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Author | : Bernard Quaritch (Firm) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |
Intentions Annotated
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Intentions By Oscar Wilde was published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur's famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted art for art's sake against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. On every page of this collection the gifted literary stylist admirably demonstrates not only that the characteristics of art are "distinction, charm, beauty, and imaginative power, but also that criticism itself can be raised to an art form possessing these very qualities. In the opening essay, Wilde laments the decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure. He takes to task modern literary realists like Henry James and Emile Zola for their "monstrous worship of facts" and stifling of the imagination. What makes art wonderful, he says, is that it is absolutely indifferent to fact, invents, imagines, dreams, and keeps between herself and reality the impenetrable barrier of beautiful style, of decorative or ideal treatment.
Divagations
Author | : Stphane Mallarm |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674032403 |
"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stphane Mallarm, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarm's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. If Mallarm captured the tone and very feel of fin-de-sicle Paris, he went on to captivate the minds of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--from Valry and Eliot to Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This was the only book of prose he published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Barbara Johnson, is now available for the first time in English as Mallarm arranged it. The result is an entrancing work through which a notoriously difficult-to-translate voice shines in all of its languor and musicality. Whether contemplating the poetry of Tennyson, the possibilities of language, a masturbating priest, or the transporting power of dance, Mallarm remains a fascinating companion--charming, opinionated, and pedantic by turns. As an expression of the Symbolist movement and as a contribution to literary studies, Divagations is vitally important. But it is also, in Johnson's masterful translation, endlessly mesmerizing.
The Creation of the Rococo (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Fiske Kimball |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2018-08-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781390926484 |
Excerpt from The Creation of the Rococo Hotel de Mailly: Ceilings and arabesques designed by Berain. Berain arabesque engraved before 1 693. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Esther Happy
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2021-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Sèvres Porcelain
Author | : Carl Christian Dauterman |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Porcelain |
ISBN | : 0870992279 |
A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors
Author | : Gertrude Whiting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Lace and lace making |
ISBN | : |