1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910567799503321

Autore

Holz Jean-Marc

Titolo

Les très riches heures : De l’histoire économique allemande / Jean-Marc Holz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Perpignan, : Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2022

ISBN

2-35412-352-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Soggetti

Economics

History

Allemagne

histoire économique

richesse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Comment expliquer la prééminence séculaire de l’économie allemande ? Quels en sont les ressorts ? Pourquoi cette vigueur toujours persistante en dépit d’une histoire mouvementée ? Pour répondre à ces questions, l’auteur analyse une quarantaine d’évènements à l’intersection du politique, du social, du technique et du culturel, qui constituent, du XVIe siècle à nos jours, les dates décisives de l’histoire économique de la « Grande Nation ». Classés par ordre chronologique, ces faits majeurs sont replacés dans leur contexte historique et analysés en détail jusque dans leurs prolongements contemporains. Chaque chapitre est indépendant, mais l’ensemble dresse le portrait d’une Allemagne solide et moderne, tandis que se dessine en filigrane celui d’une France bloquée qui s’appauvrit. Le texte clair, vivant, dense et précis est complété par des documents inédits (statistiques du XIXe siècle à 2017, cartes). L’ouvrage s’adresse aux enseignants, aux élèves de classes préparatoires, aux étudiants d’histoire, études germaniques, économie, études européennes, sciences politiques. Il intéresse également le public soucieux d’une information solide sur les fondements de l’économie allemande.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911069694203321

Titolo

Arthurian legend in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / / edited by Susan L. Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wilmington, DE : , : Vernon Press, , [2022]

ISBN

9781648893315

1648893317

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Vernon Press series in cinema and culture

Disciplina

398.2094202

Soggetti

Arthurian romances

Kings and rulers in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Kids and kings : postmodern nostalgia and youthful Arthurian cinematic retellings / Sarah Gordon -- Camelot 3000 and Dracula vs. King Arthur : The uses of limited-run comics as updates of the Arthurian legend for contemporary readers / Carl Sell -- The fate of Artoria : contextually exploring gender, character, and conflict in Fate/Zero / Tracey Thomas -- Gender and class in John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights / Susan L. Austin -- A kid wizard in King Arthur's court / Zainah Usman -- Chivalry and ambition in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King / Susan L. Austin -- Democratic dreams and the death of Arthur, king / Adrienne Major -- Killing Arthur : revising the Perceval myth in "Kingsman : The Secret Service" / Erin Mullally -- The death of the Fisher King in Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels / Susan L. Austin -- When Arthurian heroes fall : adapting moral failure and Christian redemption in the BBC's Merlin / Leah Hamilton.

Sommario/riassunto

The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller's time and values. The chapters in this book look at movies, manga, comic books, a television show, and traditional books released since 1960 to explore some of the ways King Arthur has been reimagined in the past 60 years. Interpreting Avalon High and The Kid Who Would Be King,



Camelot 3000 and King Arthur vs. Dracula, Fate/Zero, John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, the influence of Arthurian legend on Harry Potter, Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, John Boorman's Excalibur, Jerry Zucker's First Knight, Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur, Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service, Iris Murdoch's The Time of the Angels, and the BBC series Merlin, the authors find that while we are still interested in the idea of King Arthur, we may also want his story to be more racially and gender inclusive, less elitist, and in some cases, more secular.