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The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889053Author Genevieve BoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

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The Personal and the Political presents three fables written by social commentator and political thinker Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu: The Temple of Cnidus (on eros and justice), Lysimachus (on philosophy and imperial...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410202116Author Jules VerneFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

This monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This interdisciplinary investigation explores the...

Despite the loss of the French Empire, France and its former colonies are still bound by a common historical past. With the new global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the various constituencies of the French-speaking regions of the...

This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological study and close readings of the writings of Theophile...

Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000 examines a century-long struggle between cultural spokesmen on the extreme right and left to dominate and define the concept of "the intellectual." This struggle began...

The rise of the novel paradigm-and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre-continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel...

In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has...

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589636590Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512804331Author Harold MarchFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

For a century now, scholars have searched for the "source" of Marcel Proust's startlingly innovative novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or Paul Sollier. Others have referenced the novels of...

Time is not normally visible. While we often sense the events in time, we overlook what Marcel Proust calls "time in a pure state." That's why, in The Force of Time, Keith W. Faulkner shows how Gilles Deleuze extracts his "ontology of the...

Fourteen of the most important French literati discussed from both the personal and artistic viewpoints. The list includes: Gide, Giradoux, Mauriac, MacOrlan, Larbaud, Morand, Colette, the surrealists, Concteau, Green, de Montherland, Drieu la Rochelle,...

Drawing links between the Francophone literatures of Canada, the French Caribbean, and North Africa, Spaces of Creation demonstrates that problematic issues of dynamic, postcolonial societies can and do fuel creative acts on the part of women. The trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498086455Author Edward DowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497970342Author Arthur SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497997127Author Anatole FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 336g

During the late 12th Century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers. Foremost among these poets was the great Chretien de Troyes, credited with incorporating into the Arthurian tradition the quest for...

Legends, tales, and mysteries featuring saints captivated the French at the end of the nineteenth century. As Jean Lorrain pointed out in an 1891 article for the popular weekly Le Courrier Francais, the seemingly simple language of the saints' lives,...

Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists. In The Rock of Arles Richard Klein relays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812231496Author Margaret E. GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market...

In this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary "nomads." The concept of nomadism, based on the experience of traditionally mobile peoples lacking any...

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...

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...

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...