Moreana
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
The Triumph of Pleasure
Author: Georgia Cowart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-12-15
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0226116387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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.
Utopie Et Civilisations
Author: Gilles Lapouge
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRéécriture Des Mythes
Author: Joëlle Cauville
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789042001763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefinir de facon univalente la notion de mythe et celle d'utopie semble en soi une entreprise tout a fait utopique. Par ailleurs, jumeler les deux notions, celle du mythe et celle d'utopie, releve d'un processus de reflexion qui peut facilement etre a double tranchant: le mythe, construction par excellende de l'imaginaire humain, ne se situe-t-il pas ailleurs que dans un non-lieu? et l'utopie, quant a elle, ne fait-elle pas echo au mythe, a la fois s'en inspirant, le niant et le transformant? Redondance possible, et aussi, parfois, refus des deux domaines a admettre leur interdependance, cheninement parallele surtout et creation commune de ce qui, en fin de compte, s'avere mythe transforme, utopie revistee. Toutefois, mythes et utopies quels que soient la position choisie, le point de vue defendu, semblent faire bon menage, a en juger par ce projet, mavec dix-neuf textes couvrant principalement la litterature contemporaine des femmes, mais puisant parfois aux uvres anterieures qui ont deja prepare le terrain, en offrant des visions d'existences idylliques ne serait-ce que litteraires."
Anglophonia
Author: Collectif d'auteurs,
Publisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9782858163519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutumn
Author: Philippe Delerm
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 1999-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1583481826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[This book is written in French.] Philippe Delerm nous entraîne dans le périple insensé des peintres préraphaélites. Une aventure envoûtante où des personnages se déchirent. Un destin en clair-obscur. On se demande si le faste n'est pas le comble de la misère, et si le recours aux paradis artificiels ne masque pas d'autres détresses. Philippe Delerm draws us into the insane world of the pre-raphaelite painters. A spellbinding adventure in which characters tear each other apart. A destiny in chiaroscuro. It makes us wonder whether splendor is the height of misery, and whether the resort to artificial Edens is simply a mask for other troubles.
Nicolas Gueudeville and His Work (1652-172?)
Author: A. Rosenberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9400974736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is generally agreed that great men transcend their time while ordinary men remain rooted in it. This is why, if we want to know what life was like in days gone by, we must study those who were most representative of their age, those individuals who, though they may have achieved a modicum of fame or notoriety, are now, because of their limited abilities and outlook, largely forgotten. The great figures involved in the political and religious controversies that took of the seventeenth century and the beginning place in Holland! towards the end of the eighteenth, men such as Bayle, Jurieu, Le Clerc and others who were in the forefront of what has been aptly termed as the "crise de la conscience europeenne," these figures have been the object of extensive investigation. The minor personages of this period, on the other hand, have received little attention. For this reason, in a previous study,2 I examined the life and work of one of these minor figures, and tried to show how he was representative of those French Huguenots who came to Holland in the latter half of the seventeenth century, who settled in relatively remote places, and who made an effort to integrate themselves and gain acceptance in Dutch provincial society.
Secular Spirituality
Author: Lynn L. Sharp
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780739113394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecular Spirituality challenges the traditional dichotomy between Enlightenment reason and religion. It follows French romantic socialists' and spiritists' search for a new spirituality based on reincarnation as a path to progress for individuals and society. Leaders like Allan Kardec argued for social reform; spiritist groups strove for equality; and women mediums challenged gender roles. Lynn L. Sharp looks closely at what it meant to practice spiritism, analyszing the movement's social and political critique and explaining the popularity of the new belief. She explores points of convergence and conflict in the interplay between spiritism and science, spiritism and psychology, and spiritism and the Catholic church to argue that the nineteenth century was not as 'disenchanted' as has been thought. Secular Spirituality successfully places spiritism within a larger cultural conversation, going beyond the leaders of the movement to look at the way spiritism functioned for its followers.
The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 0198881037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.
The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period
Author: Karl A. E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 900425563X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErasmus was not only one of the most widely read authors of the early modern period, but one of the most controversial. For some readers he represented the perfect humanist scholar; for others, he was an arrogant hypercritic, a Lutheran heretic and polemicist, a virtuoso writer and rhetorician, an inventor of a new, authentic Latin style, etc. In the present volume, a number of aspects of Erasmus’s manifold reception are discussed, especially lesser-known ones, such as his reception in Neo-Latin poetry. The volume does not focus only on so-called Erasmians, but offers a broader spectrum of reception and demonstrates that Erasmus’s name also was used in order to authorize completely un-Erasmian ideals, such as atheism, radical reformation, Lutheranism, religious intolerance, Jesuit education, Marian devotion, etc. Contributors include: Philip Ford, Dirk Sacré, Paul J. Smith, Lucia Felici, Gregory D. Dodds, Hilmar M. Pabel, Reinier Leushuis, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Johannes Trapman, and Karl Enenkel.
