Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…The result is both a new appreciation for Atkinson’s brilliance and a fresh approach to Ovid’s transformative masterpiece.…”
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La parole de l’autre. La communication extra-terrestre dans la série « Valérian » de Christin et Mézières by Franck Thibault

“…Since Les Mauvais Rêves in 1968, and then the first comic book La Cité des eaux mouvantes in 1970, the “Valérian agent spatio-temporel” comic series by Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin has developped along its 23 issues into a science fiction classic, and even, according to Stan Barets, “a classic of comics and a masterpiece of science fiction”. This article explores the way the authors gave the aliens a voice of their own. …”
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Alejo Venegas de Busto : un moraliste tolédan du xvie siècle face à l’hérésie by Marc Zuili

“…This paper will be based on his writings, especially the Agonía del tránsito de la muerte (1537) – a work described by Marcel Bataillon as «a masterpiece of ascetic literature at the time of Charles V». …”
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La cabane éclatée. Morcellement des objets immobiliers apparentés à l’art brut by Roberta Trapani

“…From that time, a slow process of artistic recognition was given to structures similar to this site, dubbed a masterpiece and named the Palais Idéal. Artists, critics, researchers and curators contributed to helping bring about a new world of art. …”
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Le Songe d’une nuit d’été de Benjamin Britten : Nouvel éclairage scénique de l’héritage shakespearien by Maéna Py

“…By insisting on the sensuality and the physical dimension of the play and on its capacity to celebrate drama and all theatrical arts, Britten seems to have been at the centre of an aesthetic and ideological renewal which was to be carried on later by Jan Kott and Peter Brook, among others, thus making him an important figure in the history of the performances of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.…”
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A critical analysis of “Si dovrebbe pensare più a far bene... Alessandro Manzoni: Il progetto di Dio, il lavoro dell'uomo” by Fatemeh Asgari

“…The volume of essays by Norberto Cacciaglia is particularly interesting for how  author manages to invite the reader's attention to the new historical details of Manzoni’s masterpiece I PromessiSposi,  highlighting unusual insights not always easily traceable if not through a new point of view. …”
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: “A CAMBRIDGE MASS”. ABOUT A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT AND A WORLD PREMIERE, IN CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO ALAN TONGUE by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“…Professor Alan Tongue edited the score, conducted the premiere in London, on March 3rd, 2011, thus delivering a youthful masterpiece of the English composer to the international concert life. …”
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Morgue of the Misbegotten: O’Neill’s Pattern of Salvation in The Iceman Cometh by Mufeed F. Al-Abdullah

“…This paper thus analyzes O’Neill’s masterpiece as a dramatization of his pessimistic vision of the world as a lodge of the misfortunate, of human life as a nightmare, and of death as the only way out. …”
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Ora sive labora? by Wojciech Zyzak

“…However we should never separate these two options neither put them in the form: “ora sive labora”, which has been provocatively used in the title of this paper. The true masterpiece of the lays’ life is to perform duties of Martha in the spirit of Mary, which does not necessarily mean the focus on God during one’s work. …”
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Critique of Loos’s Anti-Ornament Through Lucretius and Adorno by Levent Şentürk

“…In this article, I will stop by an ancient source, De Rerum Natura, Lucretius’ unaccomplished two-thousand-year-old masterpiece, and try to delve into the centuries-old roots of ornamentation much older than from Gottfried Semper’s Bekleidung (dressing) principle of the nineteenth century. …”
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Review to the roots of shamluâs poetic imagery by یعقوب نوروزی

“…In shamlu’s poem, life of a modern cities artistically is reflected and a also poet with a perfect masterpiece invents contemporary images from this type of life can be seen. …”
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L’œuvre d’Alan Berliner ou l’autobiographie comme l’affaire de tous by Jean-Luc Lioult

“…Nobody’s Business, possibly his masterpiece, draws a portrait of his own (reluctant) father and shuffles around History, individual life storytelling, psychodrama and genetics, to eventually convince us that the personal is universal.…”
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Riders to the Sea de Ralph Vaughan Williams : un hymne à la mer, indomptable et indomptée, qui unit les nations by Florence Le Doussal

“…Riders to the Sea: An opera in one act based on the play by John Millington Synge, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s fifth opera, composed between 1925 and 1932, after The Poisoned Kiss (A Romantic Extravaganza), was first performed at London’s Royal College of Music on December 1st, 1937, with Malcolm Sargent conducting. A masterpiece of poetic intensity and a compendium of pain and quiet, resigned courage, worthy of a Greek tragedy, the Irish dramatist’s play was faithfully adapted by the composer-librettist in a work whose originality and universal message cannot fail to impress. …”
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Féerie pour un scandale : l’art et la morale dans Lolita (1958) de Vladimir Nabokov by Jacques Sohier

“…The specious reasoning of the narrator makes Lolita a masterpiece of casuistry. Lolita creates a utopia beyond good and evil where the freedom of the reader can find in the sanctuary of art the proper place to exercise itself.…”
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Les études de Sergio Cigada, jalons incontournables de la critique flaubertienne by Liana Nissim

“…But we will focus above all on Cigada’s masterpiece Il pensiero estetico di Gustave Flaubert (1964). …”
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Sense and beauty bind in introduction of âJahangosha Joviniâ History by تورج عقدایی

“…Jahangosha Jovini`s history, originated from Atalolmolk Jovini, is a technical prose masterpiece in Persian language which is free from any ornate and tedious in comparison to other works such as Vassaf  (good describer) history. …”
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« This narrative is my written memory » : transcrire la mémoire dans David Copperfield de Charles Dickens by Céline Prest

“…Anticipating Marcel Proust’s autobiographical masterpiece, David is in search of lost time. He exhumes the memories stored in his mind, which has become an archival space preserving the traces of the past. …”
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Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé by Judit Maár

“…This choice may be surprising: why compare the novel traditionally – and possibly mistakenly – considered to be a first masterpiece of realism, and the poem taken for one of the most enigmatic texts of symbolism? …”
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تقنيات السير الذاتي في " تقرير إلى غريكو "لـ نيكوس كازانتزاكيس أنموذجا by Feghrour Hala

“…This research highlights the innovative methods Kazantzakis used to transform his autobiography into a poetic and philosophical masterpiece, addressing the interplay between identity, creativity, and redemption.     …”
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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…This article explores Martin Crimp’s use of Jung’s word association test in his masterpiece Attempts on Her Life (1997). In scenario 11, the playwright reproduces the list of one hundred stimulus words devised in 1909 by the psychoanalyst to test a patient’s mental health. …”
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