Selected Essays

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486457443
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Skeptical but tolerant, honest but humorous, 16th-century philosopher Montaigne was remarkably modern in his views. These 7 essays are essential reading for students of French language. Introduction, Notes.

Selected Essays

Author: Claude Moore Fuess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Selected Essays

Author: Henry de Montherlant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758191427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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The Cambridge History of English Literature

Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)

Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122549
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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French text and English translations on facing pages of six stories: Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Nerval's Sylvie, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's Hérodias, Zola's L’attaque du moulin,, de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle.

Selected Essays

Author: William Troy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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On Essays

Author: Thomas Karshan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191082112
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Claudia Rankine? Sometimes called the fourth genre, the essay has been over-shadowed in literary history by fiction, poetry, and drama, and has proved notoriously resistant to definition. On Essays reveals in the essay a pattern of paradox: at once a pedagogical tool and a refusal of the methodical languages of universities and professions; politically engaged but retired and independent; erudite and anti-pedantic; occasional and enduring; intimate and oratorical; allusive and idiosyncratic. Perhaps because it is a form of writing against which literary scholarship has defined itself, there has been surprisingly little work on the tradition of the essay. Neither a comprehensive history nor a student companion, On Essays is a series of seventeen elegantly written essays on authors and aspects in the history of the genre - essays which, taken together, form the most substantial book yet published on the essay in Britain and America.

The Age of Curiosity

Author: Simone Broders
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110722046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.

Pleasures and Days and "Memory" / Les Plaisirs Et Les Jours Et "Souvenir" Short Stories by Marcel Proust

Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048649702X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Set amid the salon society of fin-de-siècle Paris, these captivating tales offer satirical and moving depictions of metropolitan life. Proust's stunning debut chronicles the lives, loves, manners, and motivations of a fascinating cast of characters. These philosophical reflections, brief narratives, and prose poems established the 22-year-old author as a remarkable collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Appropriate for intermediate-level students of French, this dual-language volume is equally suited to classroom use and to independent study. New English translations appear on pages facing the original French text. Readers will find this volume a fascinating introduction to the works of a key figure of French literature as well as a valuable aid to mastering one of the world's most enchanting languages. Dover (2014) original publication.

The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Author: Adrienne Monnier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282278
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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In 1920s Paris, Adrienne Monnier provided a focal point for the writers and artists drawn to the Left Bank. Her bookstore in the Rue de l’Odeon was aptly called La Maison des Amis des Livres. Monnier took a simple though sophisticated delight in language, books, art, music, nature, friendship, and food. Her 1940 journal, written as Paris fell to the Germans and originally published in 1976, is a rich tapestry of essays, reviews, and personal recollections. She goes to lunch with Colette, visits T. S. Eliot, befriends Joyce, argues with Breton, takes walks with Gide, publishes her elegant reviews, and reflects on the ballet, opera, Steinberg drawings, Marlon Brando and Alec Guinness movies, and the country of her birth.