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Queens And Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet by Pascale Gaitet 9780874138269
RRP: £96.00£88.72Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of Genet that focus on the two areas that Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's empasis on a range of binary oppositions fails to do justice to... -
Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France by Cathy Yandell 9780874137040
RRP: £108.00£100.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874137040Author Cathy YandellFormat HardbackPage Count 281Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Tiaudelet: Theodolus in Medieval France by Tony Hunt 9782503580951
RRP: £107.00£105.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503580951Author Tony HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 794g -
Sur Les Chemins de l'Amitie: Beitrage Zur Franzosischen Literaturgeschiche. Freundesgabe Fur Dietmar Rieger by Anna Isabell Worsdorfer 9783447108812
£75.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447108812Author Anna Isabell WorsdorferFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 5940g -
Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism by Nathaniel Wing 9780874138450
RRP: £100.00£92.44Between Genders studies representations of gender in a group of early and mid-nineteenth-century French texts. The five texts examined are diverse in both literary form and theme: two novels, Honore de Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Theophile Gantier's... -
Isabelle De Charriere (Belle De Zuylen). Early Writings. New Material from Dutch Archives by K. van Strien 9789042916463
RRP: £57.00£55.20This book is the result of patient research in eighteenth-century family archives. Particularly those of Belle de Zuylen's contemporaries likely to have met her. Just over twenty years after the publication of her "Oeuvres completes" and the subsequent... -
Samuel Beckett: Undoing Time by Jennifer Birkett 9780716532903
RRP: £29.95£28.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716532903Author Jennifer BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Roman Mystique, Mystiques Romanesques by Carole Auroy 9782406066576
RRP: £68.00£63.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406066576Author Carole AuroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 475Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 998g -
Ainsi Passe Le Texte: Melanges En Hommage a Madeleine Jeay by Veronique Duche 9782406073628
RRP: £50.00£46.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406073628Author Veronique DucheFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 576g -
L'Accident de Menilmontant by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 9782812430749
RRP: £54.00£47.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782812430749Author Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 748g -
Marc Antoine de Muret: Jules Cesar by Marc-Antoine Muret 9782251801261
RRP: £92.00£91.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251801261Author Marc-Antoine MuretFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 766g -
Representations of Marginalized Populations in French WWI Literature: Muted Voices by Kathy Comfort 9781666916362
RRP: £73.00£64.18Comfort examines the works of five Francophone authors who wrote about World War I: Maxence Van der Meersch's Invasion 14, Colette's war reporting, Bakary Diallo's Force-Bonte, Blaise Cendrars's La Main coupee, and Roland Dorgeles's Le Reveil des morts... -
Voltaire in Holland, 1736-1745 by Kees Van Strien 9789042923539
£76.26This book portrays Voltaire as he was perceived by readers of gazettes and literary journals published in Holland. Among them the literary critic Prosper Marchand, who was allergic to the many factual errors in Voltaire's works, and Henri Du Sauzet,... -
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Negotiating Shifting Forms by Emily E. Thompson 9781644532362
£41.72.Book InformationISBN 9781644532362Author Emily E. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 152g -
Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France by Kathrina Ann Laporta 9781644532096
£116.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644532096Author Kathrina Ann LaportaFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
Leonardo Sciascia's French Authors by Ian Morrison 9783039119110
RRP: £35.60£29.29Sciascia frequently alludes to French authors, and is often taken to have a close relationship with French literature in general. However, academic critics have never given this important relationship comprehensive and detailed examination. This book... -
Extreme-occident: French Intellectuals and America by Jean-Philippe Mathy 9780226510644
RRP: £32.00£31.11What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it "Extreme-Occident," the Far Western... -
Etymologies and Genealogies: Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages by R. Howard Bloch 9780226059822
RRP: £30.00£29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226059822Author R. Howard BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Cahiers Parisiens: Parisian Notebooks by Philippe Desan 9782952596237
RRP: £24.00£23.43The Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks publish selected papers in English and French drawn from international conferences held at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. This fourth volume contains papers presented during the 2006-7 academic year... -
The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-Century French Literature by Ellen McClure 9781843845508
RRP: £80.00£67.74Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the... -
Beyond Return: Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction by Lucas Hollister 9781786942180
RRP: £109.50£34.87In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), 'contemporary' French literature is often said to embrace more traditional or readable novelistic forms. This rejection of the... -
Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel by Joshua Armstrong 9781786942012
RRP: £109.50£61.18The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local... -
France in Flux: Space, Territory and Contemporary Culture by Ari J. Blatt 9781786941787
£111.11The look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerous writers, filmmakers and photographers have been drawn to articulate France's contrasting spatial qualities, from... -
Traces of War: Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing by Colin Davis 9781786940421
£36.06An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is... -
Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism: 1988-2015 by Patrick Crowley 9781786940216
£111.11Algeria: Nation, Culture and Transnationalism 1988-2015 offers new insights into contemporary Algeria. Drawing on a range of different approaches to the idea of Algeria and to its contemporary realities, the chapters in this volume serve to open up any... -
The Negritude Moment: Explorations in Francophone African and Caribbean Literature and Thought by F. Abiola Irele 9781592217984
RRP: £29.95£19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217984Author F. Abiola IreleFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 381g -
Approaches to Teaching Sand's Indiana by David A. Powell 9781603292092
£102.06Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French countryside estate, far from her native Ile Bourbon (now Reunion). Written in 1832, the novel appeared during a period of French history... -
Spaces of Creation: Transculturality and Feminine Expression in Francophone Literature by Allison Connolly 9781498539364
RRP: £79.00£44.43Drawing 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... -
Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy by Lode Lauwaert 9781474430692
£95.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474430692Author Lode LauwaertFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Maurice Blanchot: Art and Technology by Holly Langstaff 9781399515474
RRP: £85.00£69.28Demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking Demonstrates a considerable shift in Blanchot's thinking from 1940s to 1980s Highlights the significance of... -
Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies by Raphael Dalleo 9781781382967
£111.51Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has... -
High Anxiety: Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France by Prof. Kathleen P. Long 9780943549927
RRP: £31.95£29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943549927Author Prof. Kathleen P. LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bristol Publishing Enterprises Inc.,U.S.Publisher Bristol Publishing... -
The Catalan Rule of the Templars - A Critical Edition and English Translation from Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragon, `Cartas Reales`, M by J.M. Upton-Ward 9780851159102
RRP: £65.00£61.81The Knights Templar, part monastic order, part military force, lived by a firm code, or rule, which exists in differing versions. This Spanish version is a follow-up to J.M. Upton-Ward's highly successful edition of the French Rule. The introduction to... -
In the Wake of Medea: Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction by Juliette Cherbuliez 9780823287826
RRP: £99.00£55.41In the Wake of Medea examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas. French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence. This book explores the rhetorical, literary,... -
Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780823282340
£81.48Rousseau's opposition to the theater is well known: Far from purging the passions, it serves only to exacerbate them, and to render them hypocritical. But is it possible that Rousseau's texts reveal a different conception of theatrical imitation, a more... -
War after Death: On Violence and Its Limits by Steven Miller 9780823256778
£66.15War after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing and death. Recent history demonstrates that body counts are more... -
The French Writers' War, 1940-1953 by Gisele Sapiro 9780822351917
£40.08The French Writers' War, 1940-1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws in the early 1950s. To understand how the Occupation... -
Edmond Jabes the Poetry of the Nomad by William Kluback 9780820438337
RRP: £30.40£27.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820438337Author William KlubackFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 220g -
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882 by Juliette Drouet 9780791465714
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791465714Author Juliette DrouetFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography by Natalie Edwards 9780803236318
£19.19Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues...