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David Hockney

A Life

By: Catherine Cusset

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Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I could recognise myself." --David HockneyWith clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving home for the Royal College of Art in London his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalised, and because of his inclination for a figurative style of art, which was not sufficiently "contemporary" to be valued. Trips to New York and California--where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools--introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, David Hockney: A Life offers an insightful overview of a painter whose art is as accessible as it is compelling, and whose passion to create has never been deterred by heartbreak or illness or loss.

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1911350803

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The Story of Jane

By: Catherine Cusset

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The Story of Jane

By: Catherine Cusset

As she leaves her apartment one day, she discovers a package addressed to her in the foyer of her building. Opening it, she discovers that it's a novel - entitled The Story of Jane. As she starts to read, she realizes that the novel is all about her - her and her love life, or failure at love, to be more exact.".

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Simon and Schuster

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0743202996

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Life of David Hockney

A Novel

By: Catherine Cusset

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Life of David Hockney

A Novel

By: Catherine Cusset

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Advocate “Catherine Cusset’s book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself.” —David Hockney With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter. Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not sufficiently “contemporary” to be valued. Trips to New York and California—where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools—introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic. A compelling hybrid of novel and biography, Life of David Hockney offers an insightful overview of a painter whose art is as accessible as it is compelling, and whose passion to create has never been deterred by heartbreak or illness or loss.

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Other Press, LLC

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1590519841

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No Tomorrow

The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

By: Catherine Cusset

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No Tomorrow

The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

By: Catherine Cusset

In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls "the present enjoyment of the senses." She contends libertine works are not, as is commonly thought, characterized by the preaching of sexual pleasure but are instead linked by an "ethics of pleasure" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being. Developing Roland Barthes's concept of "the pleasure of the text," the author argues that the novel is a powerful vehicle for moral lessons, more so that philosophical or moral treatises, because it conveys such lessons through pleasure." (Midwest).

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University of Virginia Press

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081391860X

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9780813918600

American Idyll

Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique

By: Catherine Liu

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American Idyll

Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique

By: Catherine Liu

A trenchant critique of failure and opportunism across the political spectrum, American Idyll argues that social mobility, once a revered hallmark of American society, has ebbed, as higher education has become a mechanistic process for efficient sorting that has more to do with class formation than anything else. Academic freedom and aesthetic education are reserved for high-scoring, privileged students and vocational education is the only option for economically marginal ones. Throughout most of American history, antielitist sentiment was reserved for attacks against an entrenched aristocracy or rapacious plutocracy, but it has now become a revolt against meritocracy itself, directed against what insurgents see as a ruling class of credentialed elites with degrees from exclusive academic institutions. Catherine Liu reveals that, within the academy and stemming from the relatively new discipline of cultural studies, animosity against expertise has animated much of the Left’s cultural criticism. By unpacking the disciplinary formation and academic ambitions of American cultural studies, Liu uncovers the genealogy of the current antielitism, placing the populism that dominates headlines within a broad historical context. In the process, she emphasizes the relevance of the historical origins of populist revolt against finance capital and its political influence. American Idyll reveals the unlikely alliance between American pragmatism and proponents of the Frankfurt School and argues for the importance of broad frames of historical thinking in encouraging robust academic debate within democratic institutions. In a bold thought experiment that revives and defends Richard Hofstadter’s theories of anti-intellectualism in American life, Liu asks, What if cultural populism had been the consensus politics of the past three decades? American Idyll shows that recent antielitism does nothing to redress the source of its discontent—namely, growing economic inequality and diminishing social mobility. Instead, pseudopopulist rage, in conservative and countercultural forms alike, has been transformed into resentment, content merely to take down allegedly elitist cultural forms without questioning the real political and economic consolidation of powers that has taken place in America during the past thirty years.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380517

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Victorine

By: Catherine Texier

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Victorine

By: Catherine Texier

In 1899, Victorine Texier abandons her small French village, her husband, and her two young children to follow her lover to Indochina. She has fallen for Antoine, her childhood sweetheart, and when his work sends him to Asia she is compelled to go with him, and to leave everything she knows behind. Their five weeks together onboard the ship to Indochina are a kind of honeymoon, a prelude to their liberation in a sultry new world of frangipani trees and monsoons. Victorine gives herself over completely to this exhilarating new life of colonial extravagance — that is, until she encounters her youngest sister, who has also been living in Hanoi and Saigon. This reunion, both joyous and tense, reminds Victorine all too painfully of her life and family in France and forces her to confront exactly what she has done. Vividly narrated through a series of flashbacks, Victorine is a richly textured and passionate story of rebellion, guilt, and unruly love.

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0385721269

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No Tomorrow

The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

By: Catherine Cusset

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The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment

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Life of David Hockney

A Novel

By: Catherine Cusset

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A Novel

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Indigo

roman

By: Catherine Cusset

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Indigo

roman

By: Catherine Cusset

Un festival culturel rassemble pendant huit jours en Inde quatre Français, deux hommes et deux femmes, qui ne se connaissent pas. Une surprise attend chacun d'eux et les confronte avec leur passé. Cette semaine bouleverse leur vie. De Delhi à Kovalam, dans le Sud, ils voyagent dans une Inde sur le qui-vive où, juste un an après les attentats de Bombay, se fait partout sentir la menace terroriste. Une Inde où leur jeune accompagnateur indien déclare ouvertement sa haine des États-Unis. Une Inde où n'ont pas cours la légèreté et la raison françaises, où la chaleur exacerbe les sentiments, où le ciel avant l'orage est couleur indigo. Tout en enchaînant les événements selon une mécanique narrative précise et efficace, ce nouveau roman de Catherine Cusset nous fait découvrir une humanité complexe, tourmentée, captivante.

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2070138380

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The Story of Jane

By: Catherine Cusset

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Amours transversales

By: Catherine Cusset

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Amours transversales

By: Catherine Cusset

Quand elle avait quitté le studio à la tombée de la nuit, elle était éperdument amoureuse, elle juive, d'un Allemand trouvé en Italie. Il était beaucoup plus âgé qu'elle: trente-trois ans. Pendant des mois elle n'avait pu se réveiller sans voir le visage de Hans. Elle lui avait écrit une lettre. Il n'avait pas répondu. Elle n'avait jamais oublié Hans et cette délicatesse qui l'avait conduit à la laisser vierge. Le souvenir de Hans habite Myriam, qui est mariée à Xavier, qui tombe amoureux de Camille, qui rencontre Luis, qui aime Margarita, qui est morte. Ainsi s'entrelacent les fils de ces amours transversales - ces amours qui ne sont pas celles sur lesquelles on fonde sa vie, mais qui n'en sont pas moins importantes - jusqu'à la tragédie finale.

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Editions Gallimard

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2070745295

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Frances Burney's Cecilia

A Publishing History

By: Catherine M. Parisian

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Frances Burney's Cecilia

A Publishing History

By: Catherine M. Parisian

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.

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1409418200

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David Hockney

David Hockney

The Story of Jane

The Story of Jane

Life of David Hockney

Life of David Hockney

No Tomorrow

No Tomorrow

American Idyll

American Idyll

Victorine

Victorine

No Tomorrow

No Tomorrow

Life of David Hockney

Life of David Hockney

Indigo

Indigo

The Story of Jane

The Story of Jane

Amours transversales

Amours transversales

Frances Burney's Cecilia

Frances Burney's Cecilia

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