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Excerpt from L'Hypnotisme Revenu à la Mode: Histoire Et Discussion ScientifiqueVenons au programme. Donato se déclare un simple disciple de Mesmer. Plusieurs fois il pro teste que ses expériences doivent s'appeler mes mériqnes ou magnétiques, et non hypnotiques. Il est vrai néanmoins que leur caractère les classe évidemment parmi celles que beaucoup de savants appellent hypnotiques. Hypnotisme en soi signifie sommeil, et il pourrait bien aussi...

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Jean Franco is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the winner of the 1996 PEN award for lifetime contribution to disseminating Latin American literature in English, and has been recognized by both the Chilean and Venezuelan governments with the Gabriela Mistral Medal and the Andres Bello Medal for advancing literary scholarship on Latin American literature in the United States. Her previous bo...

Constitutes the proceedings of the Third Franco-Japanese Symposium on Singularities in Geometry and Topology, held in Sapporo in September 2004. This title contains not only research papers on the advanced topics in the field but also some survey articles, which give a broad scope of some areas of the subject.

Analyzing the conditions under which dehumanizing cruelty came to be used by states and rogue groups in Latin America, Jean Franco argues that acts of extreme cruelty and the ways they are rationalized are defining features of modernity.

The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. < i>

Where is the common ground for feminist theory and Latin American culture? Jean Franco explores Mexican women's struggle for interpretive power in relation to the Catholic religion, the nation, and post-modern society, and examines the writings of women who wrote under the shadow of recognized male writers, as well as the works of more marginal figures. In this original and skillfully written book Franco demonstrates the many feminisms that em...

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since.

This book provides a thorough review of the latest research developments regarding the mechanisms by which oxidative stress and redox signalling mediate Parkinson's Disease.

Excerpt from L'Hypnotisme Revenu à la Mode: Histoire Et Discussion ScientifiqueVenons au programme. Donato se déclare un simple disciple de Mesmer. Plusieurs fois il pro teste que ses expériences doivent s'appeler mes mériqnes ou magnétiques, et non hypnotiques. Il est vrai néanmoins que leur caractère les classe évidemment parmi celles que beaucoup de savants appellent hypnotiques. Hypnotisme en soi signifie sommeil, et il pourrait bien aussi...

This is the first full-length study in English of the poetry of the Peruvian, C sar Vallejo (1892 1938).

This is a revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's classic Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, first published in 1969 and much recommended ever since.

The eight short stories in this collection by Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Camilo Jose Cela and other writers in Spanish have been chosen both for their literary merit and for being representative of twentieth-century Spanish-American writing. The English translations that are printed in a parallel text are literal rather than literary, and there are additional notes on the text.