Nuits De Melancolie, Jours D’Ivresse (Part 1) Nights of Melancholy, Drunken Days (Part 2)
Title | Nuits De Melancolie, Jours D’Ivresse (Part 1) Nights of Melancholy, Drunken Days (Part 2) PDF eBook |
Author | Floran Cazeau |
Publisher | Trafford Publishing |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2017-05-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1490782052 |
This book is a message to the reader, telling him/her who I am, and how I perceive life and this world that we, human beings, share. This book depicts everything that my soul feels throughout my entire existence; which is why I call myself a chanter of life and everything evolved fom it. I sing death, love, and all things that arouse my senses and my mind! O, I must be thankful to the great Almighty for the energy he blew on me, when I thought I was already finished; certainly, for the breath, like ether, that spreads out of me without it ever evaporates. Yes, I must say thanks to the holy Lord, for he has tied me to you all, O human brothers, by my pen and the mutual warmth that bonds us.
Le Tumulte Noir
Title | Le Tumulte Noir PDF eBook |
Author | Jody Blake |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271017532 |
Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
Paris as Revolution
Title | Paris as Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520323009 |
In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
The Flowers of Evil
Title | The Flowers of Evil PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Baudelaire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2019-12-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781673401042 |
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Salon of 1846
Title | The Salon of 1846 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Baudelaire |
Publisher | David Zwirner Books |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2021-04-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781644230534 |
In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire’s Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic’s ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix. Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most daring and influential prose of the nineteenth century. Prior to publishing international bestseller Les Fleurs du mal (1857), he was already notable as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. Captivated by the Salons in Paris, Baudelaire took to writing to express his theories on modern art and art philosophy. The Salon of 1846 expands upon the tenets of Romanticism as Baudelaire methodically takes his reader through paintings by Delecroix and Ingres, illuminating his belief that the pursuit of the ideal must be paramount in artistic expression. Here we also see Baudelaire caught in a fundamental struggle with the urban commodity of capitalism developing in Paris at that time. Baudelaire’s text proves to be a useful lens for understanding art criticism in mid-nineteenth-century France, as well as the changing opinions regarding the essential nature of Romanticism and the artist as creative genius. Acclaimed art historian and art critic Michael Fried’s introduction offers a new reading of Baudelaire’s seminal text and highlights the importance of his writing and its relevance to today’s audience.
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
Title | Letters of a Peruvian Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Françoise de Graffigny |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-01-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0191622613 |
'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a nobleman, who is soon captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her experience of a new and alien society. Françoise de Graffigny's bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for love stories. But by fusing sentimental fiction and social commentary, she also created a new kind of heroine, defined by her intellect as much as her feelings. The novel's controversial ending calls into question traditional assumptions about the role of women both in fiction and society, and about what constitutes 'civilization'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Art of Taking a Walk
Title | The Art of Taking a Walk PDF eBook |
Author | Anke Gleber |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780691002385 |
Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. Gleber examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated. She sketches the European influences that produced the German flaneur and establishes the figure as a pervasive presence in Weimar culture, as well as a profound influence on modern perceptions of public space. The book begins by exploring the theory of literary flanerie and the technological changes--street lighting, public transportation, and the emergence of film--that gave a new status to the activities of seeing and walking in the modern city. Gleber then assesses the place of flanerie in works by Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, and other representatives of Weimar literature, arts, and theory. She draws particular attention to the works of Franz Hessel, a Berlin flaneur who argued that flanerie is a "reading" of the city that perceives passersby, streets, and fleeting impressions as the transitory signs of modernity. Gleber also examines connections between flanerie and Weimar film, and discusses female flanerie as a means of asserting female subjectivity in the public realm. The book is a deeply original and searching reassessment of the complex intersections among modernity, vision, and public space.