407 results for '"Pierre Peretto'

DOSSIER PG - RAPATRIES 1940-1945Recueil de témoignages, d'informations et de commentaires sur les activités, en France, des Prisonniers de guerre (PG), évadés ou rapatriésavant 1945, dans...

What has the land of Israel meant for the Jewish imagination? This book provides a lively and readable answer, covering Biblical times to the present. Its aim is to pierce the mystery of the images...

Trente-cinq ans après l'Holocauste, quinze à vingt ans après le douloureux départ des pieds-noirs d'Afrique du Nord, les juifs sont-ils toujours et simplement des "Français de confession israélite",...

Pourquoi, dans la Grèce ancienne, les hommes refusaient-ils de se regarder dans un miroir ? Et pourquoi en réservaient-ils l'usage aux femmes ? A partir d'un très riche matériau littéraire et...

« Un homme voudrait mourir. Il prévoit de se jeter dans le fleuve, dans un endroit désert, et, parce qu'il craint de flotter, il dit : « Je mettrai deux lourdes pierres dans les poches de ma veste ;...

An illustrated examination of a work—a Warhol that isn't by Warhol—that embodies a shift in attitudes about artistic authorship and originality.Warhol Marilyn (1965) is not a work by Andy Warhol but...

A unique and definitive reader on our "national passion"--buying stuff--and its consequences for American society. We are citizens, owners and workers, believers and heathens, but today more than...

Mapping the class divisions that run throughout EuropeOver the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the...

In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that--except for special cases--all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. This conjecture...

On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the “Nouveaux Réalistes” (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, “The New Realists recognize their...

"A biography [of Nobel Prize winner Madame Curie] that stirs the heart and the mind by a fine counterpoint of sense and sensibility, a great story superbly told."--New York TimesMarie Sklodowska...

As this beautiful volume testifies, the life of Gisele Freund (1908–2000) was populated by a glamorous cast of characters. Famed for her documentary photographs of 1930s Britain and Germany on the...

Originally presented as a speech to the German Academy for Language and Poetry on the occasion of Celan's acceptance of the Georg Büchner Prize for literature, The Meridian is one of, if not the most...

Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields—including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer...

From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book--the first to examine the...

En 1920, le Parti nazi déclare son adhésion au christianisme positif dans son programme politique.D'une perspective religieuse, une analyse des ouvrages d'Adolf Hitler et d'Alfred Rosenberg nous...

Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust ever presented in a single volume. Through the works of men and women, Jews and...

An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary canon.Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory’s Cultural Capital has been a signal...

Foucault's suggestion that this century would become known as "Deleuzian," was considered by Deleuze himself to be a joke "meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid."...

Hegel or Spinoza is the first English-language translation of the modern classicHegel ou Spinoza. Published in French in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the...