women dramatists--France--History--19th century - Women in the theater--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
Garcés Manzanera, Aitor;Ould García, Omar Salem;Flores Borjabad, Salud Adel...
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de inf...
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El devenir de la lingüística y la cultura: un estudio interdisciplinar sobre lengua, literatura y traducción.
2022
Todo ser vivo necesita interactuar con el medio que lo rodea, generando un tipo de información que lo lleva a crear un acto de comunicación. Así, se desarrollan una serie de lenguajes que los llevan a comunicarse con la comunidad. Por ejemplo, en el caso de los animales se puede observar cómo emiten diferentes sonidos para realizar cualquier tipo de acción o, incluso, para advertir de cualquier peligro a su alrededor.En el caso de los seres humanos, desde nuestros orígenes, hemos generado gestos y expresiones que varían de un lugar a otro, así como también hemos elaborado sistemas de comunicación basados en señales para poder comunicarnos. No obstante, en el caso de los seres huma-nos, todo esto va más allá, en tanto que hemos sido capaces de desarrollar un sistema de comunicación verbal y escrito, otorgándole convenciones que varían de un lugar a otro. Siguiendo esta línea, nuestra forma de comunicación ha ido más allá de la simbología, hasta tal punto de elaborar un sistema de símbolos sonoros y gráficos que se articulan de diferentes formas con el fin de elaborar un sistema complejo de estructuras que nos llevan a comentar nuestro presente, pasado y futuro, lo que se ha denominado lengua. Además de todo esto, hay que tener en cuenta el factor geográfico, puesto que no se puede hablar en exclusiva de una única lengua. En este contexto, la lengua o las lenguas va-rían en función de los fenómenos socioculturales que la rodean, es decir, existe una relación intrínseca entre lengua, lenguaje y sociedad, teniendo en cuenta sus usos y el contexto en el que se desenvuelven.
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik;Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type c...
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
2021; Vol. 00001
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type couper court, dans lesquels un verbe est combiné avec un adjectif à fonction adverbiale. Ordonnées alphabétiquement, les 2 600 entrées du dictionnaire vont de abaisser bas à voter utile. Elles sont attestées par quelque 12 000 citations couvrant l'histoire de la langue française, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. « Expressions savoureuses » selon Lucien Tesnière, les adjectifs-adverbes constituent une ressource stylistique précieuse tant en littérature que dans la publicité et au quotidien. Ce dictionnaire fait ainsi la part belle au plaisir de la langue. Élaboré à partir de quelque 70 publications dédiées à la morphologie et à la syntaxe de l'adjectif-adverbe dans la Romania, il combine de façon unique documentation lexicographique et recherche linguistique.
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Construyendo espacios: la ciudad iberoamericana virreinal : Teoría y estudios de caso
Jesús Paniagua Pérez;Daniele Arciello;Jesús Paniagua Pérez;Daniele Arciello
En las últimas décadas los estudios sobre la ciudad hispanoamericana del periodo de do...
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Construyendo espacios: la ciudad iberoamericana virreinal : Teoría y estudios de caso
2020
En las últimas décadas los estudios sobre la ciudad hispanoamericana del periodo de dominación española se han visto incrementados con múltiples publicaciones en las que se abordan diferentes aspectos, sin que el tema acabe por agotarse y continúe deparando nuevos y sugerentes enfoques y análisis. Esta obra pretende contribuir al desarrollo de tales estudios a través de la incorporación de diversos temas y con un planteamiento interdisciplinar, como es tradicional en las investigaciones del Instituto de Humanismo y Tradición Clásica, que van de la filosofía a la literatura, pasando por la historia, la geografía y el arte. Varias localidades iberoamericanas, desde Nueva España hasta los virreinatos del Perú y Río de la Plata, se ven retratadas en este trabajo desde diferentes perspectivas.
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Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle : Traduction, transmission, transposition
Thomas Klinkert;Gisèle Séginger;Thomas Klinkert;Gisèle Séginger
With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis prese...
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Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle : Traduction, transmission, transposition
2020; Vol. 00077
With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.
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Literature--Translations--Congresses - Literature and science--Congresses - French literature--19th century--History and criticism--Congresses - Biology in literature--CongressesContent provider:
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Romantik zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der Romanischen Literaturen des 19. Jahrhunderts
Ottmar Ette;Ottmar Ette
Die transareal ausgelegte Vorlesung unternimmt den Versuch, nach der (vielleicht schon...
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Romantik zwischen zwei Welten : Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu den Hauptwerken der Romanischen Literaturen des 19. Jahrhunderts
2021
Die transareal ausgelegte Vorlesung unternimmt den Versuch, nach der (vielleicht schon verlorenen) Einheit der Romantik hinter der Vielgestaltigkeit romantischer Diskurse zwischen zwei Welten, Europa und Amerika, zu fragen. Gab es eine Romantik oder gab es deren viele? Was zeichnet die Literaturen der Romantik in Frankreich und Deutschland, in Spanien und Italien, im Norden und vor allem im Süden des amerikanischen Doppelkontinents aus? Welche Schreibformen entwickelt eine Dichterin wie Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, die zwischen Spanien und Kuba pendelt; welche Vermittlungsmöglichkeiten sieht Germaine de Staël im deutsch-französischen Dialog; in welcher Beziehung steht die Dichtung Baudelaires zu den Schriften Poes; und was bestimmte die Rezeption deutscher Romantik in Mexiko? Die Vorlesung gibt den Blick darauf frei, in welchem Maße im Jahrhundert der Nationalismen inter- und transkulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Ländern und Kontinenten bestanden, und hinterfragt die Monologe nationalliterarischer Ausrichtung.
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
Jonathan P. Ribner;Jonathan P. Ribner
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religi...
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
2022
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation's demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement—an urgent theme in the present moment—the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies.
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Romanticism--France - Romanticism in art - Loss (Psychology) in art - Arts and society--France--History--19th century - Arts, French--19th century--Themes, motivesContent provider:
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An Outline of Romanticism in the West
John Claiborne Isbell;John Claiborne Isbell
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas...
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An Outline of Romanticism in the West
2022
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it. Discussing seminal Romantic texts such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or Germaine de Staël's Corinne ou l'Italie, Isbell provides a foundation through which to investigate core concepts, such as the continuum of Romance, the Romantic hero, and Romantic literature's characteristic repudiation of its own Romanticism. Unusually for a single-author monograph, the book includes both published and unpublished material covering Romantic creation across Europe and the two Americas. Identifying Romanticism as an international movement, Isbell seeks to emphasise a theme frequently ignored by many academics: the roots of Romanticism, and its variations, as a national art. His arguments are supported by extensive interrogations of the political and historical contexts that moulded the outlooks of the writers and artists central to the period. An Outline of Romanticism in the West underlines the interplay between nationalism, history, and artistic inspiration, and will therefore be of value to students and scholars of literature and history, as well as to general readers with an interest in Romanticism in the West.
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
Miloslav Rechcigl;Miloslav Rechcigl
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is ...
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
2019; Vol. Volume II
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution
Gesine Müller;Gesine Müller
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the S...
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Crossroads of Colonial Cultures : Caribbean Literatures in the Age of Revolution
2018
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland's ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – in contrast to France's strong presence and binding force – is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence.The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012
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Caribbean literature (Spanish)--Social aspects - Imperialism in literature - Literature and society--Caribbean Area--History--19th century - Caribbean literature--19th century--History and criticism - Social change--Caribbean Area--History--19th century - Caribbean literature (French)--Social aspects - Caribbean literature--Colonial influenceContent provider:
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The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms
Gianna Zocco;Gianna Zocco
The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of ...
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The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms
2020; Vol. 00004
The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which were originally viewed as the ‘places'where certain arguments could be found, but later came to represent the arguments or intellectual themes themselves. Another feature shared by most of the articles is the tendency of ‘undeclared thematology', which not only reflects the persistence of the charge of positivism, but also shows that most scholars prefer to locate themselves within more specific, often interdisciplinary fields of literary study. In this sense, this volume does not only prove the ongoing relevance of traditional fields such as rhetoric and thematology, but provides contributions to currently flourishing research areas, among them literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.
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Political Reason and the Language of Change : Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
Adriana Luna-Fabritius;Ere Nokkala;Marten Seppel;Keith Tribe;Adriana Luna-F...
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in earl...
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Political Reason and the Language of Change : Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
2023
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that'progressive'change was the outcome of'reforms'.'Reform'today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures.'Improvement'has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which'reform'is oriented. But the language of reform is today used of historical personalities and movements that did not themselves use the term, and who in many cases were not necessarily seeking the progressive change that we would understand today. The activities of'reform'were embedded in contemporary politics, and while'improvement'was part of a contemporary vocabulary, its real presence has been obscured by the range of natural languages in which it was expressed. Contributors to this volume seek to establish what was meant by contemporary usage. Bringing together scholars of Russia, Southern, Western, Central and Northern Europe, this collection sheds new light on both common and divergent features of a political process too often treated as a uniform movement towards modernity. This volume is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Enlightenment studies, intellectual history, and conceptual history in early modern Europe. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Civic improvement--Europe - Social problems--Europe - Enlightenment--EuropeContent provider:
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The Red Countess : Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
Hermynia Zur Mühlen;Lionel Gossman;Hermynia Zur Mühlen;Lionel Gossman
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur...
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The Red Countess : Select Autobiographical and Fictional Writing of Hermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951)
2018
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. She translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers'Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese. Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951. This new, expanded edition contains: Zur Mühlen's autobiographical memoir, The End and the Beginning; The editor's detailed notes on the persons and events mentioned in the autobiography; A selection of Zur Mühlen's short stories and two fairy tales; A synopsis of Zur Mühlen's untranslated novel Our Daughters the Nazi Girls; An essay by the Editor on Zur Mühlen's life and work; A bibliography of Zur Mühlen's novels in English translation; A portfolio of selected illustrations of her work by George Grosz and Heinrich Vogeler; A free online supplement with additional original material
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Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries : Travels in Farangi Space
Vahid Vahdat;Vahid Vahdat
In the midst of Europe's nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked o...
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Occidentalist Perceptions of European Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Diaries : Travels in Farangi Space
2017
In the midst of Europe's nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan – a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical spaces. Determined to learn the secret of Farangestan's advancements, the travelers kept detailed records of their observations. These diaries mapped an aspirational path to progress for curious Iranian audiences who were eager to change the course of history. Two hundred years later, Travels in Farangi Space unpacks these writings to reveal a challenging new interpretation of Iran's experience of modernity. This book opens the Persian travelers'long-forgotten suitcases, and analyzes the descriptions contained within to gain insight into Occidentalist perspectives on modern Europe. By carefully tracing the physical and mental journeys of these travelers, the book paints a picture of European architecture that is nothing like what one would expect.
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Iranians--Diaries - East and West - Space (Architecture)--Europe--Foreign public opinion, Iranian - Travelers' writings, Persian--19th century--History and criticism - Iranians--Travel--Europe--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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On Cyprian Norwid. Studies and Essays : Vol. 2. Aspects
Edyta Chlebowska;Agata Brajerska-Mazur;Edyta Chlebowska;Agata Brajerska-Maz...
The book is the second volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the wor...
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On Cyprian Norwid. Studies and Essays : Vol. 2. Aspects
2021; Vol. 00037
The book is the second volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors. The impact of Norwid's oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the moral and spiritual condition of man or his place in the world and history, and seeks to answer universal questions. The book contains an extensive selection of contributions by eminent researchers, which represent different approaches to the poet's work. They cover various areas of research, including interpretation, thematology, genology, and editing.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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From Goethe to Gundolf : Essays on German Literature and Culture
Roger Paulin;Roger Paulin
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Rog...
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From Goethe to Gundolf : Essays on German Literature and Culture
2021
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.
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German literature--19th century--History and criticism - German literature--18th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Juristische Kommentare: Ein internationaler Vergleich
David Kästle-Lamparter;Nils Jansen;Reinhard Zimmermann;David Kästle-Lampart...
In der Rechtsvergleichung gilt der juristische Kommentar zumeist als typisch deutsches...
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Juristische Kommentare: Ein internationaler Vergleich
2020; Vol. 00133
In der Rechtsvergleichung gilt der juristische Kommentar zumeist als typisch deutsches Publikationsformat. Doch ist das nur die halbe Wahrheit. Welche Verbreitung und Bedeutung haben Kommentare in anderen Rechtsordnungen? Und wie ist es um Kommentare in der transnationalen Rechtsliteratur bestellt? Die vorliegenden Beiträge kartieren die Literaturlandschaften in unterschiedlichen Ländern und analysieren die Publikationsformen im Kontext der jeweiligen Rechtskultur und Rechtsgeschichte. Der internationale Vergleich deckt dabei eine überraschende Diversität von Kommentarformen und Kommentarkulturen auf - blühende Landschaften werden ebenso sichtbar wie ausgesprochene Kommentarwüsten. Zahlreiche Befunde liegen quer zur üblichen Einteilung in Rechtskreise oder Rechtsfamilien. Der Band schärft damit den Blick für internationale Verbindungslinien ebenso wie für kontingente nationale Entwicklungen.
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Jurisprudence - Law--Interpretation and construction - Law--Study and teaching - Legal literatureContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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From Darkness to Light : Writers in Museums 1798-1898
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi;Katherine Manthorne;Rosella Mamoli Zorzi;Katherine Man...
From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lightin...
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From Darkness to Light : Writers in Museums 1798-1898
2019
From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibition spaces in America, Japan, and Western Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto's unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epic American painting on tour, museum illumination in the work of Henry James, and lighting alterations at Chatsworth (to name only a few topics) this book is a treasure trove of illuminating contributions. The collection is at once a refreshing insight for the enthusiastic museum-goer, who is brought to an awareness of the exhibit in its immediate environment, and a wide-ranging scholarly compendium for the professional who seeks to proceed in their academic or curatorial work with a more enlightened sense of the lighted space.
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Authors--18th century--Attitudes - Authors--19th century--Attitudes - Art--Exhibition techniques--History - Museums--Lighting--History - Art museums--Lighting--History - Museum visitors--Attitudes - Art museum visitors--Attitudes - Art--Exhibition techniquesContent provider:
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
Claire Elizabeth Campbell;Edward MacDonald;Brian Payne;Claire Elizabeth Cam...
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an eco...
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
2019; Vol. 00006
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history – marine and terrestrial – of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays'defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. Contributors include Rainer Baehre (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Bouchard (Folger Institute), Claire Campbell (Bucknell University), Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), Edward MacDonald (University of Prince Edward Island), Matthew McKenzie (University of Connecticut), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Brian Payne (Bridgewater State University), John G. Reid (St. Mary's University), and Daniel Soucier (University of Maine).
