Simone de Beauvoir, la narration en question

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Ben Nyce

"Unlike other books on Martin Scorsese that favor the discussion of broad themes and plot summaries. Scorsese Up Close: A Study of the Films also looks at the cinematic text of the great director's films. With a scrutiny comparable to the detail Scorsese brings to the shooting and editing process, author Ben Nyce examines particular shots and sequences of shots in many of the director's works. By focusing on these key components. Nyce explains how the visual and aural elements of such scenes dramatize Scorsese's singular vision."--BOOK JACKET.

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Sophie Boyer

Oscillant sans cesse entre angoisse et fascination, le regard porté sur le corps féminin par ces deux poètes se révèle un véritable baromètre des mentalités masculines au XIXème siècle. Apparaissant tour à tour sous les traits de la prostituée, du vampire, du cadavre, de la sphinge ou de la statue, la femme subjugue l'homme moderne et le confronte, par le jeu de la séduction, à l'énigme de sa propre identité. A travers l'image qu'ils créent de la femme, Heine et Baudelaire ont élaboré un nouveau langage de l'amour aux dimensions divines et politiques, voire même révolutionnaires.

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Barbara Voglino

"The vast difference in the quality of the plays written by Eugene O'Neill during his thirty-year career as a dramatist (1913-43) has evoked considerable wonder among critics. The fact is, nothing in O'Neill's forty-five theatrical endeavors of varying merit prior to 1939 suggests the unmistakable touch of genius which radiates from his last plays - A Touch of the Poet (1939), The Iceman Cometh (1940), Long Day's Journey into Night (1941), Hughie (1942), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943)."--BOOK JACKET. "At least one valid explanation for this phenomenon is the greatly improved endings of the late plays."--BOOK JACKET. "To date no one has attempted to account for the disparity in quality between O'Neill's earlier and late work by means of a thorough examination of his play-endings. In "Perverse Mind" author Barbara Voglino performs this long-neglected function concerning the work of the artist considered by many to be America's foremost dramatist by studying nine plays - three from approximately each decade of O'Neill's career - in the light of contemporary closure theories."--BOOK JACKET.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

An anthology of nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems, including in their entirety his books "Nature: Addresses, and Lectures," "Essays: First and Second Series," "Representative Men," and "The Conduct of Life," as well as his volumes of poetry and other essays, addresses, and poems from his manuscripts.