This volume of edited essays is the first one in English to offer a critical overview of the specific features of Belgian modernity from 1880 to 1940 in a multiplicity of disciplines: literature and poetry, politics, music, photography and drama. The first half of the book investigates the roots of twentieth century modernity in Belgian fin de siecle across a variety of genres (novel, poetry and drama), not only within but also beyond the boundaries of Symbolism. The contributors go on to examine the explosion of Belgian culture on the international scene with the rise of the avant-gardes,...
This volume of edited essays is the first one in English to offer a critical overview of the specific features of Belgian modernity from 1880 to 1940 ...
Cet ouvrage compose de 13 chapitres, actes d une conference intitulee La Belgique entre deux siecles: laboratoire de la modernite, qui s est tenue a Oxford en Janvier 2004, a pour objet la litterature, l art et la culture de la modernite en Belgique au tournant des 19e et 20e siecles. De nature interdisciplinaire et internationale dans son approche, cet ouvrage regroupe des travaux varies qui portent aussi bien sur des personnalites marquantes du monde artistique (Maeterlinck, Verhaeren ou Ensor) que sur des etudes plus larges sur l Art Nouveau en Belgique, sur les liens entre...
Cet ouvrage compose de 13 chapitres, actes d une conference intitulee La Belgique entre deux siecles: laboratoire de la modernite, qui s est te...
V. Y. Mudimbe Pierre-Philippe Fraiture Daniel Orrells
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English.
Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth...
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of k...
V. Y. Mudimbe Pierre-Philippe Fraiture Daniel Orrells
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English.
Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth...
A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of k...
