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Misericordia (Paperback)
Benito Perez Galdos; Translated by Charles De Salis; Edited by Adrian Murdoch
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R275
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Abbe Jules (Paperback)
Octave Mirbeau; Volume editing by Adrian Murdoch; Translated by Nicoletta Simborowski
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R243
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Part two of Octave Mirbeau's autobiographical trilogy, ABBE JULES
tells of a priest's lifelong struggle with his passions. With the
realism of Zola and the decadent vision of D'Aurevilly, and
reflecting the impressionism of Monet, Pissaro and Van Gogh,
Mirbeau's novel presents us with a small boy's vision of provincial
France, where family, education and religion conspire to produce a
petit bourgeois tortured by repressed desire, violent fantasies,
and forbidden lusts.
This volume collects the poetry and prose that served as the model
and inspiration for so much of fin-de-siecle English and French
writing, providing a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery
in a cruel and violent society which has never ceased to fascinate
the library and scholarly imagination of succeeding generations.
The editor, novelist Geoffrey Farrington, provides a general
introduction to the literary and political milieux of imperial
Rome, and introductory notes to works by such authors as Ovid,
Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal.
A collection of fresh essays examining the wide scope and
significance of early Germanic culture and literature. The first
volume of this set views the development of writing in German with
respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a
range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and
philology in addition toliterary history. The first part considers
the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has
been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins
and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at thetwo great
influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the
Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by
Christianity. A chapter on orality -- the earliest stage of all
literature -- provides a bridgeto the earliest Germanic writings.
The second part of the book is devoted to written Germanic --
rather than German -- materials, with a series of chapters looking
first at the Runic inscriptions, then at Gothic, the first Germanic
language to find its way onto parchment (in Ulfilas's Bible
translation). The topic turns finally to what we now understand as
literature, with general surveys of the three great areas of early
Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old English, and Old High and Low
German. A final chapter is devoted to the Old Saxon Heliand.
Contributors: T. M. Andersson, Heinrich Beck, Graeme Dunphy, Klaus
Düwel, G. Ronald Murphy, Adrian Murdoch, Brian Murdoch, Rudolf
Simek, Herwig Wolfram. Brian Murdoch and Malcolm Read both teach in
the German Department of the University of Stirling in Scotland.
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