Автор: Dupont-Monod, Clara Название: The Revolt ISBN: 1529402905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529402902 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Kingdom of France, 1173. A remarkable queen rallies her sons against a tyrannical king - their father.
Автор: Dupont-Monod, Clara Название: The Revolt ISBN: 1529402883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529402889 Издательство: Hachette UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Kingdom of France, 1173. A remarkable queen rallies her sons against a tyrannical king - their father.
Описание: Offers an overview of international protocol and its associated practices, including those found within the context of diplomatic relations and the business world
Автор: Dupont, Marcel Название: Chasseur of 1914 ISBN: 1846771110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846771118 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3106.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This practical guide explains how to analyse a script of libretto, show how to develop a character building on material in the score, and gives the singing performer the tools to act believably. More than just a how to acting book, however, Acting for Singers addresses the problems of concenration, trust, and projection, among others, and includes concrete examples from opera and musical theatre.
Описание: Offers an overview of international protocol and its associated practices, including those found within the context of diplomatic relations and the business world
Автор: Monod Adolphe Название: Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness: Sharing Christ`s Victory ISBN: 1599252465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781599252469 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1766.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment.The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience's ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.
Автор: DuPont Eric Название: The American Fiancee ISBN: 0062947451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062947451 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 3029.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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In this extraordinary breakout novel--a rich, devastatingly humorous epic of one unforgettable family--award-winning author Eric Dupont illuminates the magic of stories, the bonds of family, and the twists of fate and fortune to transform our lives.
Over the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge, and death. Their complicated family dynamic--as dramatic as Puccini's legendary opera, Tosca--will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world . . . until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts.
Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family's patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother's teal eyes and his father's brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American Fianc e, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies' man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book.
An unholy marriage of John Irving and Gary Shteyngart with the irresistible whimsy of Elizabeth McCracken, The American Fianc e is a big, bold, wildly ambitious novel that introduces a dynamic new voice to contemporary literature.
--Patrick deWitt, author of French Exit
Автор: Dupont, Maite (universite Catholique De Louvain) Название: Conjunctive markers of contrast in english and french ISBN: 9027208468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027208460 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17530.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
This second volume delves into the intricate dynamics that surrounded the use of Scripture by North?African Christians from the late-fourth to the mid-seventh century CE. It focuses on the multivalent ways in which Scripture was incorporated into the fabric of ecclesial existence and theological reflection, as well as on Scripture’s role in informing and supporting these Christians’ decision-making processes. This volume also highlights?the?intricate theological and philosophical deliberations that were carried out between and among influential North African Christian leaders and scholars—in diverse cultural and geopolitical?settings—while paying attention to the complex manner in which these Scripture-laden discourses intersected the wide variety of religious?opinions and ecclesiastical and/or theological movements that so clearly marked this region in this era.
Winner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History
Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians’ intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality.
During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Ren?e Dupont richly details, white southerners’ evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy.
Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi’s religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi’s evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South.
