1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451783003321

Autore

Duffy Jean H

Titolo

Claude Simon [[electronic resource] ] : A Retrospective

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-78138-049-X

1-84631-285-X

1-4175-6810-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts

Altri autori (Persone)

DuncanAlastair

Disciplina

843.914

843/.914

Soggetti

Simon, Claude

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Message from Claude Simon to the Participants at the Conference held in May 1999; Introduction: The Critical Reception of Claude Simon since the 1960's; 1: Thinking History Otherwise: Fiction and the Sites of Memory in Claude Simon; 2: (In)Commensurabilities: The Childhood of Events and the Shock of Encounter in Claude Simon; 3: Instant Replays: The Reintegration of Traumatic Experience in Le Jardin des Plantes; 4: The Dynamics of Conflict in the Novels of Claude Simon; 5: Satire, Burlesque and Comedy in Claude Simon

6: The Garden of Forking Paths: Intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes7: A partir du Jardin des Plantes: Claude Simon's Recapitulations; 8: Supplementary Organs: Media and Machinery in the Late Novels of Claude Simon; 9: One Step Further: Claude Simon's Photographies 1937-1970; 10: Truth, Verbiage and Ecriture in Le Jardin des Plantes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simon's fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). From a variety of perspectives -



postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic - contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simon's work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in...

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967767203321

Titolo

Ending Africa's wars : progressing to peace / / edited by Oliver Furley and Roy May

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2006

ISBN

1-315-57951-0

1-317-14380-9

1-317-14379-5

1-281-09706-3

9786611097066

0-7546-8089-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FurleyOliver

MayRoy

Disciplina

327.1/72096

Soggetti

Peace-building - Africa

Political stability - Africa

Conflict management - Africa

Africa Economic conditions

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

Africa's wars : overview, causes and the challenges of conflict transformation / Richard Jackson -- Post-settlement governance programmes : what is being built in Africa? / Bruce Baker -- Society, reconciliation and conflict transformation in post-war Africa / Andrew Rigby -- Disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration in Africa / Joanna Spear -- Multi-party mediation in the Guinea-Bissau civil war / Simon Massey -- Democratic Republic of Congo : problems of the peacekeeping process / Emeric Rogier -- Uganda : the struggle



for peace / Oliver Furley -- Elusive settlement : Angola's 'peace processes', 1975-2002 / Norrie MacQueen -- A separate peace : Mozambique, state reconstruction and the search for sustainable democracy / Chris Alden -- Peacemaking in Sudan / Peter Woodward -- Liberia : a durable peace at last? / Gerry Cleaver and Simon Massey -- A long prelude to peace : African involvement in ending Burundi's war / Roger Southall -- A sustainable peace? : Sierra Leone / Bruce Baker and Roy May.

Sommario/riassunto

Post-colonial Africa has seemingly been in an intractable state of conflict and war for a considerable period of time. This volume explores the process by which these wars were ended, discusses the lessons learnt, and examines the sustainability of recently reconciled conflicts to see how far peace solutions are permanent in this region.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910891644503321

Titolo

Council of Ministers Resolutions / / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : OECD Publishing

Paris : , : OECD Publishing, , 1967

ISSN

2309-9518

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

380.5

Soggetti

Transport

Transportation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

These reportsĀ  set out the Resolutions and Reports approved by the Council of Ministers of Transport during the year.under review.