French literature of the 19th century

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    Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein written in 1818 is a novel about scientist Victor Frankenstein who brings a creature to life, and the journey of the two from the monsters creation to their demise. Many interpretations and readings have been attributed to this novel, all of which apply a different understanding to the meaning of the text, the themes and the characters. The notion of the monster and the pursuit of knowledge in a slowly globalising world is prevalent throughout the novel and will…

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    Foucault's Culture

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    intellectual protest and liberalization. While France had the Revolution of 1968, the Soviet intellectual started liberty rights movement and in the 1970s, they were ostracized as dissidents. Strikingly, Bakhtin’s culture theory has similarities with French philosophical systems of the same time. First, his approach reminds of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and Guattari’s “Chaosmosis.” Bakhtin defined culture as the set of the ideas, which he called “forms of thinking” ; similar to episteme…

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    family and a large number of French speaking families in my hometown identify as Acadians. Generally, Acadian families identify strongly with the Catholic religion. My parents never pushed religion on brother and me, but religion still played a large role in my upbringing; especially when visiting my grandparents…

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    'Essays' was the reason why J J Rousseau wrote 'The Body Politic.' Three volumes A note on the French to English translation: you'll witness a numerical imbalance of the word thousand and thousands and many thousands - (mille: in French). I dare say, Michel De Montaigne didn't use this generalised (numerical) value / language -- in truth his precise authorship in all manners of prose is renown and why I think the translator has taken the easy route: thus being as ambiguous as possible. I…

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    Professor Chandra British Literature (Early 20th Century) 6th October 2015 Nihilism and the Idea of Darkness in Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness was written more than a century ago and was first published in 1899. In much the same way as in the novel, where Marlow could observe that almost all the blank spots on the map had been filled, the world at the end of the 20th century had all but been explored. The 19th century was coming to an end and the French Revolution and…

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    Huxley Aldous Huxley was a 20th Century author whose works warned audiences about the dangers of technology. According to J.E Luebering in English Literature from the 19th Century through Today, some may know him as the author of The Devils of London which is a psychological study of a historical incident and group of seventeenth century French nuns who were crossed over by hysteria (176). This story is important because it shows Huxley’s desire to break free from the “bondage of ego” (Rolo 75)…

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    Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this…

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    The Reformation In Germany

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    Seckendorff’s critiques came from his point of view as a Saxon official, a Lutheran, and a politician; the opposite of French Jesuit Maimbourg, a staunch opponent of Luther. Both Seckendorff’s criticism and Maimbourg’s original were advancements to Reformation historiography, but according to Dixon, the peak historiographical advancement of Reformation Germany came in the 19th century (Dixon…

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    excelled in creating complex characterization of women. He possessed a multifaceted distinctiveness with a range of themes and subjects, voice and style. His plays combine popular appeal with credibility Russia produced literature and actors of its own towards the end of the nineteenth century. Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Stanislavskh and Danchenko contributed to the development of realism on the Russian stage. Chekhov's plays gave them ample scope for success and their theatre was referred to…

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    Bachelard Poetics Of Space

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    Prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre once wrote that the tendency to reduce space ‘to parcels, to images, to facades that are made to be seen and to be seen from’, is a tendency that degrades the very notion of it. Architecture inhabits space, the concept of which, albeit difficult to grasp is made possible through the interpretations of those who populate it. It is even possible to say that there are as many places as people in a space. This concept is central to the discourse of…

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