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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six
French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St
Catherine's College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long
seventeenth century entitled 'Modernites/Modernities'. Nineteen of
the best papers on theatre, fiction and poetry were selected for
this volume, and they present new perspectives on novels as
different as L'Astree and Le Roman bourgeois, comedy and tragedy,
actors' practices, the ballet de cour and the burgeoning genre of
opera, and a time span from Du Bellay to Mme de Gomez. The cardinal
feature of this wide range of topics lies in the unifying factor of
vibrant modernity.
Much work has been done in recent years on Quinault's librettos,
but no major study of his spoken plays has appeared since the
monumental thesis by Etienne Gros, published in 1926. Moreover, he
has never been the subject of a monograph in English. There is a
need to re-assess the influence of his life on his plays, and to
re-evaluate Gros's findings in the light of eighty years' research
into seventeenth-century French theatre in general. This book
rejects the deterministic approach that sees his plays as
apprentice pieces for the greater achievement that is his corpus of
librettos, as well as the implicit comparative approach that
pigeon-holes his work, in passing, by borrowing from the pithy
judgements of Boileau. To what extent does Quinault's steady move
away from comedy and light tragi-comedy to tragedies that combine
love and menace go hand in hand with his search for greater
integrity, better characterisation, and ever more credible
plotting? How did he come to create and retain a tremendously
faithful audience that even the withering mockery of Boileau failed
to discourage? And is there any purpose in retaining the time-worn
comparison between the author of Andromaque and the author of
Astrate?
In June 2006 delegates from eight countries representing six
French, US, and British-based learned societies met at St
Catherine's College, Oxford, for a conference on the French long
seventeenth century entitled 'Modernites/Modernities'. Twenty of
the best papers on religion, ethics and history were selected for
this volume, and they present new perspectives on topics as diverse
as devotion and pornography, artifice and the pursuit of truth,
Bruscambille and Pascal, historiography from the sixteenth century
to Voltaire, and, of course, the Querelle des Anciens et des
Modernes.
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The Story of My Heart (Hardcover)
Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams; Afterword by Scott Slovic
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While browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams
and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy of an exquisite
autobiography by nineteenth-century British nature writer Richard
Jefferies, who develops his understanding of a "soul-life" while
wandering the wild countryside of Wiltshire, England. Brooke and
Terry, like John Fowles, Henry Miller, and Rachel Carson before,
were inspired by the prescient words of this visionary writer, who
describes ineffable feelings of being at one with nature. In an
introduction and essays set alongside Jefferies' writing, the
Williams share their personal pilgrimage to Wiltshire to understand
this man of "cosmic consciousness" and how their exploration of
Jefferies deepened their own relationship while illuminating
dilemmas of modernity, the intrinsic need for wildness, and what it
means to be human in the twenty-first century.
Terry Tempest Williams is the author of fourteen books including
"Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place" and "When Women
Were Birds." Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, she
teaches at Dartmouth and the University of Utah where she is the
Annie Clark Tanner scholar in the environmental humanities graduate
program. Her work has been anthologized and translated
worldwide.
Brooke Williams has spent thirty years advocating for wildness,
most recently with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and as
executive director of the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming. He is the
author of four books including "Halflives: Reconciling Work and
Wildness," and dozens of articles. Brooke and Terry have been
married since 1975. They live with their dogs in Jackson, Wyoming,
and Castle Valley, Utah.
Praise for Terry Tempest Williams' "When Women Were Birds"
"Williams displays a Whitmanesque embrace of the world and its
contradictions...As the pages accumulate, her voice grows in
majesty and power until it become a full-fledged aria." --"San
Francisco Chronicle"
Praise for Brooke Williams' "Halflives: Reconciling Work and
Wildness"
..".a compact yet breathtaking treatise." --"Publishers
Weekly"
This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French,
written by leading English and French literary and historical
scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework
supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in
France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV's
reign. Reflecting a diversity of individual concerns, the essays
are divided into two interrelated parts in acknowledgement of the
complex tensions between codes of behaviour and political practice
in the different theatrical spaces of government in the real and
imaginary world. Together these contributions offer a radical
double questioning of the absolute values in which were founded the
authority of Church, King and nobility. The dual political and
moral theme of this study is not new, but it is one that has always
been highly regarded by historians and literary specialists alike.
It is in fact one of the classic preoccupations of
seventeenth-century studies, to which critics must always return,
and to which students must always address themselves, if they are
to comprehend the intellectual core of seventeenth-century French
studies.
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Labrador (Hardcover)
William Brooks Cabot
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R1,155
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In Northern Labrador
William Brooks Cabot
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R1,121
Discovery Miles 11 210
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On The Way (Hardcover)
William Brooks, George Sayre
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R701
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