Derval conroy (135 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781900621571.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. Slight wear to edges of jacket.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Corners lightly bumped. Internally unmarked.

Softcover/Paperback. Zustand: As New. Author: Conroy, Derval | Release Date: 25-11-2016 | EAN: 9781527204348 | Languages: English | Binding: paperback | Item Condition: UsedLikeNew.

Zustand: New. pp. 240.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Zustand: New. 1st ed. 2016.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xiv + 250 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of minor handling wear, a white mark on the rear board. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Dust jacket shows gentle shelfwear, a small area of superficial damage on the rear panel, minor residue of a removed sticker (rear panel). -- The thirteen essays in this collection by an outstanding group of French, German, and Irish scholars explore the relevance and interest of tragic theater today. They balance the exploration of themes as contemporary as the abuse and enjoyment of power, the unsettling pleasure to be derived from staged suffering, the unpredictability of the passions, and the authority of women. -- Contents: Introduction / Edric Caldicott & Derval Conroy; 1. The Racinian Hero and the Classical Theory of Characterization / Georges Forestier; 2. Racine's Use of Maxims / Jean Louis Backès; 3. Women and Power in Britannicus and Bérénice: The Battle of Blood and Tears / Christian Biet; 4. Gender, Power and Authority in Alexandre le Grand and Athalie / Derval Conroy; 5. Constructions of Identity: Mirrors of the 'Other' in Racine's Theatre / Jane Conroy; 6. Racine's 'Jacobite' Plays: The Politics of the Bible / Edric Caldicott; 7. Les frères ennemis: Racine, Molière, and 'la querelle du théâtre' / Robert McBride; 8. Voltaire, Women and Reception: Racine in the Eighteenth Century / Marc Serge Rivière; 9. Pleasure in Racine / Louis van Delft; 10. The Majesty and Pleasure of Bérénice Today / Jean-Michael Delacomptée; 11. Esther: Prototype of an Oratorio? The Collaboration of Racine and Jean-Baptiste Moreau / Susanne Hartwig & Berthold Warnecke; 12. Moreau as Teacher: The Impact of his Vocation on the Composition of Esther / Gráinne Gormley; 13. Racine and the Three Vanities / Alain Viala; Index.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 1st edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP.

Paperback. Zustand: New. 1st ed. 2016. Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gynæcocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly) the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable and engaging, Conroy's work will appeal to those interested in the history of women in political thought and the history of feminism, in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and history of ideas.…

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Zustand: New. In English.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.