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Were it not for the Marquis de Sade's explicit use of language and complete disregard for the artificially constructed taboos of a religious morality he despised, the novelty and profundity of his thought, and above all, its fundamental modernity, would have long since...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-07-28
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This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of travel literature have addressed English-language material, Forsdick's study...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-05-19
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'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-01-13
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'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-01-13
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Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2004-08-19
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Why did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, so much more than today?Why was curiosity a fashionable topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations, scientific...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-07-08
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Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Short forms appear early inBalzac's output, and shape his work throughout his career.Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-02-14
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In this innovative study, Carol Thysell provides an in-depth examination of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. While this collection of tales is traditionally considered to be secular in nature, Thysell argues that Marguerite de Navarre used it as a vehicle for a...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-12-07
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Flaubert: Writing the Masculine offers a new approach to Flaubert's major writing and to gender studies as a whole. Through a combination of close reading with a knowledge of current gender studies and particular attention to the sociohistorical and legal contexts of...
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Clarendon Press
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2000-03-09
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La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the stage version, in film and television adaptations, and inLa Traviata,...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-01-06
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La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's marvellously beautiful, intelligent, and vibrant heroine lives on in revivals of the stage version, in film and television adaptations, and inLa Traviata,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-01-06
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The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the...
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OUP Oxford
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1999-09-09
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This study is an examination of Baudelaire's art criticism and its relationship with his creative writing. It is the first book in English to treat in one volume the diverse aspects of the subject: the principal aesthetic ideas, the importance of Delacroix, Boudin,...
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Clarendon Press
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1999-07-29
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Rousseau's Legacy focuses on the new and influential paradigm of the writer that emerged in the decades immediately preceding the French Revolution. Ushered in byRousseau's combining revolutionary sociopolitical critique with a new art of autobiography, the writer would...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-05-25
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Las golondrinas de Kabul, la premiadísima novela de Yasmina Khadra, que nos narra la desoladora historia de dos parejas que sobreviven en un Kabul devastado por los destrozos de la guerra y dirigido con mano...
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ResumenExpress.com
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2018-02-08
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