Monsieur Vénus

Monsieur Vénus
Author: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1603292551

When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

Intentions

Intentions
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1913
Genre: Art critics
ISBN:

Our Fathers Have Told Us

Our Fathers Have Told Us
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781297790614

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The Romantic Agony

The Romantic Agony
Author: Mario Praz
Publisher: [London] : Collins
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1956
Genre: Devil in literature
ISBN:

Mario Paz has, in the Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is the analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may ve been transient, but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professo Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility.

Richelieu

Richelieu
Author: Christine Toulier
Publisher: Berger M. Editions
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The Voice in Cinema

The Voice in Cinema
Author: Michel Chion
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1999
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780231108232

Chion analyzes imaginative uses of the human voice by directors like Lang, Hitchcock, Ophuls, Duras, and de Palma.

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.