Peter V Conroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 790197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter V Conroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter V |
| FAMILY NAME | Conroy |
| SIGNATURE | CONROY P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tsinghua University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reason to Hope? Arendt, Foucault, and the Escape from Politics into History
On many occasions between the early 1950s and her death in 1976, Hannah Arendt argued that modern Western thought exhibited a recurring desire to “escape from politics into history.” What did she mean by this claim, and how valid was it, particularly in her own lifetime? This article explores these questions in two parts. The first part reconstructs her critique of the turn toward “the philosophy of history” in the modern age, and argues that her…
New History in France
New History in France
Crebillon fils
La Fete Galante
"Marivaux's "The Colony
Dramatic Theory and Eighteenth-Century Gardens
The formal or French garden and the English or landscape garden coexisted in England after 1720 and in France after 1750. Even though Le Nôtre belonged to the epoch of Louis XIV, his disciples continued to work in the same style throughout the eighteenth century. Moreover, the gardens of Versailles, his masterpiece, were constantly rearranged under Louis XV so that we can almost consider them an eighteenth-century product. In the second half of t…
The Metaphorical Web in Zola's Nana
In the vast fresco of the Second Empire that he painted in his series of novels about the Rougon and Macquart families, Emile Zola turned his reporter's eye and his thirst for documentation to the principal areas of life in France, even to the Parisian demi-monde. Published in 1880, Nana, the story of Anna, daughter of Gervaise Macquart and Coupeau, depicts the nocturnal, shadowy life of the music hall and the glittering, extravagant existence of…
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The Metaphorical Web in Zola's Nana
In the vast fresco of the Second Empire that he painted in his series of novels about the Rougon and Macquart families, Emile Zola turned his reporter's eye and his thirst for documentation to the principal areas of life in France, even to the Parisian demi-monde. Published in 1880, Nana, the story of Anna, daughter of Gervaise Macquart and Coupeau, depicts the nocturnal, shadowy life of the music hall and the glittering, extravagant existence of…
Dramatic Theory and Eighteenth-Century Gardens
The formal or French garden and the English or landscape garden coexisted in England after 1720 and in France after 1750. Even though Le Nôtre belonged to the epoch of Louis XIV, his disciples continued to work in the same style throughout the eighteenth century. Moreover, the gardens of Versailles, his masterpiece, were constantly rearranged under Louis XV so that we can almost consider them an eighteenth-century product. In the second half of t…
La Fete Galante
"Marivaux's "The Colony
Crebillon fils
New History in France
New History in France
Reason to Hope? Arendt, Foucault, and the Escape from Politics into History
On many occasions between the early 1950s and her death in 1976, Hannah Arendt argued that modern Western thought exhibited a recurring desire to “escape from politics into history.” What did she mean by this claim, and how valid was it, particularly in her own lifetime? This article explores these questions in two parts. The first part reconstructs her critique of the turn toward “the philosophy of history” in the modern age, and argues that her…
Historical and Literary Analyses (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)