Author:
Publisher: Editions Publibook
Total Pages: 212
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ISBN: 2342161689

Remaking the Male Body

Remaking the Male Body
Author: Joan Tumblety
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191636894

Remaking the Male Body looks at interwar physical culture as a set of popular practices and as a field of ideas. It takes as its central subject the imagined failure of French manhood that was mapped out in this realm by physical culturist 'experts', often physicians. Their diagnosis of intertwined crises in masculine virility and national vitality was surprisingly widely shared across popular and political culture. Theirs was a hygienist and sometimes overtly eugenicist conception of physical exercise and national strength that suggests the persistence of fin-de-siècle pre-occupations with biological degeneration and regeneration well beyond the First World War. Joan Tumblety traces these patterns of thinking about the male body across a seemingly disparate set of voices, all of whom argued that the physical training of men offered a salve to France's real and imagined woes. In interrogating a range of sources, from get-fit manuals and the popular press, to the mobilising campaigns of popular politics on left and right and official debates about physical education, Tumblety illustrates how the realm of male physical culture was presented as an instrument of social hygiene as well as an instrument of political struggle. In highlighting the purchase of these concerns in the interwar years, the book ultimately sheds light on the roots of Vichy's project for masculine renewal after the military defeat of 1940.

Comment C'est

Comment C'est
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780815337676

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

Old Age in European Society

Old Age in European Society
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2024-05-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040008399

Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging, a process which had received little attention from any group in the social sciences and virtually none from historians at the time. Starting from the premise that ‘the elderly can and should be active, participant members of their society’ the book examines the ways in which old people were and are viewed by certain key groups. This is done in a series of thematic essays linked by the main theme of a dominant culture in which the elderly and the groups who deal with them were and still are ensnared. This dominant culture is one of denigration of the elderly: the traditional idea of veneration of the elderly is found to be largely mythical. Variations on this theme are dealt with in individual chapters concerned with the elderly in French working-class culture and geriatric medicine. Key groups are studied with an eye to distinct patterns of modernization, which involves particular attention to the working class and middle class as those exposed to the leading edge of change. Women are treated separately, as their aging process involves distinctive elements, which exacerbate the problems of old age. France, with its exceptional percentage of elderly and its low retirement ages, provides much of the material for these essays, the main purpose of which is to indicate those topics for which an historical treatment is vital to our understanding of the elderly and to the formulation of a more positive approach to old age.

Samuel Beckett Comment C'est How It Is And / et L'image

Samuel Beckett Comment C'est How It Is And / et L'image
Author: Samuel Beckett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2016-06-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135713650

This book contains the English and French texts and a complete record of the genesis of each. Besides Comment C'est How It Is, O'Reilly has included L'Image and an excerpt from Comment C'est that was published later in another volume.

Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres

Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9004388087

Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Theatres: Thought, Form, and Performance of Revolt at once reflects and acts upon the praxis of theatre that inspired Haitian writer Marie Vieux Chauvet, while at the same time provides incisively new cultural studies readings about revolt in her theatre and prose. Chauvet – like many free-minded women of the Caribbean and the African diaspora – was banned from the public sphere, leaving her work largely ignored for decades. Following on a renewed interest in Chauvet, this collection makes essential contributions to Africana Studies, Theatre Studies, Performance Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Global South Feminisms. Contributors are: Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Stéphanie Bérard, Christian Flaugh, Gabrielle Gallo, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Kaiama L. Glover, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Cae Joseph-Massena, Nehanda Loiseau, Judith G. Miller, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Anthony Phelps, Ioana Pribiag, Charlee M. Redman Bezilla, Guy Régis Jr, and Lena Taub Robles. This collection is a beautiful gathering of voices exploring Chauvet’s theatrical work, along with the role of theatre in her novels. The richly textured and evocatively written essays offer many new and necessary insights into the work of one of Haiti’s greatest writers. — Laurent Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University. Author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History This collection draws necessary critical attention to how theatre and performance animate the work of a key figure in Caribbean fiction and drama. Using an innovative scholarly and artistic approach, the collection incorporates leading and new voices in Haitian studies and Francophone studies on Chauvet’s depictions of revolt. — Soyica Diggs Colbert, Professor of African American Studies and Theater & Performance Studies, Georgetown University. Author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics

Canadiana

Canadiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1986
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Population

Population
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2007
Genre: Demography
ISBN:

Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais

Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais-français, français-anglais
Author: Françoise Bulman
Publisher: Presses Université Laval
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1998
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9782763776064

Initiative opportune que de présenter 1800 proverbes dans les deux langues. Intérêt immédiat pour le lecteur qui aime les nuances et surtout intérêt à court terme pour le traducteur qui ne veut pas s'y perdre. Présentation thématique.