La Guerre Est Finie is an exciting movie on two counts. It is, I think, the most successful representation on film we have had so far of the archetypal political drama of our time, in which a man's psychological need to make ideological com...

La intención de un escrito puede estar dictado a causa de las presuras de las expectaiones de la audiencia.   También, el escritor puede tener una predisposición para alcanzar un objetivo a través de su escrito. &nb...

SOURCE: "Hugo's Légende des Siècles," in Literary Reviews and Essays, edited by Albert Mordell, Twayne Publishers, 1957, pp. 136–38. In following review of La légende des siècles, which was originally published in The Nation in May 3,...

SOURCE: Silk, Sally M. “When the Writer Comes Home: Narrative Failure in Butor's La Modification.” Style 26, no. 2 (summer 1992): 270–86. In the following essay, Silk challenges Butor's critics who view La Modification as a narrative ...

SOURCE: A review of La Moustache, in The French Review, Vol. LX, No. 6, May, 1987, pp. 904-05. In the following mixed review of The Mustache, Solomon contends that "Carrère has some difficulty sustaining the premise of his novel—maintain...

Like L'Avventura, Blow-Up concerns the search for something that is never found. As in La Notte, the peripatetic hero fails to accomplish anything. Like the other protagonists, the photographer is the embodiment of a role, although here he ...

La Peyr 1676): His Life, Work and Influence. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1987....

La mayoría de las representaciones del encuentro de las Américas retrata los españoles como cruel a los nativos americanos.  Estos representaciones también describen los indigenos como desnudos y como no muy intelig...

La Rochefoucauld, Duc FranÇois De(1613–1680) Duc François de La Rochefoucauld, the French epigrammatist and moral critic, was born in Paris; he was known as the prince de Marcillac until he succeeded his father in 1650....

SOURCE: "Ophuls and the Romantic Tradition," in Yale French Studies, No. 17, Summer, 1956, pp. 3-5. In the following essay, Archer identifies Ophuls as the most controversial figure in French cinema. La Ronde opens with the introduction of ...

L.A. Story is a 1991 English language movie directed by Mick Jackson and written by Steve Martin . This film article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of film articles , to determine how to edit this article to ...

With La Terra Trema, Visconti developed the neo-realist approach to a dramatic subject in its most extreme form: the players, the lines they speak, the places they live in, the whole social background and motivation, depart hardly at all fr...

The audience responded to separate theatrical moments, touches, stunts in [La Turista], though it could not follow the alogic of the play, to use [an] appropriate term. It did follow the play's drift, its strident tone, its attitude of abus...

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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty....

Marie Laberge belongs to a new generation of Quebec dramatists. The author of some seventeen plays, twelve of which have been produced in theaters in Quebec and sometimes elsewhere, she has also written a novel and taught classes in theate...

Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. He who labours, prays. He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your ...

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