1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792391103321

Autore

Adams Michael <1972->

Titolo

Napoleon and Russia / / Michael Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Hambledon Continuum, , 2006

ISBN

0-8264-3193-3

0-8264-4212-9

1-4725-9995-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (596 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

940.27

Soggetti

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - Campaigns - Russia

France Foreign relations Russia

Russia Foreign relations France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-571) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: 1812 and All That -- 2 Revolution and War     -- 3 Unintended Consequences -- 4 The World Turned Upside Down -- 5 Alexander  and Amiens -- 6 Russia's Road to War -- 7 Austerlitz -- 8 Prussia's Gambit -- 9 The Bloodbath in the Snow -- 10 Friedland -- 11 Tilsit -- 12 At the Crossroads -- 13 Death of an Alliance -- 14 War or Peace? -- 15 The Greatest Enterprise -- 16 Invasion    -- 17 Moskva -- 18 Retreat -- 19 The Russians March West -- 20 Disaster in Germany -- 21 On to Paris! -- 22 A New, Old Europe -- 23 Final Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index --   --

Sommario/riassunto

Napoleon and Russia tells, for the first time, the full story of Napoleon and his crucial relationship with Russia, from the 1790s and Bonaparte's rise to power, through the period of Austerlitz, Tilsit and the Russian invasion, to the Emperor's fall and its aftermath. In doing so, it not only puts the critical events of 1812 in their proper context as part of an even greater tale - of peace as well as war, friendship as well as enmity - but also provides fresh insight into the Napoleonic period as a whole, questioning many of the assumptions about the era prevalent in the English-speaking world. The tale boasts a cast of



fascinating characters to rival any novel: the rulers, Napoleon himself, Catherine the Great, 'Mad' Tsar Paul and the enigmatic Alexander I; generals such as Ney, Murat, Davout, Suvorov, Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly; statesmen like Talleyrand, Caulaincourt, Czartoryski and Rumiantsev; and, of course, the ordinary soldiers who fought some of the most intriguing, bloody and important campaigns in history. This is an enthralling story of fundamental importance in the history of Europe and, indeed, the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822887803321

Titolo

Imaginary films in literature [[e-book] /] / edited by Stefano Ercolino, Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, Luca Zenobi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2015

ISBN

90-04-30633-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Studies in comparative literature ; ; v. 82

Altri autori (Persone)

ErcolinoStefano <1985->

FusilloMassimo <1959->

LinoMirko

ZenobiLuca

Disciplina

809.93357

Soggetti

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Motion pictures and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi -- Introduction / Massimo Fusillo -- Notes toward a Theory of Cinematic “Ekphrasis” / James A.W. Heffernan -- The Killing Vision: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest / Stefano Ercolino -- “Writing the Making of”: A New Literary Genre? / Jan Baetens -- “A Film Run in Installments”: Memory and Cinema in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder / Vincenzo Maggitti -- Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot / Clotilde Bertoni -- Paul Auster, Hector Mann and The Book of Illusions / Anna Scannavini -- Mañana en



la batalla piensa en mí: Cinema, Theatre, Television and the Creative Force of the Word / Federica Ivaldi -- “Quo vadis – Kino?” Kurt Pinthus and the Theoretical Debate on the Birth of Cinema in Germany / Luca Zenobi -- The Outer Life of Martin Frost, or Never Make an Imaginary Film / Silvia Albertazzi -- On Conceiving (and Sometimes Not Succeeding in Making) a Film / Giulio Iacoli -- The “Quasi-Truth”: Literature and Cinema in Starnone and Piccolo / Gianluigi Simonetti -- Breakfast at the Prater: Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men / Gian Piero Piretto -- Alpdrücken and the Spectrum of Power in Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon / Mirko Lino -- Pattern Recognition: The “Postcinema” Seen by William Gibson / Simone Arcagni -- Bibliography / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi -- Index / Stefano Ercolino , Massimo Fusillo , Mirko Lino and Luca Zenobi.

Sommario/riassunto

Since cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis , the literary description of a visual work of art. Imaginary Films in Literature deals with a specific and significant case within this broad category: the description of imaginary, non-existent movies – a practice that is more widespread than one might expect, especially in North American postmodern fiction. Along with theoretical contributions, the book includes the analyses of some case studies focusing on the borders between the visual and the literary, intermedial practices of hybridization, the limits of representation, and other related notions such as “memory”, “fragmentation”, “desire”, “genre”, “authorship”, and “censorship”.