The Life of Madame Necker

The Life of Madame Necker
Title The Life of Madame Necker PDF eBook
Author Sonja Boon
Publisher Routledge
Pages 193
Release 2015-10-06
Genre History
ISBN 1317323688

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Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker’s life – her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death.

Pascal and Rhetoric

Pascal and Rhetoric
Title Pascal and Rhetoric PDF eBook
Author Erec R. Koch
Publisher Rookwood Press
Pages 240
Release 1997
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9781886365056

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Title PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Odile Jacob
Pages 385
Release
Genre
ISBN 2738173691

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Encyclopedia of the Essay

Encyclopedia of the Essay
Title Encyclopedia of the Essay PDF eBook
Author Tracy Chevalier
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1032
Release 2012-10-12
Genre Reference
ISBN 1135314101

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This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Oeuvres

Oeuvres
Title Oeuvres PDF eBook
Author Jean-Baptiste Massillon
Publisher
Pages 732
Release 1833
Genre Sermons, French
ISBN

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The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond

The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Title The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 313
Release 2015-10-14
Genre History
ISBN 9004305300

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Focusing on the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion, the articles gathered in this volume offer historical, literary critical and anthropological perspectives on Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum (thirteenth century), the context of its production and other texts directly or indirectly inspired by it. The exempla inserted by Caesarius into a didactic dialogue between a monk and a novice survived for many centuries and travelled across the seas thanks to rewritings and translations into vernacular languages. An accomplished example of the art of persuasion —medieval and early modern— the Dialogus Miraculorum establishes a link not only between the monasteries, the mendicant circles and other religious congregations but also between the Middle Ages and Modernity, the Old and the New World. Contributors are: Jacques Berlioz, Elisa Brilli, Danièle Dehouve, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Marie Formarier, Jasmin Margarete Hlatky, Elena Koroleva, Nathalie Luca, Brian Patrick McGuire, Stefano Mula, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk.

Pensée de Marivaux

Pensée de Marivaux
Title Pensée de Marivaux PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 124
Release 2016-08-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004333509

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Envisager la pensée d'un écrivain que la tradition ne tient pas pour un penseur - et dont les textes n’épargnent pas la prétention philosophique -, peut paraître paradoxal, voire naïf. Mais ce serait oublier que la réflexion prend bien des chemins et que la littérature est un espace de pensée. Il faudrait, par conséquent, plutôt s’étonner du fait qu'il puisse sembler anormal d'interroger la pensée d’un écrivain. Mais Ie terrain est, il est vrai, miné... Mieux vaut repartir sur des bases modestes et claires, d'après quelques constats. Ainsi, concernant Marivaux, est-il frappant de relever l'importance que tiennent les réflexions dans ses textes. Rien de plus légitime dès lors que de se demander si ces pensées, apparemment décousues, n'entrent pas dans une conception ordonnée du réel et de « l’humanité ». Il ne s’agit pas pour autant d’en revenir à une position simpliste consistant à attribuer à chaque auteur une conception du monde à partir d’un relevé de ses affirmations explicites ou implicites. Plutôt que de se fourvoyer dans un exposé artificiellement complet de la pensée de Marivaux, il paraît plus intéressant de faire quelques pas en direction de ce qui est pensé dans les textes de Marivaux.