Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was an influential French writer widely considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. Life[edit] Early life and education[edit] Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime department of Upper Normandy, in northern France. Personal life[edit] From 1846 to 1854, Flaubert had a relationship with the poet Louise Colet; his letters to her survive. The house where Flaubert was born With his lifelong friend Maxime Du Camp, he traveled in Brittany in 1846. Flaubert was very open about his sexual activities with prostitutes in his writings on his travels. The 1870s were a difficult time for Flaubert. Writing career[edit] Perfectionist style[edit]
Dante Alighieri Durante degli Alighieri (Italian: [duˈrante ˈdeʎʎi aliˈɡjɛːri]), simply called Dante (Italian: [ˈdante], UK /ˈdænti/, US /ˈdɑːnteɪ/; c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.[1] In Italy he is called il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" and "the three crowns". Dante is also called "the Father of the Italian language".[2] Life[edit] Portrait of Dante, from a fresco in the Palazzo dei Giudici, Florence Dante claimed that his family descended from the ancient Romans (Inferno, XV, 76), but the earliest relative he could mention by name was Cacciaguida degli Elisei (Paradiso, XV, 135), born no earlier than about 1100. Dante in Verona, by Antonio Cotti Legacy[edit]
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʃɑ̃bo]; 1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping the Thirteen Colonies win independence during the American Revolution. During this time, he served as commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force that embarked from France in order to help the American Continental Army fight against British forces. Military life[edit] American Revolution[edit] Landing of a French auxiliary army in Newport, Rhode Island on 11 July 1780 under the command of the comte de Rochambeau. In 1780, Rochambeau was appointed commander of land forces as part of the project code named Expédition Particulière.[1] He was given the rank of Lieutenant General in command of some 7,000 French troops and sent to join the Continental Army under George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Return to France[edit] Legacy[edit] Honors[edit] Memoirs[edit] Legacy[edit]
Brilliant Comic of Banksy's Call To Arms Against Advertisers Banksy is an anoynomous English street artist and activist who has become a cult hero for his anti-establishment and rebellious artwork. Unlike someone I know, who stays in his house all day drawing comics and watching Simpsons reruns, Banksy is a REAL artist who challenges the status quo, forces people to think and puts himself in danger, all while remaining a complete mystery to the world. I mean think about it, he’s one of the most famous artists on the planet, his work has been popping up in major cities for the past 10 years and sell for millions of dollars and no one knows who the hell this guy is! If you haven’t seen it, I recommend the documentary Banksy directed, Exit Through the Gift Shop. This quote was taken from Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out.
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (/frɔɪd/;[2] German pronunciation: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏ̯t]; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881,[3] and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital.[4] Upon completing his habilitation in 1895, he was appointed a docent in neuropathology in the same year and became an affiliated professor (professor extraordinarius) in 1902.[5][6] Psychoanalysis remains influential within psychotherapy, within some areas of psychiatry, and across the humanities. As such, it continues to generate extensive and highly contested debate with regard to its therapeutic efficacy, its scientific status, and whether it advances or is detrimental to the feminist cause.[10] Nonetheless, Freud's work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture.
Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot They met in Oxford in March 1915, while he was studying philosophy at Merton College and she was working as a governess in Cambridge; they were married in Hampstead Register Office three months later. They remained married until her death in 1947, but Vivienne's poor physical and mental health, and Eliot's apparent intolerance of it, produced a stormy relationship, made worse by Vivienne apparently having an affair with the philosopher Bertrand Russell.[4] Eliot arranged for a formal separation in February 1933, and shunned her entirely, hiding from her and instructing his friends not to tell her where he was. Her brother, Maurice, had her committed to an asylum in 1938, after she was found wandering the streets of London at five o'clock in the morning, apparently asking whether Eliot had been beheaded. "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me "Speak to me. "What are you thinking of? "I never know what you are thinking. Early life[edit] Health and education[edit] Oh—Vivienne!
Auguste Comte French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857) Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (French: [oˈɡyst kɔ̃t] ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)[6] was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.[7] Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.[8] Influenced by Henri de Saint-Simon,[6] Comte's work attempted to remedy the social disorder caused by the French Revolution, which he believed indicated imminent transition to a new form of society. Life[edit] Following his return to Montpellier, Comte soon came to see unbridgeable differences with his Catholic and monarchist family and set off again for Paris, earning money by small jobs. In 1824, Comte left Saint-Simon, again because of unbridgeable differences.
The abandoned Scottish island where Picts went to heal Apart from the odd boat tour and visiting wildlife ranger sent to check on its impressive population of seabirds and seals, the Isle of May has long been abandoned by humans. But more than 1,000 years ago, the Isle of May in the mouth of the Firth of Forth was a place bustling with human life - and served as a place of sanctity and care for those close to death. Breakthrough research published earlier this year identified the island as a centre for healing during the Pictish era, when people with serious illnesses ventured to the outcrop on their last journey to seek refuge with the island’s monks. READ MORE: Gaming board found in search for Pictish monastery The extraordinary findings were made using skeletons excavated by archaeologist Peter Yeoman 20 years ago with the cadavers examined once again in recent times by Dr Marlo Willows as part of her PhD studies at Edinburgh University. READ MORE: The sleepy village once home to a bustling Pictish community
1856 - Madame Bovary A Life of Vivienne Eliot (Newspaper) Tom Eliot cut an impressive figure when he arrived in England. To Vivienne Haigh-Wood, meeting him for the first time in March 1915, he seemed an old-fashioned American 'prince' and his 'deep and thrilling voice' with its slow drawl added a dash of glamour. Vivienne was a young woman who, as she wrote years later, found 'the shout of the baseball team... deep, stirring, madly exciting'. Despite Eliot's nervousness with the opposite sex and fear of the 'practical side' of a relationship, there is plenty of evidence that women found the shy but handsome poet sexually attractive. Unhappy and lonely at Oxford, where he was a visiting philosophy fellow at Merton, he decided he much preferred metropolitan life and began to spend time in London, where among more highbrow pursuits he enjoyed dancing parties at large hotels. Vivienne was popular and this naturally increased her desirability for Eliot. Vivienne's eager response to Tom's poetry fostered their relationship.
John Dryden 17th-century English poet and playwright John Dryden (; 19 August [O.S. 9 August] 1631 – 12 May [O.S. 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.[1] Early life[edit] Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was rector of All Saints. As a humanist public school, Westminster maintained a curriculum which trained pupils in the art of rhetoric and the presentation of arguments for both sides of a given issue. Later life and career[edit] After the Restoration, as Dryden quickly established himself as the leading poet and literary critic of his day, he transferred his allegiances to the new government. Dryden, by James Maubert, c. 1695 Frontispiece and title page, vol. In his will, he left The George Inn at Northampton to trustees, to form a school for the children of the poor of the town. Reputation and influence[edit] References[edit]
UN Says Climate Genocide Coming. But It’s Worse Than That. You now have permission to freak out. Photo: George Rose/Getty Images Just two years ago, amid global fanfare, the Paris climate accords were signed — initiating what seemed, for a brief moment, like the beginning of a planet-saving movement. But almost immediately, the international goal it established of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius began to seem, to many of the world’s most vulnerable, dramatically inadequate; the Marshall Islands’ representative gave it a blunter name, calling two degrees of warming “genocide.” The alarming new report you may have read about this week from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which examines just how much better 1.5 degrees of warming would be than 2 — echoes the charge. If you are alarmed by those sentences, you should be — they are horrifying. Because the numbers are so small, we tend to trivialize the differences between one degree and two, two degrees and four. It is. That is not to say it’s over or we’re doomed.
Wiki Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Culture"). It is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works.[1] Overview[edit] In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. Freud's theory is based on the notion that humans have certain characteristic instincts that are immutable. Synopsis[edit] Freud begins this work by taking up a possible source of religious feeling that his previous book, The Future of an Illusion, overlooked: the oceanic feeling of wholeness, limitlessness, and eternity.[2] Freud himself cannot experience this feeling of dissolution, but notes that there do indeed exist different pathological and healthy states (e.g. love) where the boundary between ego and object is lost, blurred, or distorted. Historical context[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
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