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The 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 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...

The 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...

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...

In 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...

Claudine 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595142118Author Denise BonhommeFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 703g

If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another-man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, master and servant-thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts and opening a field of relations. In...

Reputed to be a conservative group, the Nobel Prize committee astonished the world in 1985 by giving its prize to Claude Simon, one of the most adventurous and challenging of modern authors whose writing defies easy classification. This study shows...

According to Carol Rigolot, reading the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) is not unlike eavesdropping on a telephone conversation in which only one side is audible. His poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where...

Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives--L'Immoraliste, La Porte Etroite, and La Symphonie pastorale--through the lens of semiotics and narratology. O'Keefe argues that Gide is in many ways a...

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maissa Bey, Helene...

Jean-Jacques Poucel offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature). Poucel argues that...

In an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to...

This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery--all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality...

While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic perfection, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties: the canny excavation of its resources as the site, instrument, and product...

This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as...

This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent,...

Politiques de l'ecriture is a critical assessment of an important yet overlooked segment in the socio-cultural history of the interwar period. It examines in detail the function, range, and implications of ""sacred sociology"" as...

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the...

The Broken Angel is the first book-length examination of a mythopoetic configuration that pervades Valery's entire textual universe. The Angel is linked to almost every one of its themes and informs all of its modes, which, in turn, form and deform it...

Volume 214 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892145Author Gordon ShentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North...

Volume 176 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891766Author Nathaniel B. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

A close reading, with text and translation, of each of the thirteen prose poems which Mallarme published during his life and grouped together in 1897 as the ""Anecdotes ou Poemes"" of Divagations. The analysis-the first full...

Volume 196 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891964Author Edward Baron TurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Douglas Alden provides scholars of Proust a practical means of access to the Grasset Proofs, which include Du cote de chez Swann, A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and Le Cote de Guermantes. Alden guides the reader in approaching Proust's only work...

Volume 190 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891902Author Judith Morganroth SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

Volume 178 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891780Author Richard Howard StamelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University...

Volume 177 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891773Author Patricia Willett CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University...

Jacob's reputation has traditionally been that of a verbal acrobat. This book is an analysis of the major stylistic devices of his poems and prose poems: puns, parody, and imagery. The author shows how the poet uses devices to communicate with his reader...

The author, after analyzing textual and iconographic descriptions of the medieval Jewish Passover Seder, concludes that Chretien de Troyes's Grail banquet (found in his romance Perceval portrayed a Sephardic Seder. The author proves by documentary...

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was one of the most popular novelists of her day. Stewart examines Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1957) and the seven subsequent novels, paying particular attention to the technical aspects of her work to her handling of the letter form...

Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron's Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, stems from four interpolated stories which Scarron included and which, according to many critics, have no...

This study is an analysis of Rousseau's relationship to his reader in the major works drom Discours sur les sciences et les arts to Reveries du promeneur solitaire. In addition to specialists, the volume will be of interest to a broad audience directly...

Rebecca M. Valette examines the short stories of French author Arthur de Gobineau. Through detailed analysis, Valette underscores Gobineau's originality and his contribution to French literature. This study describes the various narrative techniques that...

This general chronology of Voltaire's letters by an eminent ""Voltairiste"" contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an index.Book InformationISBN 9780807890172Author Andre DelattreFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Volume 156 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891568Author Joseph R. DanosFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North...

An attempt to trace the development of Moliere criticism organized around three categories: biographical, academic (both historical and formalistic), and commentaries by ""theater professionals."Book InformationISBN 9780807891513Author...