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French Ecocriticism
  • Language: en

French Ecocriticism

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.

The Act of Creation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 752

The Act of Creation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"First published by Hutchinson & Co. 1964"--Page 6.

Death of a Hero
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Death of a Hero

First published in 1929 and now public domain in the US and Canada, ''Death of a Hero'' is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. The book is narrated by a first-person narrator who knows and serves with the main character. The author Aldington, a veteran of World War I, wrote the work as largely autobiographical and claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style. It contains extensive colloquial speech, including profanity, discussion of sexuality and graphic descriptions of the war and of trench life. There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result. Today, this is considered one of the great war novels of World War 1.

The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME. Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy of ecocriticism as a tool for enriching our understanding of the field beyond the English and American “nature writing” at the theory’s core.

The Sound of Living Things
  • Language: en

The Sound of Living Things

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Albanie is thirty years old. Her daughter Maria is four. The two are on their own. They are given the rare freedom to pursue a life of the imagination, by virtue of Albanie's job. She works at the local library. Out of the passing of days, the flow of words, the aspects of life they explore together, a love story unlike any other is woven between Albanie and Maria ” one that enables them to feel and hear the sound of living things.

Master Georgie
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Master Georgie

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Master Georgie is the centripetal presence in a novel set in the time of the Crimean War. It unfolds through the narratives of three protagonists who are linked with Georgie by an incident in the past which changed their lives.

Frank Films
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Frank Films

Robert Frank has always faced up to one thing only, himself. That is shown by this work, the films even more than the photographs. This book is dedicated to Frank's film even more than the photographs. This book is dedicated to Frank's film and video oeuvre, which grew and developed impressively in the years between 1959 and 2002, though unnoticed by most of the world. ...

Northern Lights
  • Language: en

Northern Lights

When Kataujaq's mother dies, her grandmother tells her about the Inuit tradition that the Northern Lights are the souls of the dead, playing soccer with a walrus head for a ball

American Realities
  • Language: en

American Realities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In 2010, more Americans lived below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at 'TIME', commissioned photographer Joakim Eskildsen to capture the growing crisis, affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data, the places with the highest poverty rates were chosen when Eskildsen, together with journalist Natasha del Toro, traveled to New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Georgia over seven months to document the lives of the people behind the statistics. The people Joakim Eskildsen has portrayed are people who struggle to make ends meet, who have lost their jobs or homes, and often live in unhealthy conditions. They usually remain invisible in the American society to which the myth of the American Dream is still very strong. Many of the people held there was no such dream anymore, merely the American Reality.

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