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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...

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

Camus' landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. ""The Stranger"" presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947623784Author Tony HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595136919Author Denise BonhommeFormat PaperbackPage Count 612Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 885g

In this distinctive gem of Proustian criticism, Inge Karalus Crosman defines the function of metaphor within the text. Given the metaphoric saturation of Proust's textual construction, Crosman's key to a universal interpretation is narrowed to those...

Volume 200 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892008Author Joy Nachod HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

The complete text is followed by a listing of proper names and a table of variants based on six other versions of the manuscript. The introduction gives the background of the author, the work, and the legend and discusses the seven versions and language...

In her study of Marie de France's twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Christian morality thus upending previous scholarship about this medieval work.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781081659370Author Gloria LauzanneFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 127g

Larrier breaks new ground in analyzing first-person narratives by five Francophone Caribbean writers - Joseph Zobel, Patrick Chamoiseau, Gisele Pineau, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde - that manifest distinctive interaction among narrators,...

In 1985, a conference entitled "Comment n'aimerais-je pas l'Angleterre! " Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne was organised in Manchester to celebrate the Victor Hugo centenary, as the second in a series of Vinaver Colloquia. The papers presented...

In The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative...

The 1987 The Vinaver Colloquium on Racine, held in Manchester in 1987, brought together an international gathering of scholars, whose contributions ranged over a variety of topics, including lexis, prosody and musicality, theatrical technique and tragic...

This book examines how modern French fiction writers have appropriated the ogre figure in order to evoke violence in all its voracity, as well as destructive time, which eats away the moments of our lives as the prototypical ogre of Western literature,...

A collection of critical essays discuss the works of the French author."Book InformationISBN 9780791076637Author Prof. Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Chelsea House PublishersPublisher Chelsea House Publishers

"Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert" explores the link between Herve Guibert, one of France's most provocative contemporary writers who died of AIDS in 1991, and the Marquis de Sade, the most notorious Enlightenment...

Capital Letters sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and...

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, French visual artists began incorporating Japanese forms into their work. The style, known as japonisme, spanned the arts. Identifying a general critical move from a literal to a more metaphoric understandingand...

This collection brings together methods and insights taken from literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, theory, film studies, and linguistics to define new parameters of study for the emerging field of francophone postcolonial studies. While...

Can literature make it possible to represent histories that are otherwise ineffable? Making use of the Deleuzian concept of ""the powers of the false,"" Doro Wiese offers readings of three novels that deal with the Shoah, with...

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 validity of the canon, and the viability of interdisciplinary studies to...

A widely recognized and respected authority on French literature, women's writing, feminist theory, and Jewish studies, Elaine Marks wrote groundbreaking books on Collette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jewish themes in French literature. ""In Memory...

This 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,...

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This work presents a critical perspective on many of the best-known texts of Algerian literature in French. It also discusses Maghrebian immigration into France; contemporary French writing about the Maghreb; and "nomadic" poststructuralist theories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469667409Author Dorothea HeitschFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance StudiesPublisher...

Volume 219 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892237Author Angela B. MoorjaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Alice Fiola Berry's study on the fundamental importance of language itself in the four books of Rabelais leads the reader down the path trod by Panurge and Pantagruel. Berry demonstrates how language and logos are the source of comedy, the focus of...

The author indicates that the presence of liturgy and allegory in Perceval may possibly indicate that Chretien was experiencing spiritual growth.Book InformationISBN 9780807890141Author Sister M. Amelia KlenkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJean DeJean is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fictions of Sappho (1546-1937) and co-editor, with Nancy Miller of...

The newly revised Le Francais: Depart-Arrivee, Fourth Edition, is a complete introductory and early intermediate program that teaches the basic structures and vocabulary of French language and culture, including colloquial French expressions and gestures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022886728Author Helmut Anthony HatzfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 553g