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The Nationalism of the Rich
Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the ‘nationalism of the rich’, defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic ‘exploitation’ suffered by a group of people represented...
Charmes de Paul Valéry
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Après le succès remporté par La Jeune Parque (1917), Paul Valéry, plébiscité en 1921 comme le plus grand poète contemporain, publie Charmes le 25 juin 1922 ; le titre du recueil est un hommage aux poèmes de l’Antiquité...
The Tribes of Albania
History, Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes...
by John Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
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 secured him a place alongside...
by Hubert Butler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Opening Hubert Butler's book of essays is like discovering gold. He has all the essayists's gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie aeternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wondering from the point, to inform...
Extremos
Visiones de lo extremo en literatura, historia, música, arte, cine y lingueística en España y Austria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 28, 2017
El siglo XX fue, según Eric Hobsbawm, la "época de los extremos": guerras, genocidios, opciones políticas extremas y la llegada al poder de regímenes autoritarios, la amenaza nuclear, la sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales, violencia, pobreza y hambrunas extremas de un lado,...
by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
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The gallant exploits of the Czecho-Slovak army in Siberia won the attention and sympathy of the world to and for their hopes and sacrifices in the cause of freedom. Fighting the Germanic Powers was not a new thing to them. Bohemia, the chief of the Czecho-Slovak...
by Pierrie de Marivaux
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all of their...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Volume 3: Paradiso
Volume 3: Paradiso
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's...
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...
by Dr. Meghan Vicks
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each positioned nothing as inseparable from the human condition and essential to the creation or operation of human existence, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated how all structures are built upon...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence,...
Framing the Polish Home
Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home...
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the World Wars
edited by Ondrej Sládek and Michael Heim
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The Czech Avant-Garde Literary Movement Between the Two World Wars tells the little-known story of the renaissance of Czech literary arts in the period between the two world wars. The avant-garde writers during this period broke down the barrier between the elite literary language and the vernacular...