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Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau by Fayçal Falaky
RRP: $140.93$122.93Apologies 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
$63.24Joseph 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: $179.38$155.61First 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... -
Critical Bibliography of French Literature v. 2; The Sixteenth Century by David C. Cabeen
$96.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815623083Author David C. CabeenFormat HardbackPage Count 882Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press -
Candide En Dannemarc, Ou l'Optimisme Des HonneTes Gens: Voltaire by Edouard Langille
RRP: $38.98$28.31Published 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... -
Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to the Tempest by Peter G Platt
RRP: $40.93$36.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463416Author Peter G PlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Natives against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France by Olivia C. Harrison
RRP: $195.00$165.98Examining 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... -
Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and gender in eighteenth-century French Literature by Tracy Rutler
$150.68Liminal periods in politics often serve as points in time when traditional methods and principles organizing society are disrupted. These periods of interregnum may not always result in complete social upheaval, but they do open the space to imagine... -
Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France by Kathrina Ann Laporta
RRP: $81.90$70.16Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the "war of words" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies,... -
Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity by Christina Parker-Flynn
RRP: $261.30$223.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978825079Author Christina Parker-FlynnFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
RRP: $85.78$74.96Reflecting Walter Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies,... -
The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France by Larry F. Norman
RRP: $97.50$93.31The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe,... -
Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom by Victor Brombert
RRP: $37.05$36.08Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his clear and perspicacious gaze on the works of one of its greatest authors Stendhal. Best remembered for his novels The Red and the Black... -
The Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in America by Francois Cusset
RRP: $33.13$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524108Author Francois CussetFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 245g -
Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction: Readings in French Realism by Maria C Scott
RRP: $40.93$36.23This book takes its point of departure in recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, including Theory of Mind. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stories... -
Introduction to Proust: His Life, His Circle and His Work by Derrick Leon
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book, first published in 1940, provides an introduction to the life and work of the French novelist, critic, and essayist Marcel Proust, who is considered by many to be one of the greatest authors of all time. This book will be of interest to... -
Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions: New Perspectives on Walter Pater by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: $263.25$228.70Reflecting Walter Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies,... -
An Atmospherics of the City: Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise by Ross Chambers
RRP: $68.25$58.81What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city? An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles... -
Adventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life by Jeffrey Mehlman
$5.89 - $36.64This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar and critic of matters French than a series of differently angled fragments, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called Jeffrey Mehlman's amour vache-his injured... -
Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference by Lynne Huffer
$21.74 - $68.68This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist... -
Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval French Literature by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
RRP: $148.20$127.55This book explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-twelfth century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks: What were the purposes of... -
Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature by Lawrence R. Schehr
RRP: $122.85$104.21A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"This fascinating book operates on the simple, fundamental premise that homosexuality inhabits a social place between public and private, and that, consequently, it serves as a sort of deep structure of... -
Fuzzy Fiction by Jean-Louis Hippolyte
RRP: $42.88$36.64Fuzzy Fiction examines the phenomenon of "fuzziness," both figurative and structural, in the contemporary French novel. Fuzziness, as originally conceived by Bertrand Russell a century ago, eventually led to the fuzzy set theory of mathematics,... -
The Sentimental Education of the Novel by Margaret Cohen
RRP: $78.00$60.33The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that French realism, especially as developed by Balzac and... -
LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine by Aram Vartanian
RRP: $68.25$53.06As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr... -
Rethinking the French Classroom: New Approaches to Teaching Contemporary French and Francophone Women by E. Nicole Meyer
RRP: $74.08$65.09This 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... -
Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text by A. C. Spearing
RRP: $54.58$46.14In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as... -
Remember, Repeat, Inhabit: A Study of Antonin Artaud, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nikhil Chopra by Ronojoy Sircar
$179.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388912976Author Ronojoy SircarFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury IndiaWeight(grams) 336g -
Early French Tristan Poems: II by Norris J. Lacy
RRP: $165.75$159.32These first volumes of the series Arthurian Archives present the Old French verse texts devoted to Tristan and Iseut. Authoritative critical editions are complemented by parallel translations, with introduction, variants and rejected readings, and... -
Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Jonathan Strauss
$10.22 - $24.94The 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... -
Essays in Aesthetics by Gerard Genette
$46.88Over the course of the past forty years, Gerard Genette's work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one of France's most influential theorists. The eighteen... -
Mirbeau'S Fictions by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: $38.98$28.31With the aim of encouraging a critical rereading of Mirbeau's most durable works, this study examines his problematic status as a producer of fictions, his use of humour and cruelty, and his treatment of social class and biological diversity, making... -
Yale French Studies, Number 130: Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France by Joseph Harris
RRP: $73.13$61.58The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France Although the Catholic Church condemned the power of plays to stir up... -
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herv Guibert by Michael Lucey
RRP: $156.00$149.39Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers... -
My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community by David Caron
RRP: $52.63$44.56"It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social... -
Mallarmeand the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Ranciere by Robert Boncardo
RRP: $204.75$182.89Recounts the radical readings of Mallarme's seminal poems by some of France's most important 20th century thinkersWhy is Stephane Mallarme, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, so important to French philosophers? With in-depth studies of... -
Death Now: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1944 by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $68.25$58.81The book offers both literary journalism from one of the twentieth century's major writers, as well as a snapshot of the complex, conflicting currents of literary and intellectual activity during the last months of German occupation and Vichy government... -
Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath by Peter Starr
$133.79Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination, September 11th-watershed moments such as these can be rich... -
Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law by Kathryn Gravdal
RRP: $50.68$42.98In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through which... -
Conversations with Maryse Conde by Francoise Pfaff
RRP: $29.23$27.18This book is an exploration of the life and art of Maryse Conde, who first won international acclaim for Segu, a novel about West African experience and the slave trade. Born in Guadeloupe in 1937, Conde lived in Guinea after it won its independence from...