François Hotman: Antitribonian

François Hotman: Antitribonian
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004472029

Written c. 1567 (though unpublished until 1603), this is the work of an extraordinary scholar, a radical and polemicist, rival of many of the leading intellectual and political figures of his day. According to François Hotman’s distinguished biographer Donald Kelley the Antitribonian ‘is, or should be, a landmark in the history of social and historical thought’. It is also a landmark in the history of legal thought. The present edition is the first to evaluate Hotman’s text in the context of the history of Roman law from the time of the sixth-century Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to the Germany of the Enlightenment.

Contes Francais

Contes Francais
Author: Douglas Labaree Buffum
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781017913194

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ars Islamica

Ars Islamica
Author: Richard Ettinghausen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258227784

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist
Author: Carlton Lake
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1990
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780811211307

The author recounts his experiences in building collections of rare books and manuscripts of French literature, and reveals little-known facts about French artists, composers, and writers.

Composition as Explanation

Composition as Explanation
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gertrude Stein's "Composition as Explanation" delves into the intricate relationship between language and artistic expression. Published in 1926, the essay explores Stein's unique approach to writing and challenges conventional perceptions of composition. With a distinctive prose style, she reflects on the nature of creativity, emphasizing the significance of repetition and abstraction. Stein's work serves as both an exploration of her own artistic process and a broader commentary on the essence of language in shaping our understanding of art.

The African Shore

The African Shore
Author: Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0300196105

Originally published as La Orilla Africana. F&G Editores.

Cynicism and Postmodernity

Cynicism and Postmodernity
Author: Timothy Bewes
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997-05-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781859841969

In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes descends into the modern cynical consciousness with a critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society.

The Life of J.-K. Huysmans

The Life of J.-K. Huysmans
Author: Robert Baldick
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-04-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1910213306

Like Froude's biography of Carlyle, Holroyd's Shaw, and Ellmann's Joyce, Robert Baldick's Life of J.-K. Huysmans has become not just a standard reference work, to be consulted as regularly as the writing of the author whose life it chronicles, but a work of literature in its own right. First published fifty years ago, Baldick's classic biography presents a compelling narrative of Huysmans' life and work in all its various phases - from the Naturalism of the 1870s to the Decadence of the 1880s, and from the occult vogue of the 1890s to the Catholic Revival of the turn of the century - and it is written with such impeccable scholarship that it is still relied on today as regards matters of fact and detail. For this new edition - the first time the biography has been reprinted in English -Baldick's notes have been extensively revised and updated by Brendan King to take account of new developments and publications in the field of Huysmansian studies.

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.