Title | PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | TheBookEdition |
Pages | 321 |
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Promised Lands
Title | Promised Lands PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Rohdie |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2019-07-25 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 183871765X |
An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn, in the 1900s - arguably an instance of French modernism.
Icons, Texts, Iconotexts
Title | Icons, Texts, Iconotexts PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Wagner |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9783110142914 |
The Documentary Impulse in French Literature
Title | The Documentary Impulse in French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Buford Norman |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Documents in literature |
ISBN | 9789042013346 |
Odysseys / Odyssées
Title | Odysseys / Odyssées PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne M. Garane |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2017-02-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004334726 |
The volume explores diverse aspects of French-language travel writing. Arranged chronologically by topic, the essays cover the medieval Anglo-Norman story of the Irish traveller Saint Brendan's fantastical visit to hell; the sixteenth-century French expeditions to Florida; the seventeenth-century Dernières découvertes dans l’Amérique septentrionale de M. de la Sale mises au jour par le chevalier Tonti, 1697; the eighteenth-century Histoire générale des voyages by l’abbé Prévost; the eighteenth-century Impressions d' Orient et d'Arabie written in French by the Polish count Waclaw Seweryn Rzewuski; nineteenth-century tales of travel in Algeria by the orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin; early twentieth-century travel narratives by the modernist Blaise Cendrars; the 1936 visit to the Soviet Union by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and André Gide, odyssean thematics in the late twentieth-century work of Nobel prize winner Patrick Modiano; the thematics of nomadism in the twentieth-century writing of Albert Memmi, and the thematics of travel in works by Bernard Ollivier, Rachid Bouchareb, Fatou Diome, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Ndiaye and Emmanuel Lepage.
Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne
Title | Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Schmeling |
Publisher | Königshausen & Neumann |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter |
ISBN | 9783826033827 |
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | United States National Museum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1318 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Science |
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