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L'enfance D'une Parisienne
Extrait: \"Rien n'est doux comme les enfances heureuses dans les familles pleines de traditions, ou les beguins des jeunes meres, soigneusement conserves, entourent de leurs dentelles un peu jaunies le visage rose des derniers venus ; ou l'on habite trente ans de suite les memes maisons, en gardant tous ses amis, en celebrant toutes les fetes...\"
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Catholic literature and secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914
This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It compares individual and societal secularisation in France and England and examines how French and English Catholic writers understood and contested secular mores, ideologies and praxis, in the individual, societal and religious domains. It also addresses the extent to which some Catholic writers succumbed to the seduction of secular instincts, even paradoxically in themes which are considered to be emblematic of Catholic literature. The breadth of this book will make it a useful guide for students wishing to become familiar with a wide range of such writings in France and England during this period. It will also appeal to researchers interested in Catholic literary and intellectual history in France and England, theologians, philosophers and students of the sociology of religion.
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Lost profiles : memoirs of cubism, dada, and surrealism
\"Lost Profiles is a remembrance of things past by poet and co-founder of the surrealist movement, Philippe Soupault. Beginning with a memoir of his involvement with Dada and his own role in transforming it into surrealism, Soupault takes us on a tour of post-WWI Paris, encountering the likes of Proust, Apollinaire, and Joyce during a seminal period of European culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The abject object : avatars of the phallus in contemporary French theory, literature and film
This book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts - the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts - literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noé, Bonello) - in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities - and the phallus that symbolizes them - can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies.
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Contested spaces, counter-narratives, and culture from below in Canada and Quâebec
\"This collection explores strategies of reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quâebâecois literary and cultural performances. How do literary texts and popular cultural performances produce and contest spatial practices? What is the role of the nation, the city, the community, and the individual subject in reproducing space, even during times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? In what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? And how does space itself shape conflict, counter-memory, and culture from below? Focusing on contestation instead of harmony and consensus, Contested Spaces disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen; Contested Spaces exposes geographies of exclusion and difference such as flophouses and \"slums,\" shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, inner city urban parks as experienced by minority ethnics, the poor, women, social activists, Indigenous people, and Francophones in Canada. These essays are the product of sustained and high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, to expose geographies of exclusion, and to generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering work by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other more recent theorists of space.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Souvenirs de Madame C. Jaubert
Extrait: \"Pour peindre Berryer, en retraçant sa longue et brillante carrière, il ne suffit pas de l'avoir beaucoup connu: il faudrait encore posséder une plume exercée, habile et éloquente. Je ne puis entreprendre pareille tâche; mais dans un cadre limité, groupant mes souvenirs, je chercherai à faire connaître l'homme illustre par ce côté intime et vrai, toujours accueilli avec intérêt, quand, par son ressentiment, un nom éveille la curiosité...\"À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes.LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants: • Livres rares
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• Livres d'Histoire
• Poésies
• Première guerre mondiale
• Jeunesse
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The star, the cross, and the crescent
The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent analyzes fiction, films, comics, autobiographical narratives, and essays by Francophone Arab writers whose Christian (Accad, Antaki, Chédid, Maalouf), Jewish (Albou, Cixous, El Maleh, Memmi), Muslim (Bachi, Benaïssa, Benguigui, Ben Jelloun, Boudjedra, Boudjellal, Meddeb, Mimouni), and secular (Sebbar) backgrounds are emblematic of the diversity of the Francophone Arab world. It examines how these writers represent the intertwining of religion and politics against the backdrop of the current international political context and the resurgence of religion. Focusing on a series of disputes commonly framed in religious terms (with Islam as the common denominator for all: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese and the Algerian civil wars, the affair of the Muslim headscarf in France, and 9/11), this book questions the effectiveness of the Francophone studies model in providing insights into the complexity of the Islamic Revival. The study concludes by unpacking the influence of politics on the translation of these works in the U.S. It brings heightened awareness to the modalities according to which a creative work can serve as a cultural mediator.
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