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.

Stranded

Stranded
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher: Dedalus European Classics
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Jacques' waking reveries and daydreams are balanced by a succession of dreams and nightmares that explore the seemingly irrational, often grotesque, world of unconscious desire, producing a series of images that challenges anything to be found in the fantasies of 'Against Nature', or the Satanic obsessions of 'La-Bas'."

En Route

En Route
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1897
Genre: Catholic converts
ISBN:

The Temple of Gnidus

The Temple of Gnidus
Author: Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2018-04-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385750537

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°

The Vatard Sisters

The Vatard Sisters
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: French literature
ISBN: 9781907650536

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade...The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and caf (c)-concerts...and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy...a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work..." ]Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future