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Récits de femmes pendant la guerre franco-prussienne
Quatre femmes, Louise Swanton-Belloc, Adelaïde de Montgolfier, Bessie Rayner Parkes toutes trois écrivaines, et Adélaïde Ballot, peintre, se sont trouvées mêlées de manière imprévue à une guerre qui a submergé la France. Elles avaient cru que la France et la Prusse étaient trop " civilisées " pour s'affronter militairement. Deux ont vécu le drame du siège de Paris, tandis que les autres se sont réfugiées en Grande-Bretagne. Leurs lettres et mémoires apportent un témoignage précieux sur leur vie quotidienne.
Postcards
E. Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, winner of the 1993 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico and ends, today, in California, with Blood homeless and near mad. Along the way, he must live a hundred lives to survive, mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils and trapping, prospecting for uranium, and ranching. In his absence, disaster befalls his family; greatest among their terrible losses are the hard-won values of endurance and pride that were the legacy of farm people rooted in generations of intimacy with soil, weather, plants, and seasons. Postcards chronicles the lives of the rural and the dispossessed and charts their territory with the historical verisimilitude and writerly prowess of Cather, Dreiser, and Faulkner. It is a new American classic.
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L’École d’art
Dans la foulée des événements qui ont souligné le 50e anniversaire de l’École d’art, cet ouvrage retrace l’histoire de cette véritable institution dans le paysage des arts, de l’enseignement, de la recherche, de la création et de la ville de Québec.
From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus
This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s – the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have consistently been blamed on the policies of the Bolsheviks and Stalin. According to this view, the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against each republic. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus questions this assumption by examining three case studies: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh are placed within...
Roadscapes, a Sociopoetics of the Road
How do we imagine the road? If the road inspires freewheeling adventure in the spirit of Jack Kerouac, it can also be a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights the work of artists, writers, and filmmakers from the Anglophone world who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape. The road reveals our sense of curiosity, our anxieties, our sorrows, and our disquiet with modern technology or the power dynamics of class and gender. This volume, with a foreword by Jeremy Bassetti, host of the award-winning podcast “Travel Writing World,” brings together international researchers and writers, including two original poems by the French-New Zealander poet, Lynette Thorstensen. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in 20th and 21st century art and culture, particularly road narratives.
