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Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Kevin McLaughlin
£54.40Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in... -
La Mothe Le Vayer: Lettre Sur La Comedie De L'Imposteur by Robert McBride
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Lettre sur la comedie de l'Imposteur is the only work of any length which does full justice to comedy in the 17th century as a serious dramatic form. It is an important document in its own right and because it is inseparable from the historical... -
Marie de France: A Critical Companion by Sharon Kinoshita
RRP: £80.00£73.28Marie de France is the author of some of the most influential and important works to survive from the middle ages; arguably best-known for her Lais, she also translated Aesop's Fables (the Ysope), and wrote the Espurgatoire seint Patriz (St Patrick's... -
Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo by Anna Kemp
£105.61Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' -... -
Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction by Ari J. Blatt
£39.18The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural... -
The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia by Joanna Stalnaker
£42.57In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural... -
Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the College De France Lectures by Jurgen Pieters
£24.44In January 1977 Roland Barthes became professor of literary semiology at the College de France, where he taught for three years until his death in March 1980. His lectures from those years, published more than two decades after his death, represent the... -
Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French by Christopher L. Miller
RRP: £27.00£26.47"Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world... -
Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance Franc - From Manuscript to Printed Book by Jane H. M. Taylor
RRP: £95.00£84.75Arthurian romance in Renaissance France has long been treated by modern critics as marginal - although manuscripts and printed volumes, adaptations and rewritings, show just how much writers, and especially publishers, saw its potential attractions for... -
The Conte du Graal Cycle - Chretien de Troyes`s Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance by Thomas Hinton
RRP: £95.00£91.08Chretien de Troyes's late twelfth-century Conte du Graal has inspired writers and scholars from the moment of its composition to the present day. The challenge represented by its unfinished state was quickly taken up, and over the next fifty years the... -
Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: citizenship, gender and ethnicity by Anne Grydehoj
RRP: £65.00£52.61This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and French crime fictions covering a fifty-year period from 1965 to the present, during which both Scandinavian and French societies have undergone significant transformations. Twelve literary case... -
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales by Bronwyn Reddan
£52.63Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that... -
Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light by Laila Amine
RRP: £22.95£19.62In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a... -
The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language by Katie Chenoweth
£62.00Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that... -
Mother Homer is Dead... by Helene Cixous
£86.45Mother Homer is Dead was written in the immediate aftermath of the death of the writer's mother in the 103rd year of her life. ve Cixous, n e Klein, has figured centrally in her daughter's writing since the publication of Osnabr ck (1999). Since then,... -
The Price of Literature: The French Novel's Theoretical Turn by Patrick M. Bray
£46.63The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated... -
The Impersonal Sublime: Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautreamont by Suzanne Guerlac
£62.00The question of the sublime, which links the idea of aesthetic force with rhetorical impact and moral law, has been an important topic in discussion of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and the shift between them. This book argues that the sublime... -
Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski by Jane Gallop
£39.18Four writers-the first, an eighteenth-century Frenchman whose works still retain their power to shock, scandalize, and instruct; the others, three twentieth-century Frenchmen, heirs and explicators of their earlier compatriot-form the central cast of... -
Frameworks for Mallarme: The Photo and the Graphic of an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic by Gayle Zachmann
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791475935Author Gayle ZachmannFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis by Dr. Simon Morgan Wortham
£81.97This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double... -
Malherbe, TheOphile De Viau and Saint-Amant: A Selection by Richard G. Maber
RRP: £19.99£11.78This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make... -
French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll
£39.12This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important... -
Unsettling Montaigne - Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings by Elizabeth Guild
RRP: £95.00£91.08Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance. Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais' innovative open-mindedness is at odds with... -
Medievalist Enlightenment - From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Alicia C. Montoya
RRP: £80.00£76.61Literary medievalism played a vital role in the construction of the French Enlightenment. Starting with the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, it influenced movements leading to the Romantic rediscovery of the Middle Ages, and helped to shape new... -
Partonopeus de Blois - Romance in the Making by Penny Eley
RRP: £80.00£77.01Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an opera (Massanet's Esclarmonde). However,... -
Global Revolutionary Aesthetics and Politics after Paris '68 by Martin Munro
RRP: £85.00£74.51The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May '68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volume-based on papers presented the conference Does "la lutte... -
Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism by Maria Scott
RRP: £95.00£86.45This book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'na ve' readers. Scott draws on literary theory and close... -
Mallarme and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Ranciere by Robert Boncardo
£20.11With in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how StephaneMallarme became so politically significant for left-wing... -
Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism by Madeleine Dobie
£22.49Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France's colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of... -
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700 by Michele Longino
RRP: £45.99£40.13Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste... -
Rendering French Realism by Lawrence R. Schehr
£57.77Realist novels are usually seen as verisimilar representations of the world, and even when that verisimilitude is critically examined (as it has been by Marxist and feminist critics), the criticism has referred to extra-literary matters, such as... -
Illuminating the Roman d`Alexandre: Oxford, Bodl - The Manuscript as Monument by Mark Cruse
£89.56Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated... -
Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness by Michaela Hulstyn 9781487543761
£52.93Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive... -
Autumn Leaves by Andre Gide 9780806530468 [USED COPY]
£17.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Translation and the Arts in Modern France by Sonya Stephens 9780253026149 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.99£16.55Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War (1954-62) by Jo McCormack 9780739145623 [USED COPY]
RRP: £45.00£21.52Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Verginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy: An Edition and Translation of Episodes from Pierre Bersuire’s Tite-Live and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la rose Noah D Guynn 9781843847359
RRP: £65.00£55.25The tragic stories of Lucretia and Verginia, taken from the fourteenth-century French version of Livy's History of Rome, presented with facing page English translation. Livy was famous in the Middle Ages for what Dante called his "unerring" history of... -
Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais: Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch Luke O'Sullivan 9781399522960
£81.97Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical... -
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn Madeleine Chalmers 9781399539814
RRP: £90.00£76.50Uncovers the nonhuman turn's unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France. -
Proust's Snobs, Inverts, and Jews: Performing and Subverting Identity in La Recherche Dr. or Prof. Adeline Soldin 9798765122112
RRP: £90.00£76.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765122112Author Dr. or Prof. Adeline SoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA