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The Body Beseiged: The Embodiment of Historical Memory in Nina Bouraoui and Leila Sebbar by Helen Vassallo brings together the work of two important contemporary writers, Nina Bouraoui and Leila Sebbar. Both authors embody a significant historical divide...

Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) that reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France by giving voice to those who find themselves marginalized by French society. While...

Jean Genet's masterpiece Les Negres was first published in 1958, in the midst of the Algerian war, and first performed at the Theatre de Lutece in Paris in October 1959. Yet even though the play is more than 50 years old, it remains a fundamental...

Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of...

"What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. "What is Literature?"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379698Author James P GilroyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 313g

With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer's times than in the writer. Perhaps more than any other major French writer, Corneille must be resurrected from the...

Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling-pity, compassion, and charitable care-that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of...

Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteenth-century France. Considering how...

Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science...

Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in...

The author draws upon the methodologies of theater and cultural studies to examine the construction of "the Orient" on the Parisian stage during the nineteenth century, the period of France's first imperial expansions into North Africa and the...

The Song in the Story is the first full-length examination of lyric insertions in medieval French literature. Boulton's discussion of the function of the literary device is firmly placed in the context of contemporary rhetorical theory and the literary...

In his newest book, Radical Indecision, esteemed scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or the values embodied in it, decisions in turn based on some...

Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French countryside estate, far from her native Ile Bourbon (now Reunion). Written in 1832, the novel appeared during a period of French history...

Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy, Corneille, and Racine created a dramatic form that would...

Volume 163 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891636Author Karlis RacevskisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest...

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Drawing on varied Francophone texts, the scholars brought together in this volume offer a compelling study, which puts the body and its relationship to its ecologies at the forefront. The notion of body itself points to numerous perspectives across...

How did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today? The writers and artists of the French avant-garde aspired to reach a global audience that would be wholly transformed by...

Breaking with a powerful tradition among scholars that insists that Beckett's Irishness is no more than an accident of birth, Harrington provides compelling evidence to the ways in which many of Beckett's best-known texts are deeply involved in Irish...

Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally...

Julia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090122995Author Gloria LauzanneFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

What do Bono, Seinfeld and Apple have in common? Nothing. However, it's the nothing of Samuel Beckett, which is something. Bold and provocative, Beckett's works and even his image are a potent force in modern society. Shoes, marketing, baby names-all...

The works of Francois Rabelais embody the Renaissance spirit of discovery and are crucial to the development of early modern prose and to the birth of the novel. This volume's essays present strategies for the classroom, discussing the classical and...

A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (Les Fleurs du Mal [Flowers of Evil]) and prose poems (Le Spleen de Paris [Paris Spleen]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict...

The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential...

A cross-section of current work in autobiographical studies, ""Soi-disant"" brings together essays on Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Jean Genet, Jeanne Hyvrard, Amelle Nothomb, Yves Navarre, Catherine Pozzi, Marie Bashkirtself, and...

"Excellent. . . . Offers both a valuable introduction to the romance for general readers while at the same time serving substantial fare to a specialized public."--Matilda T. Bruckner, Boston College "Groundbreaking discussions of a...

Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Contributors consider questions about the scope of French studies, the...

These essays explore the various manifestations of the heroine in medieval French literature and her multiple relationships with discourse, both medieval and modern. From a discussion of 12th-century saints' lives to an examination of 15th-century farce,...

A sympathetic, nuanced exploration of the fiction and turbulent life of this best-selling author A best-selling novelist in the 1930s, Irene Nemirovsky (1903-1942) was rediscovered in 2004, when her Suite Francaise, set during the fall of France and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873529099Author Elyane Dezon-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Language Association of AmericaPublisher Modern Language Association of...

Throughout his career and in the decades following his premature death in 1960, Albert Camus gained a large and avid international readership. He has also attracted the interest of scholars from many disciplines, specialists in literature, theater,...

The annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope, thoroughness, and reliability of information, it has become an essential...

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France has been celebrated as the period of conversation. Salons flourished and became an important social force. Women and men worked together, in dialogue with their contemporaries, other texts, and their culture to...

Nights of Storytelling is the first book to present and contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui generis in the relatively little-known French Pacific. Extracts from literary, ethnographic, and historical works in English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872498143Author Philip H. SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 179Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press