Convergences and Interferences
Title | Convergences and Interferences PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004333207 |
How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time? This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical frontiers by placing careful analysis of texts from different language traditions in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural dialogue. In this collection of theoretically and politically aware close readings of contemporary cultural production, the focus of analysis rests on the multiple and complex global convergences and interferences of cultural influences. The collection foregrounds the work of innovative writers who seek to express the ungraspable presence of cultural “newness” at the same time as situating themselves in the richness of detail of local lives. This volume, most particularly, finds a balance of critical approach between the everyday attempts at negotiation and survival, and the insight brought to the reader by postcolonial, syncretic and feminist theoretical analysis.
Le Jacquard
Title | Le Jacquard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1132 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Wool |
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The Congo Basin
Title | The Congo Basin PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Innocent PEYA |
Publisher | Editions L'Harmattan |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2022-01-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 2140200926 |
This book is dedicated to the Congo Basin. It has the particularity of imagining the portrait of a universe devoid of the world's second largest lung after the Amazon, made up of forests, water, peat bogs, large carbon reserves and a rich biodiversity. However, these treasures are threatened by, on the one hand, the mer cantile interests of mafia networks eager to enrich themselves and, on the other hand, by the mismanagement of institutions and powers, which cause areas of uncertainty that are beyond the control of the indigenous endogenous powers. It is by observing these abuses that Michel Innocent Peya sounds the alarm on the risk of global climate genocide if the Congo Basin were to degrade or disappear.
Dictionnaire D'archéologie Chrétienne Et de Liturgie, Publié Par Le R. P. Dom Fernand Cabrol ... Avec Le Concours D'un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs
Title | Dictionnaire D'archéologie Chrétienne Et de Liturgie, Publié Par Le R. P. Dom Fernand Cabrol ... Avec Le Concours D'un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs PDF eBook |
Author | Fernand Cabrol |
Publisher | |
Pages | 730 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Christian antiquities |
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Title | PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | TheBookEdition |
Pages | 466 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 2958427218 |
The Houses and Collections of the Marquis de Marigny
Title | The Houses and Collections of the Marquis de Marigny PDF eBook |
Author | Alden R. Gordon |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780892366941 |
Between 1750 and his death in 1781, the Marquis de Marigny?brother of Madame de Pompadour, courtier to Louis XV, and one of eighteenth-century France's important patrons of art and architecture?amassed a collection that was broad in scope, progressive in taste, and exceptional in quality and provenance. This book offers a transcription of the exhaustive inventory of Marigny's estate together with an essay in which Alden R. Gordon not only sketches Marigny's life and times but also re-creates the interiors and grounds where the paintings, statues, books, household goods, and other property listed in the inventory were displayed and used. Also included are plans of Marigny's last four residences; lists of heirs, paintings, and auction sales; transcriptions of shipping manifests and sales catalogs; indexes; and a glossary.
Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones
Title | Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Gorer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Glyptics |
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