CURSUS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Boek: Fantasia an Algerian cavalcade - Assia Djebar
In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Boek: Murder in Memoriam - Didier Daeninckx
Didier Daeninckx's chilling novel created uproar when it was first published in France in 1984. It is set against the backdrop of a demonstration in Paris in 1961, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Algerians at the hands of the police. In Daeninckx's story, Roger...
CURSUS: LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Boek: Sleeping Voice - Dulce Chacon
It is 1939 in the Ventas prison in Madrid: a group of women have been incarcerated for supporting or fighting on the Republican side in Spain’s devastating Civil War. Among them is Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe, a man still...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.' Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead - Stoppard, Tom
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character.
Based on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: If this is a man - Primo Levi
'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid,...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included--The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The...
CURSUS: EUROPESE LITERATUURGESCHIEDENIS 2 Boek: The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith
The 250th-anniversary edition of the influential treatise on social responsibility that has shaped leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama
Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral...
CURSUS: KENNIS, LETTEREN EN MAATSCHAPPIJ: BOEK Wetenschapsfilosofie voor geesteswetenschappen - Michiel Leezenberg, Gerard De Vries
Een overzicht van de historische en filosofische implicaties van het begrip geesteswetenschappen.
Letterkunde, taalkunde, geschiedenis, theologie en filosofie behoren alle tot de geesteswetenschappen. Sommige richten zich op het vinden van waarheid en het geven van...
