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Rendezvous in Venice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Rendezvous in Venice

A man searches for the truth about his uncle's love affair, only to find love himself

The Triumph of Pleasure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The Triumph of Pleasure

With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts

Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.

Women’s Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Women’s Work

Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine internationally renowned scholars in this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800. Through dance, women asserted power in spheres largely dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order in the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a spiritual rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance became an integral part of women’s cultural influence, the writers in this volume explore the meaning of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is truly a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for many centuries past.

Backstage at the Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Backstage at the Revolution

On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history. Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots o...

French 'Classical' Theatre Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

French 'Classical' Theatre Today

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Arising from the activities of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century French Theatre, this volume proposes a selection of eighteen essays by internationally renowned scholars aimed at all those who value and work with the theatre of seventeenth-century France, whether in teaching, research or performance. Frequently seeking out the interfaces of these areas, the essays cover historiography (including that of opera), the theory and practice of textual editing, visualizing – in terms of both theatre architecture and the significance of playtext illustration - , approaches to study and research (including the most recent applications of computer technology), and performance studies which relate the classical canon to contemporary French and other cultures. Always suggesting new directions, challenging the epistemological bases of the very concept of French classical theatre, the essays provide a snapshot of scholarship in the field at the dawn of a new millennium, and offer an ideal opportunity to reassess its past whilst looking to its future.

Versailles and the Mechanics of Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Versailles and the Mechanics of Power

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Nottingham French Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 734

Nottingham French Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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BTS Français - Culture générale et expression - 1. De la musique avant toute chose ? - 2. À toute vitesse ! - Examen 2021
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 548

BTS Français - Culture générale et expression - 1. De la musique avant toute chose ? - 2. À toute vitesse ! - Examen 2021

Au sommaire : Un rappel méthodologique de la synthèse de documents et de l’écriture personnelleUne introduction claire avec une mise en perspective des problématiques essentielles du thèmeDes fiches de lecture synthétiques consacrées aux œuvres recommandées par le Bulletin officiel : – Littérature – Essais – Films – Arts plastiques – Musique Un glossaire