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Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.
Essays on French poets of the twentieth-century discusses collective creations, open-ended storytelling, Cubism, surrealism, avant-garde poetry, symbolism, as well as reflections on the various creative processes employed by these French poets.
What is the significance of the body? What might phenomenology contribute to a theological account of the body? And what is gained by prolonging the overlooked dialogue between St. John Paul II and Emmanuel Levinas? Nigel Zimmermann answers these questions through the agreements and the tensions between two of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. John Paul II, the Polish pope, philosopher, and theologian, and Emmanuel Levinas, the French-Jewish philosopher of Lithuanian heritage, were provocative thinkers who courageously faced and challenged the assumptions of their age. Both held the human person in high regard and did their thinking with constant reference to God and to t...
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"L'art contemporain utilise régulièrement le patrimoine chrétien dans ses créations. De leur côté, nombre de communautés religieuses sollicitent aujourd'hui des artistes pour renouveler leur expression spirituelle. Cet ouvrage écrit par des universitaires de différentes disciplines issus d'Allemagne, de France et de Suisse propose des réflexions sur les influences respectives de ces trois milieux d'un point de vue théorique et pratique. Dans une première partie, des spécialistes de la Bible indiquent les ressources symboliques et artistiques des textes sacrés qui donnent à voir largement plus que ce qu'une lecture superficielle ne révèle. Puis, des philosophes réfléchissen...
Ce volume présente vingt-trois essais consacrés à l'art français et francophone des vingt-cinq dernières années et propose des analyses critiques d'une cinquantaine d'artistes majeurs qui travaillent sur des modes richement variés. The volume offers 23 new critical essays on contemporary French and francophone art, dealing with some fifty major artists working in a wide range of mediums.
"Deux jours de colloque aa l'Universitae de Cergy-Pontoise en mai 2005"--P. [vii].
Until well into the 20th century, explicit sexual allusions were a taboo subject in European literature and art. The contributions gathered in this volume explore the multi-faceted, oftentimes ambivalent functions of the tear which can serve as an expression of emotions, as an aesthetic element, or as a signal of subtle erotic tension. The authors analyze subtexts in prominent and less prominent French prose texts of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, which have mostly been overlooked in previous research.