The Influence of French on Eighteenth-century Literary Russian
The Influence of French on Eighteenth-century Literary Russian

Author: May Smith

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9783039102884

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This book seeks to establish the degree to which Gallicisms permeated the Russian language in the eighteenth century. The largest group of borrowings were the semantic and phraseological calques. In order to examine this influence, the author has selected scores of examples from the original works, translations and correspondence of Russian writers from the 1730s to the end of the century. The calques analysed belong to various registers of the literary language, from the prose used in essays and correspondence to the most lyrical form found in poetry and certain translations. This book concludes that the French influence was overwhelming and fully enhanced the Russian literary language that was developed during this period.

Accent on Accents
Accent on Accents

Author: Elliot Fine

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457466533

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Modern drumset studies written with contemporary notations conceived for the concert and jazz drummer.

Fields of Plenty
Fields of Plenty

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Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2005-10-13

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780811842235

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"Fields of Plenty is the memoir of respected farmer, writer, and photographer Michael Ableman as he and his son travel from his own farm in British Columbia across the United States in search of innovative and passionate farmers who are making a difference in what we eat and how we experience food. From California to New York, this story captures the essence of each farmer's vision, the spirit of the land that they work, and the beauty and flavors of the foods that they lovingly produce. Ableman's odyssey takes him to a melon grower who is "militant about flavor," sheep-cheese producers who have built their own culturing caves, an urban farmer growing heirloom tomatoes for market on abandoned lots, and others who are trying to answer the complex questions of sustenance philosophically and, most important, practically." "Fields of Plenty is a hopeful memoir that reveals the larger issues of food in a modern world. Illustrated with Ableman's photographs and flavored with recipes that feature each farmer's bounty, Fields of Plenty is an intimate portrait of food and agriculture at a critical crossroads."--BOOK JACKET.

The Marvels
The Marvels

Author: Brian Selznick

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0545922127

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Don't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, which together with The Marvels, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy! A breathtaking new voyage from Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick.Two stand-alone stories--the first in nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, the second in prose--create a beguiling narrative puzzle.The journey begins at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage.Nearly a century later, runaway Joseph Jervis seeks refuge with an uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past.A gripping adventure and an intriguing invitation to decipher how the two stories connect, The Marvels is a loving tribute to the power of story from an artist at the vanguard of creative innovation.

La Sagouine
La Sagouine

Author: Antonine Maillet

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780889241855

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In this Canadian classic, a washerwoman fills the stage with the voice of poverty and of pride.

The Triumph of Pleasure
The Triumph of Pleasure

Author: Georgia Cowart

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-12-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0226116387

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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.

Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

Author: Victoria Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-03

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1139464051

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This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.

The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750
The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750

Author: Dr Anne Dunan-Page

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1409479862

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Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland, the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity, the perceptions of 'refuge', and Huguenot attitudes towards education, social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.