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Memory and Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

Memory and Desire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

This study challenges the conventional view of R�tif de la Bretonne as a chronicler of eighteenth-century France and notorious exponent of 'la litt�rature galante', to provide both students and scholars with a fresh analysis focusing on two themes -- autobiography and utopianism -- which feature prominently in his writing. It suggests that each is the product of similar impulses, reflecting common polarities between public and private, self and others, past and future.In tracing R�tif's persistent but frustrated attempts to reconcile the conflicting elements of the world he inhabits -- rural and urban, old and new, stable and changing -- this volume analyses the failure of his utopian dream of a well-ordered and harmonious society. By exploring his absorption in the autobiographical project, and in particular Monsieur Nicolas ou le coeur humain d�voil�, it offers an interpretation of his work as a sustained reflection on selfhood and on the power of memory which enables R�tif to create, within the confines of the text, a utopian space where self and world are reconciled, and time and space no longer count.

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1206
Implementation of Resources Planning Act
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1196
Cultures of Exile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Cultures of Exile

Exile is a dominant theme of the times. The essays in this volume explore issues such as remembering & forgetting, trauma & nostalgia, time & space, social & sexual exclusion in relation to visual media & new technologies, cinema & the visual arts.

Idaho Wilderness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1368
Enacting Brittany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 543

Enacting Brittany

Efforts to preserve, display and promote Breton cultural differences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked a significant advance in heritage tourism, and a departure from what is commonly perceived to be a French intolerance of cultural diversity within its borders. This book explores the means by which key actors - middle class associations, businesses, governmental bodies, cultural intermediaries - pursued tourist development in the region and the effect this had on Breton cultural identification. Beyond those interested in the history of French tourism, this study will also be invaluable to historians and social scientists concerned with understanding the dynamics involved in the emergence of mass tourism, its causes and consequences in particular locales in the present as well as in the past.

Fierce Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Fierce Love

The memoir of Christian musician Adrian Snell. Known for his songs "The Passion", "The Cry" and "Fierce Love".

Fathers of the Lega
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Fathers of the Lega

This book investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic’s oldest surviving political party, the populist far right Lega (Nord), tracing its origins to post-war Italy. The author examines two main case studies: the Movements for Regional Autonomy (MRAs), the Piedmontese Movement for Regional Autonomy (the MARP) and the Bergamascan Movement for Autonomy (the MAB), both of which formed a first wave of post-war populist regionalism from 1955 until 1960. The regionalist leagues which later emerged in both Piedmont and Lombardy in the 1980s – and which would later form part of the Lega Nord – represented in many ways a revival of the MRAs’ populist regionalist discourse and ide...