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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889053Author Genevieve BoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Political firebrand, tireless reformer, champion of the avant-garde, Octave Mirbeau embraced his role as disturber of the peace. Inspired by Kropotkin and Dostoyevsky, Mirbeau became the social conscience of the era, speaking in a clear voice to impugn...

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The Personal and the Political presents three fables written by social commentator and political thinker Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu: The Temple of Cnidus (on eros and justice), Lysimachus (on philosophy and imperial...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410202116Author Jules VerneFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

This monograph represents the first comprehensive study of the multifaceted representations of the complex phenomenon of globalization in the diverse repertoire of the 2008 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This interdisciplinary investigation explores the...

Despite the loss of the French Empire, France and its former colonies are still bound by a common historical past. With the new global promotion of la Francophonie, the relation between the various constituencies of the French-speaking regions of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498587310Author Claire MouflardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship foregrounds the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literature in France. It uses postcolonial theory, sociology, and political...

Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen sheds new light on the memory community of the pieds-noir from the Algerian War (1954-1962) as it continues to resonate in France, where...

This book applies the growing theoretical field of hauntology to a body of literature which has previously been examined through the lenses of Orientalism and exoticism. Through a chronological study and close readings of the writings of Theophile...

Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the "long eighteenth century" by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French...

In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has...

Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000 examines a century-long struggle between cultural spokesmen on the extreme right and left to dominate and define the concept of "the intellectual." This struggle began...

The rise of the novel paradigm-and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre-continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel...

In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has...

Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature - especially the literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880795Author Howard MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589636590Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512804331Author Harold MarchFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

The first in-depth interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste, Image and Imagination: Picturing the Old French Epic examines the fascinating relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the...

For a century now, scholars have searched for the "source" of Marcel Proust's startlingly innovative novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or Paul Sollier. Others have referenced the novels of...

Time is not normally visible. While we often sense the events in time, we overlook what Marcel Proust calls "time in a pure state." That's why, in The Force of Time, Keith W. Faulkner shows how Gilles Deleuze extracts his "ontology of the...

Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of...

Fourteen of the most important French literati discussed from both the personal and artistic viewpoints. The list includes: Gide, Giradoux, Mauriac, MacOrlan, Larbaud, Morand, Colette, the surrealists, Concteau, Green, de Montherland, Drieu la Rochelle,...

In this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary "nomads." The concept of nomadism, based on the experience of traditionally mobile peoples lacking any...

We live in a neoliberal regime that works to dismantle social institutions and eradicate forms of collective gathering. Over and against this state of affairs, Collectivity in Struggle revisits a crucial moment in recent history when the formation of...

This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in India. The study is the first in either English or...

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 trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498086455Author Edward DowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497970342Author Arthur SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497997127Author Anatole FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 336g

During the late 12th Century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers. Foremost among these poets was the great Chretien de Troyes, credited with incorporating into the Arthurian tradition the quest for...

Legends, tales, and mysteries featuring saints captivated the French at the end of the nineteenth century. As Jean Lorrain pointed out in an 1891 article for the popular weekly Le Courrier Francais, the seemingly simple language of the saints' lives,...

Founded 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812231496Author Margaret E. GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440437915Author Geoffrey BenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In this book, Author Katharine N. Harrington examines contemporary writers from the French-speaking world who can be classified as literary "nomads." The concept of nomadism, based on the experience of traditionally mobile peoples lacking any...