Si le constat de la multiplicité, de l'éclatement du Je dans le roman africain des trente dernières années est indéniable, peu d'études d'envergure sur l'aventure littéraire du Je ont été entreprises pour lire, analyser et proposer un...
History and criticism
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- Author:Martin, HenrySummary:
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- Author:Byrne, DavidSummary:
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history.
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
McMurtry presents the final installment in his memoir trilogy. Tinged with his wry humor and Texas swagger, Hollywood is McMurtry's anecdote-filled take on Tinseltown from the year his Horseman, Pass By was adapted into Hud (1963)...
- Author:Bouguerra, Mohamed RidhaSummary:
- Author:Meineck, PeterSummary:
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck discusses the historical, social, political and cultural context of ancient Greek drama, concentrating on the four playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes...
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- Author:Drout, Michael D. C.Summary:
In this course, Wheaton College professor Michael D.C. Drout traces the history of science fiction. From Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to today's cutting-edge authors, Drout offers a compelling analysis of the genre.
- Author:Barr, Marleen S.Summary:
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Author:Potkay, Monica BrzezinskiSummary:
In this course, College of William & Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay provides an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail.
- Author:Tissières, HélèneSummary:
Ce livre est le premier à traiter des multiples circulations qui traversent les oeuvres littéraires écrites en français, provenant du Maghreb et de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Tout en s'écartant des scissions communément pratiquées entre...
- Author:Shutt, Timothy BakerSummary:
Kenyon College professor Timothy B. Shutt delivers a revealing study of Dante's greatest work, The divine comedy. The Commedia is about the afterlife, not just Hell, but Purgatory, and Heaven too. Dante's genius is the genius...
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- Author:Chabon, MichaelSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences.
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Mary Manjikian s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing...
- Author:Cazenave, Odile M.Summary: