Translocated Modernisms Tout Vient À Mourir Paris and Other Lost Generations Translocated Modernisms Tout Vient À Mourir

Translocated Modernisms Tout Vient À Mourir Paris and Other Lost Generations Translocated Modernisms Tout Vient À Mourir
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Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafés, and salons of Montparnasse, those who stayed such as Brion Gysin and Mavis Gallant, those who returned “home” such as Morley Callaghan, John Glassco, David Silverberg, and Sheila Watson, and those who galvanized local cultural practices by appropriating and translating them from elsewhere. While for some Paris becomes a permanent home, for others, it is simply a temporary excursion which can last for months, or for many years. The collection opens up the Lost Generation to include multiple generations and broadens its ambit to encompass modernist writers placed under erasure by dominant narratives of Anglo-American modernism. Instead of limiting the category to a single group based on a collective identity, this volume considers lost generations as a particular type of modernist identity attributable to multiple and disparate collectivities. These lost generations include those excluded from canonical narrativizations of expatriate modernisms, among which we spy the glimmer of other modernists living in the shadows of luminaries long recognized in the Anglo-American tradition.

The Burial at Thebes

The Burial at Thebes
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1466855487

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history. In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period
Author: Hubertus Fischer
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319263420

This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This development was deeply embedded in the philosophical, religious, political, cultural and social contexts, running parallel to the beginning of processes of scientization so characteristic for modern European history. This volume strikingly shows how these various developments are intertwined in gardens for various purposes.

Toward the Habit of Truth

Toward the Habit of Truth
Author: Mahlon B. Hoagland
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1994
Genre: Biochemists
ISBN: 9780393311471

Hoagland, who had a major hand in solving the biological puzzle of DNA, evokes in this memoir the adventure and excitement of the search to discover how the language of DNA is translated into the substance of life. Photographs.

EUtROPEs

EUtROPEs
Author: John W. Boyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9782952596268

Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks publish selected papers drawn from the various advanced-level activities at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. In Volume Seven, scholars from across the continent consider Europe as a discourse made of the sediments of historical experience and utopian ideas. Attached to a geographical region with constantly shifting boundaries, the group considers EUtROPEs as the cultural codes that endow Europe with the many meanings that it has held for different actors at different times. Twenty historians, linguists, cultural scientists, musicologists, and scholars of philosophy, urban studies, and film studies who came together at the University of Chicago's Center in Paris discuss these tropes in different fields and consider whether the present can continue to bear the weight of the many ideas and legacies of Europe.

Traces of Light

Traces of Light
Author: Ann Cooper Albright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780819568434

The first major English-language study of a legendary dancer

The Unknown Terrorist

The Unknown Terrorist
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008-02-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1555848362

From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.

Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens

Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens
Author: John Evelyn
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780812235364

Interlacing in his work practical, literary, and philosophical approaches to landscape architecture, Evelyn created the first large-scale encyclopedic work on the science and art of gardening."--BOOK JACKET.

The Sun King's Garden

The Sun King's Garden
Author: Ian Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1582346313

Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre, the gardener.