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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article de synthèse sur l'auteur de l'œuvre.
La seconde interdiction du Tartuffe en 1667 contraint Molière à chercher un nouveau sujet de pièce. Il le puise dans la mythologie grecque et le théâtre latin en reprenant l'histoire d'Amphitryon, déjà traitée, entre autres, par Plaute (Amphitruo, 187 av. J.-C.) et, plus récemment,...
202) Simply Joyce
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Generally considered one of the greatest modern writers, James Joyce (1882—1941) grew up in Dublin, Ireland, but spent his adult life in the European cities of Trieste, Zurich, and Paris.
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An illuminating exploration of fin de siècle decadence "by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis" (Pre-Raphaelite Studies).
The influential writer and scholar Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable,...
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Bien que souvent classé dans cette catégorie dans les anthologies, il convient de dire d'emblée que, même dans l'acception la plus large du terme, l'ouvrage Les Cahiers de Malte Laurids Brigge n'est pas un roman. R. M. Rilke le qualifiait de « Prosabuch », un livre en prose, qui appelle,...
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In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be black in the world today. Mabanckou confronts the long and entangled history of Africa, France, and the United States as it has been shaped by slavery, colonialism, and their legacy today. Without ignoring the injustices and prejudice still facing blacks, he distances himself from resentment and victimhood, arguing that focusing too intenselyon the crimes...
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Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Arthur Conan Doyle's peculiar creation that continues to fascinate us? Journalist and lifelong Sherlock fan Zach Dundas set out to find the answer. The result is The Great Detective: a history of an idea, a biography...
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Embark on your mystery writing adventure with "Crafting the Perfect Whodunit: A Beginner's Guide to Mystery Writing." This essential guide provides a comprehensive blueprint for creating gripping mystery stories that captivate readers from start to finish. Perfect for both budding and seasoned writers, this book delves into the heart of the mystery genre, blending theoretical insights with practical advice. You'll explore key aspects of mystery writing,...
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Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period's theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the shell of the...
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Du monde entier. Poésies complètes 1912-1924 de Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) paraît en 1967 chez Gallimard, dans la collection « Poésie », avec une préface de Paul Morand. Ce premier volume reprend jusqu'à Documentaires la composition de la première édition complète et définitive...
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Imágenes de la peste, huelgas y marchas de obreros, desapariciones, siluetas de El Familiar y los Uturuncos, barricadas en la ciudad, forajidos y rebeldes convertidos en santos populares, detenciones en la noche, terror y olvido. Representaciones que atraviesan la memoria y la novelística sobre Tucumán al tensar y fragmentar los relatos.
Frente al lugar común que concibe al noroeste argentino como zona literaria donde la novela no es un género...
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Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation's history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam...
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Are you an author struggling to make a name for yourself in the crowded world of book marketing? Do you want to avoid the most common mistakes that authors make when promoting their books? Then look no further than "Top 10 Mistakes Authors Make Marketing Their Books" by B Alan Bourgeois. As an award-winning author and author advocate with years of experience in the publishing industry, Bourgeois has seen it all when it comes to book marketing. In...
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"Just keep on living..." My late mother, the inspiration for Ageless Glamour Girls™, used to love saying this. I first heard it in my mid-twenties, but it didn't click until later in life when I began navigating this aging journey. And among many of our mothers back then, there was very little, if any, talk with their daughters about growing older, and all that comes with it. And the M-word? What the heck is that?
This void inspired me to want...
214) Sexistence
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Sex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence.
Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc Nancy explores and upholds the form-giving thrust of the drive. Nancy reminds us that we are more comfortable with the drama of prohibitions, ideals, repression, transgression, and destruction, which often hamper thinking about sex and gender, than with the affirmation...
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Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies....
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The young, ambitious employees at radio station KLUV have a common belief that life is worth living. They are constantly inspired and challenged by the principles of honesty and love which they feel are at the pinnacle of the meaning of life. They believe that these two truths used in harmony can make life very enjoyable and ultimately worth the effort.In this collection of confessional and explorative essays, nine of them have pieced together a vast...
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Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that...
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Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. While labeling white savior narratives has become a familiar gesture, it doesn't tell us much about the story as story. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa.
Overlapping with but distinct from human rights, humanitarianism...
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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
A captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of Englishness
A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but has since become one of the best-loved volumes of poetry in the English language. Its evocation of the English coun - tryside, thwarted love, and...
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The Romantics lived through a turn of the century that, like our own, seemed to mark an end to history as it had long been understood. They faced accelerated change, including unprecedented state power, armies capable of mass destruction, a polyglot imperial system, and a market economy driven by speculation. In Romanticism at the End of History, Jerome Christensen challenges the prevailing belief that the Romantics were reluctant to respond to social...
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