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Essays in Later Medieval French Literature: The Legacy of Jane H. M. Taylor by Rebecca Dixon 9780719081927
RRP: £90.00£63.91Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Jane Taylor has shown a commitment to the rehabilitation of the more neglected aspects of later medieval French literature. This volume brings together original contributions from scholars who have... -
French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century: The Return to the Story by Simon Kemp 9780708322734
RRP: £12.99£11.01Explores the state of French fiction through an examination of the work of five major French writers, Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano. This book deals with some of the writers on British and American... -
L'ecriture Du Feminin Chez Zola Et Dans La Fiction Naturaliste Writing the Feminine in Zola and Naturalist Fiction by Anna Gural-Migdal 9783039104550
RRP: £88.10£76.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039104550Author Anna Gural-MigdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 505Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 750g -
Zola: The History of Capitalism by William Gallois 9783906758602
RRP: £54.50£47.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906758602Author William GalloisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 410g -
Les Espaces du Livre / Spaces of the Book: Supports et acteurs de la creation texte/image (XXe-XXIe siecles) / Materials and Agents of the Text/Image Creation (20th-21th Centuries) by Isabelle Chol 9783034319034
RRP: £44.00£38.64L'etonnante diversite des possibilites esthetiques offertes par le livre comme support materiel de la fin du XIXe siecle aux experimentations les plus contemporaines, est au coeur de la reflexion proposee dans ce livre. La page, le feuillet et le livre,... -
In Limine Romaniae: Chanson de geste et epopee europeenne by Carlos Alvar 9783034310659
RRP: £62.90£55.18Cet ouvrage reunit les travaux des plus grands specialistes en poesie epique romane du Moyen Age, rassembles en juillet 2009 a Geneve pour le XVIIIe congres international de la Societe Rencesvals. Ils ont consacre leurs efforts a analyser et a commenter... -
Comics in French: The European Bande DessinA (c)e in Context by Laurence Grove 9781845455880
RRP: £107.00£89.61Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better,A" in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ninth artA" and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting, and cinema. The bande... -
The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing: Literary Sites of Memory by Jonathan Lewis 9781786833044
RRP: £50.00£40.71This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as `sites of memory' with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of... -
Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture: Countering Crises by Helena Chadderton 9781786831187
RRP: £60.00£48.64In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and... -
Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts by Griselda Pollock 9781785339707
RRP: £99.00£79.83Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His ideas on concentrationary art proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School,... -
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing by Kate Averis 9781783169283
RRP: £60.00£48.64Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of... -
Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature by Amaleena Damle 9781783162062
RRP: £19.99£15.23Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the... -
Minuit by Steve Spalding 9781628973990
RRP: £30.00£19.88"How does a novel accrue value? How do certain new and unknown authors and their works make their way from obscurity into the pantheon of the greats, or—at least—the firmament of the stars?" Minuit examines the role played by French publishing house... -
Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women by E. Nicole Meyer 9781138369931
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom. Focusing on how women writing in French are changing the face of French Studies, opening the canon to not only new approaches to gender... -
Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics: A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction by Jonathan F. Krell 9781837644094
RRP: £29.99£27.38In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to humans’ war on nature: Our world view must turn from... -
Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: Representations of Work in Post-Fordist France by Jeremy F. Lane 9781837644124
RRP: £29.99£28.56Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound... -
The Rock of Arles by Richard Klein 9781478020981
£87.01Founded 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... -
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature by Morgane Cadieu 9780226827124
RRP: £80.00£76.61An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society... -
Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation by Randolph Splitter 9781032624143
RRP: £81.99£71.30Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s novel A la recherche du temps perdu from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, showing that Marcel, the central character, like the novel itself,... -
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation by Ioanna Chatzidimitriou 9780367549152
RRP: £39.99£35.06Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and... -
Prelude to the Enlightenment: French Literature 1690-1740 by Geoffroy Atkinson 9781032425986
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1971, Prelude to the Enlightenment is a study of the attitudes of French writers during the transition from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment. Professors Atkinson and Keller investigate the increasing vogue for emotionalism,... -
Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France by Kathryn A. Kleppinger 9781800855830
£32.43Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the... -
Landmarks in French Literature by Lytton Strachey 9781513278490
RRP: £5.99£4.25With authors such as Voltaire, Honore De Balzac, Victor Hugo, and so many more, French literature can be as intimidating as it is spectacular. Hoping to spread admiration and knowledge about the French literary canon, H.A.L Fisher, a former president of... -
Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Jonathan Strauss 9780823233793
£81.48The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from urban space, and corpses started to be viewed as... -
Comics in French: The European Bande DessinA (c)e in Context by Laurence Grove 9780857459022
RRP: £27.95£23.39Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults 'who should know better', in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the 'Ninth Art' and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinee... -
The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms by Marianne E. Kalinke 9781783167876
RRP: £34.99£28.81The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century, which has been preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, and which in early... -
The Artificial Paradises in French Literature by Emanuel J. Mickel
RRP: £30.00£29.28This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the use and effect of opium and hashish. Later chapters analyze the influence on the works of various writers of... -
Baudelaire, Sartre and Camus: Lectures and Commentaries by Garnet Rees
RRP: £9.99£7.58This book presents a brief introduction to each writer, centring on a particular work ("Les Fleurs du mal, Les Mains sales, La peste") and imediately followed by a commentary on an extract (the Baudelaire poem chose is '"Le Cygne"'). Professor Rees ends... -
In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France by Peggy McCracken
RRP: £39.00£37.63In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet whether as friends or foes issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger... -
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabes
£73.81A Stanford University Press classic.About the AuthorThe late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing, and he... -
Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France by Eliza Jane Smith
RRP: £94.00£82.26Literary 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... -
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Negotiating Shifting Forms by Emily E. Thompson
£116.46.Book InformationISBN 9781644532379Author Emily E. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 152g -
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution by James Swenson
£108.28In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise,... -
Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities by Mona El Khoury
RRP: £108.00£94.71At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end of the War of Independence exiled most of them from... -
Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423143Author Saul FriedlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969-1995 by Felisa Vergara Reynolds
£46.79In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. In The Author as Cannibal, Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts... -
Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau by Fayçal Falaky
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438449890Author Fayçal FalakyFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Joseph Zobel: Negritude and the Novel by Louise Hardwick
RRP: £30.25£17.16Joseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognised for his novel La Rue Cases-Negres (1950). Yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Negres... -
The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir by Elizabeth Fallaize
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1988, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Century French writer, Simone de Beauvoir. Her novels are popular with both the students and general readers of literature and... -
Candide En Dannemarc, Ou l'Optimisme Des HonneTes Gens: Voltaire by Edouard Langille
RRP: £19.99£14.52Published in Rouen in 1767 and reprinted two years later, Voltaire's Candide en Dannemarc, ou l'optimisme des honnetes gens wraps up the adventures of Candide. Turning his back on both Voltairean satire and scepticism, the novelist proposes a moralistic...