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Ovide Du Remede D'amours by Tony Hunt 9780947623784
$34.14Apologies 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: The Will of the French Revolution by Marie-Helene Huet 9780812216172
RRP: $50.68$46.68Mourning 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.Book... -
What Voltaire Tries to Tell Us: The Esoteric Substance of Voltairian Thought by Denise Bonhomme 9780595136919
RRP: $52.63$44.97Apologies 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 -
Metaphoric Narration: The Structure and Function of Metaphors in A la recherche du temps perdu by Inge Karalus Crosman 9780807892046
RRP: $58.40$47.05In 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... -
Two Against Time: A Study of the Very Present Worlds of Paul Claudel and Charles Peguy by Joy Nachod Humes 9780807892008
RRP: $58.40$55.56Volume 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... -
Adenet le Roi's Berte aus grans pies by Urban T. Holmes Jr 9780807890066
RRP: $58.40$58.15The 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... -
The Lay of Guingamor: A Study by Sara Sturm 9780807890769
RRP: $58.40$47.05In 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... -
Understanding french literature: analysis of the letters of Madame de Sevigne Analysis of the major letters of Mme de Sevigne by Gloria Lauzanne 9781081659370
RRP: $15.23$13.42Apologies 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 -
Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean by Renee Larrier 9780813030050
RRP: $117.00$94.85Larrier 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,... -
Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne. Actes du deuxieme colloque Vinaver, Manchester 1985 by A.R.W. James 9780905205311
RRP: $48.75$39.59In 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... -
The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France by Jeffrey N. Peters 9780810136984
RRP: $193.05$156.92In 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... -
Racine: Theatre et Poesie. Actes du troiseme colloque Vinaver, Manchester 1987 by Christine M. Hill 9780905205779
RRP: $48.75$39.59The 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... -
The Ogre's Progress: Images of the Ogre in Modern and Contemporary French Fiction by Jonathan F. Krell 9780874130652
RRP: $83.75$68.48This 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,... -
Emile Zola by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780791076637
RRP: $87.65$74.70A 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 by Clara Orban 9780934223973
RRP: $93.50$76.23"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: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty by Eve Morisi 9780810141513
RRP: $68.15$56.12Capital 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... -
Writing Japonisme: Aesthetic Translation in Nineteenth-Century French Prose by Pamela A. Genova 9780810132214
RRP: $193.05$157.70Beginning 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... -
Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies by H. Adlai Murdoch 9780813027760
RRP: $126.75$102.59This 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... -
The Powers of the False: Reading, Writing, Thinking beyond Truth and Fiction by Doro Wiese 9780810130043
RRP: $87.65$71.58Can 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... -
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom by Charles J. Stivale 9780873528054
RRP: $89.60$73.13Investigates 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... -
In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death by Richard E. Goodkin 9780299222307
RRP: $126.75$102.59A 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... -
French XX Bibliography No. 59: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885 by William J. Thompson 9781575911250
RRP: $230.10$187.32This 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,... -
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot by Keith L. Walker 9780822321439
RRP: $48.73$41.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Transfigurations Of The Maghreb: Feminism, Decolonization, and Literatures by Winfred Woodhull 9780816620555
RRP: $42.88$36.64This 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... -
Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond by Dorothea Heitsch 9781469667409
RRP: $126.75$116.08Apologies 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... -
Abysmal Games in the Novels of Samuel Beckett by Angela B. Moorjani 9780807892237
RRP: $58.40$56.28Volume 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... -
Rabelais: Homo Logos by Alice Fiola Berry 9780807892084
RRP: $58.40$55.50Alice 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... -
Liturgy and Allegory in Chretien's Perceval by Sister M. Amelia Klenke 9780807890141
RRP: $58.40$58.15The 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... -
Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Joan DeJean 9780231062305
RRP: $195.00$149.39Apologies 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... -
Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Joan DeJean 9780231062312
$74.74This treatise argues that women writers were the originators of the modern novel in France. It uses the novels of Scudery and Lafayette to illustrate how such works undermined French tradition by suggesting that women had a right to choose their husbands... -
Le Francais - Workbook by Jacqueline de la Chapelle Skubly 9781584656104
RRP: $54.60$54.19The 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... -
Literature Through Art: a New Approach to French Literature by Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld 9781022886728
RRP: $66.20$59.67Apologies 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 -
Le Francais - Instructor`s Manual - Depart Arrivee by John Rassias 9781584657422
RRP: $54.60$53.41The third of three connected volumes of Le Francais, making up a unique French language tutorial by the renowned creator of The Rassias Method(R)Book InformationISBN 9781584657422Author John RassiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dartmouth College... -
Siecle de Voltaire: Hommage a Rene Pomeau by Christiane Mervaud 9780729403528
$206.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403528Author Christiane MervaudFormat HardbackPage Count 1013Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Voltaire FoundationWeight(grams) 2475g -
Literature Through Art: a New Approach to French Literature by Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld 9781022893870
RRP: $44.75$40.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022893870Author Helmut Anthony HatzfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 381g -
The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually by Mieke Bal 9780804728089
RRP: $58.48$53.66The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a culture saturated with television and by an increased emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. From the viewpoint of our present culture, the author suggests, we... -
How to Read Beauvoir by Stella Sandford 9780393329513
RRP: $29.25$25.08The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Simone de Beauvoir's... -
Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton 9780875806860
RRP: $33.13$26.95Shedding 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... -
An Essay On French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry by Jacques Barzun 9780811211581
RRP: $23.38$23.09In An Essay on French Verse-For Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzun's many-faceted and entertaining study muses on six hundred years of French verse, its rules and forms and how... -
The Tongue Snatchers by Claudine Herrmann 9780803272521
$27.71Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and...