Janet Whatley
Biographic Data
| ID | 807109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Whatley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Whatley |
| SIGNATURE | WHATLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise called America, Containing the Navigation and the Remarkable Things Seen on the Sea by the Author; the Behavior of Villegagnon in That Country; and…
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil . Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World
Savage Hierarchies
Food and the Limits of Civility
La Double Inconstance
La Double Inconstance est une piece terrible, says the Count in Anouilh's La Repetition. C'est proprement l'histoire elegante et gracieuse d'un crime.' This is hyperbole; La Double Inconstance is a real comedy, both in formal structure and in its capacity to make us laugh. The central event, if it is a crime, is certainly not simply a crime. The Count does sum up a whole current of reaction to this play, which Marcel Arland calls rhistoire d'une …
Un Retour secret vers la forět
L'Orient désert
In the conventionalized Mediterranean world in which Racine sets Bérénice, Rome is the very embodiment of order, energy, and virtue, while the Orient stands for formlessness, passivity, and emptiness. The Orient, like Africa or the newly-discovered Americas, is merely a particular case of what we call the 'exotic,' or that which is not us. The structures of the exotic world being incomprehensible to us, it is for our purposes structureless. The a…
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil . Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World
L'Orient désert
In the conventionalized Mediterranean world in which Racine sets Bérénice, Rome is the very embodiment of order, energy, and virtue, while the Orient stands for formlessness, passivity, and emptiness. The Orient, like Africa or the newly-discovered Americas, is merely a particular case of what we call the 'exotic,' or that which is not us. The structures of the exotic world being incomprehensible to us, it is for our purposes structureless. The a…
La Double Inconstance
La Double Inconstance est une piece terrible, says the Count in Anouilh's La Repetition. C'est proprement l'histoire elegante et gracieuse d'un crime.' This is hyperbole; La Double Inconstance is a real comedy, both in formal structure and in its capacity to make us laugh. The central event, if it is a crime, is certainly not simply a crime. The Count does sum up a whole current of reaction to this play, which Marcel Arland calls rhistoire d'une …
Un Retour secret vers la forět
Food and the Limits of Civility
Savage Hierarchies
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise called America, Containing the Navigation and the Remarkable Things Seen on the Sea by the Author; the Behavior of Villegagnon in That Country; and…
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
When the famous anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: Jean de Léry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil . Léry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World
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