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Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Comfort 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...

This 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,...

.Book InformationISBN 9781644532362Author Emily E. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies 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

Sciascia 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...

What 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...

Apologies 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

The 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...

Idolatry 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...

In 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...

The 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...

The 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...

An 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 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...

Apologies 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

Indiana, 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...

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...

He might be best known for sex and violence, but Lode Lauwaert shows that the Marquis du Sade sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture: abstract art, Tom and Jerry, gnosticism, Kant's moral philosophy, romanticism,...

Demonstrates 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...

Postcolonial 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...

Apologies 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 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 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,...

Rousseau'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 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, 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...

Apologies 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

The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Herge) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with...

Apologies 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...

Autobiography 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...

Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. Central to...

This is the first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Segur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Segur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. Generations of children have grown up...

Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond explores the Beur/banlieue literary and cultural field from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present. It examines a set of postcolonial Bildungsroman novels by Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Leila Sebbar,...

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond...

A study in obsession, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel...

Over 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...

Explores 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...