Provence : a cultural history /
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| Author / Creator: | Garrett, Martin. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xxx, 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Landscapes of the imagination |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6203638 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Continuities
- Landscape: "infinitely complex chiselling"
- The Rhone and the Durance: "Poor Bunbury"
- The Mistral and the Cicada: "I hear the symphonist more than I could wish"
- "Their fervid temperament knows no control": Dissident Southerners
- Occitan and the Troubadours
- "That detestable corruption of Italian and French"
- Restoring the Language: the Felibrige
- "The rational, right and proper food"
- "Oh, for a beaker full of the warm South": Wine
- Chapter 1. Papal Provence: Avignon
- The "Babylonian Captivity"
- The Palace of the Popes: "an impregnable fortress, a luxurious palace, a horrible prison"
- The Grand Tinel; Pope Clement's Feast
- Painting the Palace
- Notre-Dame des Doms
- "Sur le pont d'Avignon": the Pope's Mule
- The Petit Palais and the Musee Lapidaire
- The Musee Calvet
- The Avignon Festival
- Villeneuve-les-Avignon
- Chapter 2. Petrarch's Provence
- Carpentras
- Mont Ventoux
- Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Discoursing with Love
- L'Isle sur la Sorgue: "delicious streams"
- Salon-de-Provence
- Orange: "the most beautiful wall"
- Vaison-la-Romaine
- Grignan
- Chapter 3. Van Gogh's Provence Part One: Aries
- Van Gogh's Arles: "to express, with red and green, the terrible passions of humanity"
- The Arena
- The Theatre: "sisters of Mireille"
- Place du Forum and the Cryptoportiques
- Les Alyscamps
- The Musee de l'Arles Antique
- Saint-Trophime: "so cruel, so monstrous, like a Chinese nightmare"
- The Musee Reattu and the Museon Arlaten
- Montmajour
- Chapter 4. Van Gogh's Provence Part Two: The Alpilles
- Saint-Paul-de-Mausole: "light turning into conflagration"
- Les Antiques
- Glanum
- Saint-Remy-de-Provence
- Les Baux: "bastions and buttresses and coigns of vantage"
- Chapter 5. Roy Campbell's Provence: The Camargue
- "The Four Winds dry their wooden shoes": Martigues
- The Plaine de la Crau: "goblins of light"
- The Camargue: "the verges of the earth"
- Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer: "the blue whiteness of the Milky Way"
- Saint-Gilles
- Aigues-Mortes: "a bright, quiet melancholy"
- Chapter 6. King Rene's Provence: Aix
- Entremont and Aquae Sextiae
- Le Bon Roi Rene
- Saint-Sauveur
- The Burning Bush
- The Musee des Tapisseries and the Musee du Vieil Aix
- "The houses very high and the streets ample"
- The Hotel de Forbin: Royal Views
- Aix-la-Somnolente
- Zola's Plassans
- Cezanne and the Montagne Sainte-Victoire
- The Musee Granet
- Saint-Maximin and La Sainte Baume
- Chapter 7. Marcel Pagnol's Provence: Marseille
- "Damned picturesque place"
- Massalia: "turning towards the Greeks"
- Vestiges: the Musee d'Histoire de Marseille, Musee des Docks Romains and Centre de la Vieille Charite
- Passing Through
- Royal Arrivals
- Plague
- Pagnol's Vieux-Port
- The Holocaust and the Destruction of the Vieux-Port
- Galleys and Prisons; the Chateau d'If
- "Black Docker": Claude McKay and Ousmane Sembene
- Churches and Cathedrals
- Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation
- Aubagne and La Treille
- Souvenirs d'enfance
- Cassis: "brilliant yellow and ink black"
- L'Estaque: "masterful smears and smudges"
- Chapter 8. The Provence of Jean Giono and Henri Bosco
- Roussillon
- Lourmarin
- Lacoste: "making a spectacle of oneself"
- Menerbes: "the darling buds of Mayle"
- Cereste
- Manosque and Jean Giono
- Le Contadour: "une experience a la Bobi"
- Chapter 9. Alphonse Daudet's Provence: Nimes
- The Maison Carree and the Carre d'Art
- The Arena and Le Charroi de Nimes: "they will have bull fights"
- "Seething with Heresy": Religion in Nimes
- The Tour Magne and the Temple of Diana
- The Pont du Gard: "the measuring, contriving mind"
- Tarascon: the Tarasque
- Tartarin de Tarascon: "Prodigious Adventures"
- Tarascon: the Chateau du Roi Rene
- Beaucaire
- Fontvieille and Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin
- St.-Michel-de-Frigolet
- Maillane: "Happy lizard, drink your sun"
- Uzes
- Appendix. Some Other Places of Interest
- Further Reading
- Index of Literary & Historical Names
