Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Power and Propaganda in French Second Empire Theatre
In nineteenth-century France, authorities feared the inflammatory power of the stage, but sought to exploit it as an effective means of propaganda. The focus of this book is on theatrical representations of Napoléon Bonaparte during France’s Second Empire (1850-1870), a period marked by the impérialisation of the capital through the renaming of streets and public spaces. Many heroes of the revolution and the wars of the Empire appeared with Napoléon in these plays. Several featured members of his family, Joséphine and her son, Eugène, the actor Talma, or the fortune teller Lenormand. Already popular during the July Monarchy, these Napoléon-themed dramas enjoyed a renewed interest wit...
L'hospitalité au théâtre
L'étude d'une trentaine d'oeuvres et de mythes ou de figures emblématiques dans l'univers du théâtre pour répondre à la question : que dévoile la dramaturgie sur les gestes et les discours de l'hospitalité et l'inhospitalité ? Approfondie par une réflexion sur la représentation au théâtre en tant que lieu d'hospitalité et la littérature théâtrale fondée sur la rencontre.
Commanding Words
In a twenty-first century which celebrates freedom and equality while also beginning to question the lax attitudes and methods which have triumphed since the late Sixties, reflecting on the concept of authority is as necessary as ever. What role does, and should, authority play in political, social, and academic organization? Should one plead for stricter or more flexible authority? Where does the frontier between authority and authoritarianism lie? In examining these, and other related questions, this volume, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse, also discusses the rhetorical strategies whereby authority is constructed, manifested, and resisted. Pertaining to subjects as various as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters which constitute this book offer an interdisciplinary, yet thematically coherent, coverage of the question under discussion, and encompass a wide historical and spatial scope, which ranges from the Islamic Middle Ages to twenty-first century America, passing through nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, India, and North Africa on the way.
French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy
This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise political influence. This book explores continuities and variations in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles.
Hernani et Ruy Blas
None
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem
Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the prose poem. By placing Bertrand back in his original context, adopting a comparative approach and engaging with recent critical work on the collection, Valentina Gosetti proposes a substantial reassessment of Gaspard de la Nuit and promotes a new understanding of Bertrand in his own terms, rather than those of his successors. Through his playful and ironic reinterpretation of Romantic clichés, and his overt defiance of the boundaries of poetry and beauty, Bertrand emerges as a fascinating figure in his own right. This book is one of the first full-length studies of Bertrand’s work, and it will be of particular interest to specialists of the nineteenth century and of provincial literature, and to students of nineteenth-century poetry or the fantastic.
Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-century France
A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese. Was Petrarch French? This book explores the various answers to that bold question offered by French readers and translators of Petrarch working in a period of less well-known but equally rich Petrarchism: the nineteenth century. It considers both translations and rewritings: the former comprise not only Petrarch's celebrated Italian poetry but also his often neglected Latin works; the latter explore Petrarch's influence on and presence in French novels aswell as poetry of the period, both in and out of the canon. Nineteenth-century French Petrarchism has its r...
Symptoms of the Self
"Symptoms of the Self offers the first full study of one of the most paradoxically popular figures in transatlantic theatre history: the stage consumptive. Consumption, or tuberculosis, remains one of the world's most deadly epidemic diseases; in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, Britain, and North America, it was a leading killer, responsible for the deaths of as many as one in four members of the population. Despite-or perhaps because of-their horrific experiences of tubercular mortality, throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century audiences in these same countries flocked to see consumptive characters love, suffer, and die onstage. Beginning with th...
Le philosophe et l'original
Échappant à tous les genres et à tous les canons, mimant le mouvement et l'exagérant, embrassant des formes normalement différenciées d’expression artistique à la limite du vraisemblable, sinon du lisible, Le Neveu de Rameau est une œuvre ouverte, irrésistible d’enjouement et de gaieté parce que l’humour n’est pas la composante la moins essentielle de ce dialogue qui séduit d’emblée par sa liberté de ton et de composition. On a pu lire l’œuvre selon une opposition dialectique où s’affronteraient d’un côté l’affirmation de la philosophie, de l’autre sa négation. Il faudrait encore prendre en compte la valeur critique du cynisme assumé par un Rameau provo...
« Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre »
L'essai, au sens étymologique, c’est la pesée, le poids; au figuré, c’est l’exercice, le prélude, l’échantillon. Partant du mot, que Montaigne introduit dans le domaine littéraire, ces pages envisagent le livre III, d’abord de manière synthétique et globale, en trois sections consacrées à Montaigne, aux Essais et à la « bibliothèque des Essais ». Puis se dévident des « cheminements de chapitres », analysant quelques-unes des plus célèbres sections du livre III, « Du repentir », « Sur des vers de Virgile », « Des coches », «De l’art de conférer », «De la vanité », «Des boiteux », «De la physionomie », «De l’expérience ». L’anthologie critique conduit de Pascal, lecteur assidu, et quand bien même indigné souvent, des Essais, à Stefan Zweig, qui termina ses jours au Brésil en lisant et commentant Montaigne, au début d’une longue guerre dont il ne vit pas la fin.
