150 idées pour emmerder le monde by Laurent Gaulet

By Laurent Gaulet

Un nouveau titre de Laurent Gaulet dans los angeles assortment Petit livre… spécial mauvais esprit ! one hundred fifty idées pour faire tourner en bourrique anonymes ou amis. Glisser un string dans le caddie d’une petite mamie juste avant qu’elle ne passe à l. a. caisse, se garer en biais sur trois areas sur le parking d’Auchan un samedi après-midi, tenir une dialog très intime dans le métro à l’heure de pointe… Un Petit livre essentiel pour sourire à ces idées sournoises ou s’en inspirer en cas de coup dur !

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Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish by John V. Kelleher

By John V. Kelleher

A set of eighteen severe essays and twenty-six translations spanning the profession of 1 of the found­ing intellects of Irish experiences, the chosen Writings of John V. Kelleher on eire and Irish the US contains 5 available sections. the 1st gathers Kelleher’s essays at the most generally recognized Irish cultural phe­nomenon—the literary renaissance of the early 20th century. half includes his really apt tests of Irish literature in its post-Revolutionary section. The 3rd part comprises Kelleher’s in­sightful essays at the adventure of the Irish in the US. The fourth part comprises essays that ex­amine early Irish literature and tradition, establishing with a benchmark essay for Irish experiences, “Early Irish His­tory and Pseudo-History,” which was once learn on the inau­gural assembly of the yank convention for Irish experiences in 1961. the gathering concludes with Kelleher’s translations and variations of poems in outdated, heart, and glossy Irish, illustrating his com­mand of the language at each level.

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Emerson and his legacy: essays in honor of Quentin Anderson by Stephen Donadio, Professor Stephen Railton, Professor Ormond

By Stephen Donadio, Professor Stephen Railton, Professor Ormond Seavey

The essays proceed a discussion among the recent England of Emerson and the recent York milieu of the early Thirties. the hot York discussion flourished between in­tellectuals at the same time eager about the political outcomes of liber­alism and Marxism and with the imag­inative implications of modernism. In either classes the vexing dating be­tween politics and literary expression was once a typical concern. Contributors, a few of whom write approximately Emerson, a few approximately Quentin Anderson, are Jacques Barzun, Stephen Do­nadio, Denis Donoghue, Aaron Fogel, Carl Hovde, Steven Marcus, Stephen Railton, Ormond Seavey, Peter Shaw, Timothy Trask, Diana Trilling, and Paul Zweig.

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Improvvisi per macchina da scrivere by Giorgio Manganelli

By Giorgio Manganelli

Il ticchettio della macchina da scrivere, in line with Giorgio Manganelli, nasce «dai capricciosi amori di un cembalo estroso e di una mite mitragliatrice giocattolo». Non è un caso, dunque, che nei suoi "Improvvisi" un’incessante mutevolezza di melodie e di fraseggi (ossia di temi e di linguaggi) si accompagni a una tonalità ironico-umoristica percorsa da nere venature malinconiche.
Gli spunti (le «arie» su cui improvvisare) sono spesso offerti da un minimo fatto di cronaca, una polemica frivola, un provvedimento ministeriale bizzarro. l. a. notizia sulle rivendicazioni sindacali dei sagrestani, consistent with esempio, consente a Manganelli di elogiare l’operato di queste determine avvolte di «modesta, innocua magia»; l’attacco troppo facile della scienza alla parapsicologia lo spinge a una difesa paradossale («basta forse che una cosa non esista, perché sia impossibile frequentarla?»); e il ritorno domenicale delle targhe alterne gli ispira una pagina memorabile su chi legge Dostoevskij dopo vent’anni o si spezza una gamba according to sfruttare los angeles rapidità delle ambulanze nella città deserta. In ogni passaggio, queste improvvisazioni sono anche inversioni, capovolgimenti del senso comune. Da un lato, l. a. quotidianità più opaca assurge a una dimensione fantastica e metafisica, con los angeles banca trasformata in «un luogo strano», accanto alle stazioni ferroviarie, alle parrocchie di campagna e ai cimiteri. Dall’altro, i massimi sistemi slittano in una dimensione grottesca e prosaica, perché l. a. morte – questa «cosa ridicola» – è stupida «come è un po’ stupido sposarsi». Tutte le apparenze vengono così smascherate in un gioco demistificatorio che sembra fondere miracolosamente Lewis Carroll e Flaiano, e che produce l’effetto descritto da Pietro Citati: «lacrime di gioia, furori di ilarità», che distruggono «le istituzioni, i costumi, le abitudini, los angeles noia dell’esistenza quotidiana».

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The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius's by Gian Biagio Conte

By Gian Biagio Conte

The Satyricon of Petronius, a comic book novel written within the first century A.D., is known this day essentially for its extraordinary ceremonial dinner story, "Trimalchio's Feast." yet this episode is just one a part of the bigger photo of existence in the course of Nero's rule provided within the paintings. during this obtainable dialogue of Petronius's masterful use of parody, Gian Biagio Conte deals an interpretation of the Satyricon as a complete. He combines the scholarly precision of shut studying with an important, unique theoretical model.At the guts of his interpretation, Conte finds the means of the "hidden writer" that Petronius employs on the cost of his characters, specifically the teller of the tale, Enclopius. via final hidden open air the narrative, Petronius invitations the reader to grin on the folies de grandeur that ensue in a tradition of students and declaimers. but as Conte indicates, at the back of the parody and inexhaustible humor of the Satyricon lies an suddenly severe lament. For these acquainted with the Satyricon, in addition to for brand spanking new readers, Conte's booklet can be a competent, stress-free advisor to the wonders the Satyricon includes.

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Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray, Michael Marder

By Luce Irigaray, Michael Marder

Blossoming from a correspondence among Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an extreme own, philosophical, and political meditation at the value of the vegetal for our lives, our methods of pondering, and our relationships with human and nonhuman beings. The vegetal international has the aptitude to rescue our planet and our species and gives us how to abandon prior metaphysics with out falling into nihilism. Luce Irigaray has argued in her philosophical paintings that dwelling and coexisting are poor except we realize sexuate distinction as a very important measurement of our life. Michael Marder believes a similar is right for vegetal difference.

Irigaray and Marder think about how vegetation give a contribution to human improvement by means of maintaining our respiring, nourishing our senses, and protecting bodies and minds alive. They word the significance of returning to historic Greek culture and fascinating with japanese teachings to restore a tradition toward nature. for that reason, we will be able to reestablish roots after we are displaced and get well the important strength we have to increase our sensibility and relation to others. This generative dialogue issues towards a extra common manner of changing into human that's embedded within the vegetal world.

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Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural by Susan McClary

By Susan McClary

Between the waning of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, many primary facets of human behaviour - from expressions of gender to the adventure of time - underwent radical alterations. whereas a few of these modifications have been recorded in phrases, others have survived in non-verbal cultural media, particularly the visible arts, poetry, theatre, tune, and dance. Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression explores how artists made use of those a number of cultural kinds to grapple with human values within the more and more heterodox international of the 1600s.

Essays from admired historians, musicologists, and artwork critics study equipment of non-verbal cultural expression throughout the wide issues of time, movement, the physique, and international kinfolk. jointly, they convey that seventeenth-century cultural expression used to be greater than simply an embryonic degree inside of Western inventive improvement. as an alternative, the members argue that this era marks essentially the most profound alterations in eu subjectivities.

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Science, Technology and Culture (Issues in Cultural and by David Bell

By David Bell

This publication introduces scholars to cultural stories of technology and expertise. It equips scholars with an figuring out of technology and know-how as points of tradition, and an appreciation of the significance of brooding about technology and expertise from a cultural stories viewpoint. person chapters concentrate on themes together with renowned representations of technology and scientists, where of technological know-how and know-how in way of life, and the contests over novice, fringe and pseudo-science. every one bankruptcy contains case reviews starting from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear battle to microwave ovens. it's appropriate for college kids in cultural reports, media reports, sociology and technology and expertise experiences.

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The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 2: 1923-1925 by T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot, Hugh Haughton, Faber & Faber Ltd

By T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot, Hugh Haughton, Faber & Faber Ltd

Volume One: 1898–1922 provides a few 1,400 letters encompassing the years of Eliot's youth in St. Louis, Missouri, via 1922, during which time the poet had settled in England, married his first spouse, and released The Waste Land. because the first book of this quantity in 1988, many new fabrics from British and American resources have come to mild. greater than 200 of those newly found letters at the moment are incorporated, filling the most important gaps within the list and laying off new mild on Eliot's actions in London in the course of and after the 1st global War.

Volume : 1923–1925 covers the early years of Eliot's editorship of The Criterion, e-book of The hole Men, and his constructing thought of poetry and poetics. the amount bargains 1,400 letters, charting Eliot's trip towards conversion to the Anglican religion, in addition to his transformation from banker to writer and his appointment as director of the recent publishing residence Faber & Gwyer. The prolific and diverse correspondence during this quantity testifies to Eliot's becoming impression as cultural commentator and editor.

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