Continuum, Volume 4AMS Press, 1992 - French literature |
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Page 66
... European classical tradition is usually active in pose : figures bend , turn , run , dance , fight , etc. Further testimony to the status of the Chinese in French culture is provided by the category of images called singeries . These ...
... European classical tradition is usually active in pose : figures bend , turn , run , dance , fight , etc. Further testimony to the status of the Chinese in French culture is provided by the category of images called singeries . These ...
Page 101
... European civilization , first in recovered Egyptian obelisks in Rome , and later from missionary accounts of China . China and Egypt had mysterious written languages , unknown histories , great accomplishments , and represented ...
... European civilization , first in recovered Egyptian obelisks in Rome , and later from missionary accounts of China . China and Egypt had mysterious written languages , unknown histories , great accomplishments , and represented ...
Page 116
... European experience . Both seem to have invoked European myth - making impulses , possibly because of an irrational allure generated by their very strangeness . Jacques Ellul wrote , about departed power : " When a civilization dies ...
... European experience . Both seem to have invoked European myth - making impulses , possibly because of an irrational allure generated by their very strangeness . Jacques Ellul wrote , about departed power : " When a civilization dies ...
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assez autres avait Baroque bien c'est caractère century chanson China Chine Chinois chinoiserie cœur commedia dell'arte Comte Corésus critique d'autres d'une deux Diderot Dieu dix-huitième siècle Dom Juan Don Giovanni Don Juan effet également Egyptian elle emblem emblem books essay été être fait femme figures fois Fragonard's française France French grand Gueullette Histoire homme idées Jésuites Juan's l'amour l'auteur l'esprit l'histoire l'image l'Orient la Chine La Religieuse lecteur Lenclos Lettres libertinage libertine littéraire livre Louis lumière Marquis de Sévigné matière mise en abyme missionnaires Molière Molière's monde Montaigne moral mort n'est nature Ninon novel œuvre Orient orientale ouvrages painting Paris passion pensée Père peut philosophical Pierre plaisir play politique porcelain premier qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un quelques Quinet récit Religieuse religion Renaissance rhetoric rien Salon sculpture seduction seul Sévigné Sganarelle Sganarelle's sujet Tartuffe théâtre tout tradition Vaux-le-Vicomte voir Voltaire