The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755—1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made Vigée Le Brun a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, she nevertheless managed to thrive as an independent, self-supporting artist, doggedly setting up studios in Rome, Naples, Venice, Milan, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and London. Long overlooked or dismissed, Vigée Le Brun’s portraits now hang in the Louvre, in a room of their own, as well as in all leading art museums of the world. This gripping biography tells the story of a singularly gifted and high-spirited woman during the revolutionary era and explores the development and significance of her art. The book also recounts the public and private lives of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, connecting her with such personalities of her age as Catherine the Great, Napoleon, and Benjamin Franklin, and setting her experiences in the context of contemporary European politics and culture. A generous selection of illustrations, including sixteen of Vigée Le Brun’s portraits presented in full color, completes this exceptional volume.
Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun (1755-1842), nee a Paris, est une peintre francaise. Elle compte au nombre des plus grands portraitistes de son temps, comme Quentin de La Tour ou Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Elle ne reviendra a Paris que six ans plus tard pour entrer comme pensionnaire a l'ecole du couvent de la Trinite. A onze ans, la jeune fille quitte le couvent et vient vivre aux c'tes de ses parents. On dit qu'a l'epoque, elle se trouve laide et sans grace, mais des ses quatorze ans elle est une des plus belles femmes de Paris. Inconsolable, a la mort de son pere en 1767, elle decide de tout donner a ses passions que sont, la peinture, le dessin, le pastel. Le succes d'Elisabeth ne se dement pas. Ses portraits de femmes a la fois ressemblants et flatteurs finissent par lui attirer la sympathie de Marie-Antoinette qui fait d'elle son peintre favori. Ce sera la protection de la reine, traduite par un ordre de Louis XVI qui lui permet d'etre recue a l'Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture en 1783.
The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.
Annotation A study of how the physical processes of learning to play a piece of music can enrich and inform the mental process of studying and analyzing the music, using the cello music of Luigi Boccherini as a case study.
Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun (1755-1842), nee a Paris, est une peintre francaise. Elle compte au nombre des plus grands portraitistes de son temps, comme Quentin de La Tour ou Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Elle ne reviendra a Paris que six ans plus tard pour entrer comme pensionnaire a l'ecole du couvent de la Trinite. A onze ans, la jeune fille quitte le couvent et vient vivre aux c'tes de ses parents. On dit qu'a l'epoque, elle se trouve laide et sans grace, mais des ses quatorze ans elle est une des plus belles femmes de Paris. Inconsolable, a la mort de son pere en 1767, elle decide de tout donner a ses passions que sont, la peinture, le dessin, le pastel. Le succes d'Elisabeth ne se dement pas. Ses portraits de femmes a la fois ressemblants et flatteurs finissent par lui attirer la sympathie de Marie-Antoinette qui fait d'elle son peintre favori. Ce sera la protection de la reine, traduite par un ordre de Louis XVI qui lui permet d'etre recue a l'Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture en 1783.
Leseur (1866-1914) was a French lay women whose work touched suffering, devotions, and lay and feminist spirituality. Contains selections from her entire corpus, including her letters, which have never before appeared in English.
Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. This book contributes to the study of media roles in politics with a methodological discursive communication identity framework and its application to a corpus of editorials. This allows for the definition of editorials as a genre, and it reveals that, thanks to a very adroit interweaving of their socio-cultural identities, news media can play a much more active role on the political stage than studies on framing and agenda setting have hitherto shown. The place of media in political communication models might therefore need to be reviewed. This book is intended for all those interested in media and politics whatever their academic specializations.
How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every day in such dialogues through the phenomenon of the “international media echo” in which they report on each others’ societies. Until now, media have only been investigated for their potential role in the foreign policy of specific states. In a case study involving media in three national cultures and languages (French, American and Russian), this book presents an interdisciplinary framework that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses for the study of the international media echo in an intercultural / international relations perspective. In particular, the fundamental functioning of “spirals of anti-Other rhetoric”, i.e. media wars, is examined in a Critical Discourse Analysis approach completed with Social Identity Theory and International Relations theories.
In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs—and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring—have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force. In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered. She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche League—an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism—showing how on-demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers—one cause of the West's alarming decline in birthrate. A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.
Potential impact aroma compounds of gin have been identified using Gas Chromatogry Olfactometry Mass-Spectrometry (GC-O-MS). In order to select some of them for a recombination study, we developed a specific procedure. Instead of only choosing the compounds on criteria such as their odor quality or their odor activity values, we also used physico-chemical parameters and information on their botanical origin. Data were organized in blocks homogeneous in terms of parameter type. Different statistical treatments were used in order to classify the compounds either by analyzing the parameters altogether or separately block by block.
This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding CD which is separately (ISBN: 9781444144895). Follow this course for 35 minutes a day and in six weeks you'll be speaking French! Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable. By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Französische Philologie - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Veranstaltung: Arzt und Krankheit im französischen Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Biologie des 19. Jahrhunderts sah die Natur als Objektwelt mit eigenen Gesetzen. Die sichtbaren, äußeren Merkmale verloren an Bedeutung und das eigentliche Interesse lag auf dem Körper als Funktionszusammenhang von Organen. Für die Interaktion zwischen den Organen wurde eine fundamentale Lebensenergie gedacht. Dieser Ansatz ist vitalistischen Ursprungs. Die Vertreter des Vitalismus waren der Überzeugung, dass jedem Lebewesen eine „vis vitalis“ (Vitalkraft) innewohnt, die am Ursprung des Körpers steht, den Körper am Leben hält, über Wohlbefinden oder Krankheit entscheidet und schließlich schwindendes Potential hat. Weiterhin herrschte die Vorstellung, dass diese Lebensenergie endlich sei. Diese Denkfigur einer fundamentalen Vitalkraft machte das Zentrum des neuen Wissens vom Körper im 19. Jahrhundert aus. Die Lebensenergie sei eine dem Körper selbst innewohnende Energie. Es herrschte die Vorstellung von einer eigengesetzlichen Kraft, welche die Quelle aller Lebensäußerungen sei. Die These der vorliegenden Arbeit lautet, dass Émile Zola diese biologisch-vitalistische Denkfigur einer fundamentalen Lebensenergie in seinem Werk „Le docteur Pascal“ als permanentes Substrat zu Grunde legt und in exzessiven Momenten sowohl auf literarischer als auch textlicher Ebene in den Protagonisten eine transgressive, wilde und unkontrollierbare Vitalkraft verankert. Émile Zola behandelt in seinem Roman „Le docteur Pascal“ als großes Sujet die Möglichkeiten der Medizin als Wissenschaft, sowie die des Arztes. Er wagt weiterhin den Versuch, Ursprünge und Gründe für Krankheiten zu begründen. Zu beiden Themengebieten bedient er sich der Studien von zeitgenössischen Wissenschaftlern. Während die Wissenschaft – wie bereits oben erwähnt – den Funktionszusammenhang der Organe ins Zentrum ihres Interesse stellt, fokussiert Zola das entgrenzende Potential, das Unkontrollierbare der fundamentalen Lebensenergie. Dabei gilt in der vorliegenden Arbeit der Darstellung dieser fundamentalen Lebensenergie ein besonderes Interesse. Wie beschreibt Zola diese Lebensenergie und welches Potential schreibt er ihr zu? Im ersten Teil der Arbeit soll das permanente vitalistische Substrat, welches dem Text zugrunde liegt, herausgearbeitet werden. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit beleuchtet die Szenen im Roman, in denen die Wildheit und Transgressivität der Vitalkraft besonders hervortritt.
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Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
In this collection of articles, Kari Elisabeth Børresen and Kari Vogt point out the convergence of androcentric gender models in the Christian and Islamic traditions. They provide extensive surveys of recent research in women's studies, with bio-socio-cultural genderedness as their main analytical category. Matristic writers from late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are analysed in terms of a female God language, reshaping traditional theology. The persisting androcentrism of 20th-century Christianity and Islam, as displayed in institutional documents promoting women's specific functions, is critically exposed. This volume presents a pioneering investigation of correlated Christian and Islamic gender models which has hitherto remained uncompared by women's studies in religion. This work will serve scholars and students in the humanistic disciplines of theology, religious studies, Islamic studies, history of ideas, Medieval philosophy and women's history.
The first complete edition of Elizabeth Stuart's letters ever published. Volume I covers the years between 1603 and 1631: Elizabeth's life as princess and consort, charting her transformation from political ingenue to independent stateswoman.
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