Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Honoré de Balzac: Repertory of La comédie humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacSelect Comedies of Mr. de Molière
Author: MolièreLe Malade Imaginaire, Comédie en Trois Actes
Author: MolièreScripts of Blackness
Author: Noémie NdiayePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512822647
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Scripts of Blackness shows how the early modern mass media of theatre and performance culture at-large helped turn blackness into a racial category, that is, into a type of difference justifying emerging social hierarchies and power relations in a new world order driven by colonialism and capitalism. In this book, Noémie Ndiaye explores the techniques of impersonation used by white performers to represent Afro-diasporic people in England, France, and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using a comparative and transnational framework. She reconstructs three specific performance techniques—black-up (cosmetic blackness), blackspeak (acoustic blackness), and black dances (kinetic blackness)—in order to map out the poetics of those techniques, and track a number of metaphorical strains that early modern playtexts regularly associated with them. Those metaphorical strains, the titular scripts of blackness of this book, operated across national borders and constituted resources, as they provided spectators and participants with new ways of thinking about the Afro-diasporic people who lived or could/would ultimately live in their midst. Those scripts were often gendered and hinged on notions of demonization, exclusion, exploitation, animalization, commodification, sexualization, consensual enslavement, misogynoir, infantilization, and evocative association with other racialized minorities. Scripts of Blackness attempts to grasp the stories that Western Europeans told themselves through performative blackness, and the effects of those fictions on early modern Afro-diasporic subjects.
Relire Ménandre
Author: Eric W. HandleyPublisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600043588
Category : Classical drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Colloque tenu à l'Université de Genève et à la Bibliotheca Bodmeriana pour célébrer le 30e anniversaire de la publication du "Dyscolos" (septembre 1988).
The Édition Définitive of the Repertory of La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Anatole CerfberrThe International Blue Book
Author: The International Who's who
Author: Hyacinthe RingrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
A biographical dictionary of the world's notable living men and women.
Richelieu
Author: R J KnechtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317874552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recent interpretations have been more favourable and in this incisive study R. J. Knecht uses recent research to reassess Richelieu's career and achievements.
An American Voltaire
Author: E. Joe JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443843679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies. Essay titles include: “A New Genre: l’Opéra moral / Moral Opera in Eighteenth-Century France,” “Voltaire and the Uses of Censorship: The Example of the Lettres Philosophiques,” “Enlightenment Intertextuality: The Case of Heraldry in the Encyclopédie méthodique,” “Sex as Satire in Voltaire's Fiction,” “Violence, Levity, and the Dictionary in Old Regime France: Chaudon’s Dictionnaire anti-philosophique,” “L’abbé, l’amazone, le bon roi et les frelons,” “Greuze’s Self-Portraits: Figures of Artistic Identity,” “From Forest to Field: Sylvan Elegists of Eighteenth-Century France,” “The Falsification of Voltaire's Letters and the Public Persona of the Author: From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776),” “The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765),” “John Law and the Rhetoric of Calculation,” “‘Le Roi des Bulgares’: Was Voltaire's Satire on Frederick the Great just too Opaque?” “Voltaire and the Voyage to Rome,” “Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote,” “Les petits livres du grand homme: polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire,” “Sentimental Horror: Enlightenment Tragedy and the Rise of the Genre Terrible,” “Voltaire and the Comic Genre: Polemics and Rhetoric.”