Westward Ho!
Title | Westward Ho! PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
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Kingsley's historical romance of the Spanish Main, first published in 1855. From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Contains a table of contents and listing of illustrations.
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley
Title | Collected Works of Charles Kingsley PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1893 |
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Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Village sermons, and Town and country sermons
Title | Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Village sermons, and Town and country sermons PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1894 |
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Extreme-Occident
Title | Extreme-Occident PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Philippe Mathy |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1993-11-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226510637 |
What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it "Extrême-Occident," the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers the first systematic examination of French texts that address the question of America. He shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. The texts themselves range from novels and poems to travel narratives and philosophical essays by Claudel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, and many others. Mathy deftly situates these discourses on America against the background of French intellectual and political history since 1789. The judgments on American culture that originate in France, he contends, are also statements about France itself. Widespread condemnation of American materialism and pragmatism cuts across deep ideological and political divides in France, primarily because French intellectuals still operate within a framework of critical and aesthetic models born in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and elaborated in the age of French classicism. Mathy engages issues central to interpreting the American experience, such as the current controversies over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Although Mathy deals mainly with French authors, he does not limit himself to them. Rather, he uses a comparative, cross-cultural approach that also takes in accounts of America by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Junger, Gramsci, and other Europeans, as well as American self-interpretations from Emerson and Dewey to Cornel West and Christopher Lasch. Because debates on American modernity have played a crucial intellectual role in France, Extrême-Occident is a major contribution to modern French cultural history. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the main currents of twentieth-century French thought.
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: All saints' day
Title | Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: All saints' day PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1895 |
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Complete Works
Title | Complete Works PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1909 |
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Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Sermons on national subjects
Title | Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Sermons on national subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1890 |
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