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Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes’s Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two «special» modes of thought....
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Cet ouvrage réunit les travaux des plus grands spécialistes en poésie épique romane du Moyen Âge, rassemblés en juillet 2009 à Genève pour le XVIIIe congrès international de la Société Rencesvals. Ils ont consacré leurs efforts à analyser et à commenter des chansons de...
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The collector was one of the archetypal figures of the nineteenth-century French cultural imagination. During the July Monarchy (1830-48) a new culture of collecting emerged, which continued to develop over the course of the century and which attracted the attention of...
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This volume commemorates the work of Malcolm Bowie, who died in 2007. It includes selected papers drawn from the conference held in his memory at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, in May 2008, inspired by his work in nineteenth- and...
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Inspired by the work of their colleague David Gascoigne, a group of scholars from the UK and France examine in this book the narrative strategies of some of the most interesting and important French writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Stretching...
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Esta obra propone una reflexión interdisciplinar sobre los márgenes entre Naturaleza y Cultura. Su objetivo es contribuir al conocimiento de la condición humana en su relación con lo animal y lo vegetal. Partiendo de la premisa de que el ser humano del nuevo milenio –...
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A differenza di altri concetti su cui il ruolo svolto dall’Illuminismo è universalmente noto, beneficenza è un termine che appare indissolubilmente legato all’Ottocento, ed a una visione paternalista ed ipocrita dei rapporti sociali. Pochi conoscono le avventure...
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As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy. This collection of essays, on French and...
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Sobrepasar los límites de lo real y de la forma es lo propio del género fantástico. A través de él, el lenguaje humano trasciende la pura referencialidad y entra en otro mundo con el fin de intentar dotar de significado a sus percepciones más inescrutables. En este...
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The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact....
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Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any of the awareness of the bleakness of the human condition. Undoubtedly one of the most...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Las golondrinas de Kabul, la premiadísima novela de Yasmina Khadra, que nos narra la desoladora historia de dos parejas que sobreviven en un Kabul devastado por los destrozos de la guerra y dirigido con mano...
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