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Spitzer, refuting ideas set forth by Grace Frank, redefines l'amour lointain as the result of the ""paradox amoureux,"" which is the base of all troubadour poetry. This is a forty-four page article with extensive notes.Book...

Examines the work of French women writers, Marie de France, Simone de Beauvoir and Helene Cixous, and three who are much less well-known, Madeline and Catherine des Roches and Marie de Gournay. This study shows how they have dealt with the challenge of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137654Author Mel GussowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

As stubborn, as surprising, as artful as life in its refusal to conform to a particular literary genre, Marcel Benabou's book is at once a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the prerogatives and imperatives of writing one's story. At...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537401Author Professor of French Studies David BellosFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and...

This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their writing argues for or against the different positions...

The formulation ‘egalitarian strangeness’ is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Rancière. Perhaps best known for his...

States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of  pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic...

Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French...

Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical...

A token of the world's instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems: Must the artist struggle against chance in pursuit of a flawless work? Or does chance have a place in the...

Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France applies a sociolinguistic approach to the representation of slang in French literature and dictionaries to reveal the ways in which upper-class writers, lexicographers, literary critics, and...

Basil Guy is Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley. A decorated World War II veteran, he is the author of several books and editions, including an outstanding translation of Charles-Joseph de Ligne «Coup d'oeil...

Michaël Ferrier is a prize-winning novelist, essayist and academic whose cosmopolitan life – he grew up in Chad and France, has Mauritian roots and lives in Japan – has inspired him to write some fascinating novels that cross generic and geographical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825367145Author Dorothea HeitschFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 259g

Free Will in Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire and Sartre takes the reader on a journey through the corridors of time to explore the evolution of thought regarding free will. The arguments and works presented in this volume raise critical...

This book reconsiders the body in literature and makes a case for visual representation as a physical and gesticulative domain for rethinking the constructions of gender, nationalism and sexuality. Examining literary production from the eleventh century...

The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the ages. This collection of articles, selected from the proceedings of...

Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he made his literary debut with the Salon de 1845. Its failure to find a receptive audience led him to write the groundbreaking Salon de 1846 with its pivotal chapter on colour, in which...

Originating in the conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2009, this collection of essays includes a range of innovative papers from across the diverse field of French and Francophone studies. From medieval texts to the dramatization of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503523613Author Brigitte CazellesFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406068709Author Rotraud Von KulessaFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406065074Author Jean-Michel WittmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406063438Author Francois RougetFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978825062Author Christina Parker-FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g

The city intrigues and fascinates in every era. In this book, the author explores images of urban life and the city as depicted in 18th-century French writings, with particular reference to Paris, Geneva and the utopian ideal. The 18th-century French...

The first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785271816Author Gillian JeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785274091Author Rosemary A. Peters-HillFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783085125Author Gillian JeinFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219919Author Kasongo Mulenda KapangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213162Author Pascal BrucknerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793627933Author F Elizabeth DahabFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354432Author Charles ForsdickFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

As one of the most prominent voices from and about the French Caribbean, Gisele Pineau has garnered significant scholarly attention; however, this interest has culminated in precious few volumes devoted entirely to the author and her work. In response to...

French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century brings together current scholarship on a diverse range of topics-from French postcards and Third Republic menus to Haitian literary magazines and representation of race in vaudeville theater-in order...

Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers...

It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their...

Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present  For the pasty fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in...

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...