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Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry by Mitchell Greenberg 9780521123426
RRP: $60.43$46.41Professor Greenberg's lucid study examines the themes of authority, power and sexuality in Corneille's major plays, drawing on the work of Foucault, and Freudian and feminist critics. He begins by considering the question of myth and of a... -
The Art of Recognition in Wolfram's 'Parzival' by Dennis Howard Green 9780521245005
RRP: $204.75$151.11Although much work has recently been done on the relationship between poet, narrator and audience in medieval literature, no sustained attempt has yet been made to inquire into the ways in which the listener's responses are rhetorically controlled and... -
French Pulpit Oratory, 1598-1650: A Study of Themes and Styles, with a Descriptive Catalogue of Printed Texts by Peter C. Bayley 9780521168359
RRP: $60.43$46.41This 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863, and the first to treat both Catholic and Protestant preaching. The first part opens with a general discussion on the sermon as a literary form, followed by a... -
The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment by Walter E. Rex 9780521159005
RRP: $60.43$46.41The essays in this 1987 volume are concerned with ideas of contrarity and other kinds of polar opposition in French literature of the eighteenth century. Originally these ideas were merely part of an impulse to undermine the establishment, but as the... -
Chretien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances by L.T. Topsfield 9780521155298
RRP: $72.13$55.34Originally published in 1981, this book provides an interpretation of the five Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes. It attempts to show the ways in which this most enigmatic and influential of medieval romance-writers reveals his ideas about man,... -
Queneau's Fiction: An Introductory Study by Christopher Shorley 9780521155267
RRP: $60.43$46.41Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was an important and influential contemporary of Camus and Sartre and figures among the most significant of modern French writers, though his work is still not widely known in the English-speaking world. He was a poet,... -
Dante's Comedy: Introductory Readings of Selected Cantos by Uberto Limentani 9780521155069
RRP: $60.43$46.41The ten readings in this 1985 volume were originally delivered as Lecturae Dantis at the University of Cambridge. Their purpose is twofold: to offer a well-informed commentary on individual Cantos of The Divine Comedy, and to prove to those who wish to... -
Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels by Alan Bance 9780521155038
RRP: $60.43$37.13This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins... -
The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme by Nathaniel Wing 9780521114158
RRP: $60.43$42.69This book examines the problematic area of narrative structure under conditions of severe stress. Each of the four authors is shown to be concerned with the tension between narrative coherence as a desirable goal and an unfortunate check placed on the... -
Baudelaire in 1859: A Study in the Sources of Poetic Creativity by Richard D. E. Burton 9780521114141
RRP: $60.43$46.41This book is an intensive study of what was by far the most productive year in Baudelaire's literary career. It combines biographical investigation with detailed textual analysis in order to locate the sources of the extraordinary 'explosion'... -
Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France by Michael Moriarty 9780521113366
RRP: $60.43$38.98This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Mere, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing... -
Poetry and Fable: Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century France by Ann Moss 9780521112147
RRP: $60.43$42.69This book is a major study of the development of French poetry in the Renaissance, which examines changes in style and vision by looking both at how poetry was read in this period and how it was written. Dr Moss examines vernacular versions of fables... -
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Readership and Authority in the First Roman de la Rose by David F. Hult 9780521111003
RRP: $60.43$46.41The thirteenth-century poem Roman de la Rose is one of the most significant literary contributions of the Middle Ages. The poem is a composite work by two separate authors; the first part, By Guillaume de Lorris, has always been viewed as an unfinished... -
Nikolay Novikov: Enlightener of Russia by W. Gareth Jones 9780521111447
RRP: $60.43$44.56Nikolay Novikov (1744-1818) was a key figure in Russian cultural life under Catherine the Great. He was in turn a successful journalist, historiographer, educator, publisher, leading freemason and philanthropist and he left his distinctive mark on each... -
The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975) by Gareth Thomas 9780521062039
RRP: $60.43$46.41This is a major English study of the novels of the Spanish Civil War. The book is based on an analysis of some eighty Spanish novels, written in Spain and abroad (in exile) during the Franco period (1936-1975), in which the Civil War is the major theme... -
Two French Moralists: La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere by Odette De Mourgues 9780521142441
RRP: $60.43$35.28Among seventeenth-century classical French writers La Rochefoucauld owes his renown to his maxims and La Bruyere to his stylised portraits, or caracteres. This book starts from the basic assumption that both writers were 'moralists', and as such were... -
Literary Journals in Imperial Russia by Deborah A. Martinsen 9780521135221
RRP: $60.43$46.41Given the restrictions on political action and even political discussion in Russia, Russian literary journals have served as the principal means by which Russia discovered, defined and shaped itself. Every issue of importance for literate Russians -... -
English-SerboCroatian Dictionary by Morton Benson 9780521099219
RRP: $120.88$104.87The term 'SerboCroatian' denotes a South Slavic language with several varieties. These varieties are spoken in areas that compromised the former Yugoslavia. People living in Serbia and Montenegro now usually call their language 'Serbian'. People living... -
Proust's Additions: The Making of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Alison Winton 9780521083157
RRP: $60.43$46.41It has previously not been feasible to study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. In 1913, the novel was to be 1500 pages; by 1922, when Proust died, it was 3000. How did it grow to such proportions? Which... -
Proust's Additions: The Making of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' by Alison Winton 9780521083102
RRP: $81.88$71.35It has previously not been feasible to study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. In 1913, the novel was to be 1500 pages; by 1922, when Proust died, it was 3000. How did it grow to such proportions? Which... -
Poetry in a Divided World: The Clark Lectures 1985 by Henry Gifford 9780521069342
RRP: $60.43$46.41This book (comprising four lectures presented at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1985) is concerned with the function and status of poetry in the twentieth century, and is particularly concerned to contrast attitudes in Britain and America with those in... -
Andrei Bitov: The Ecology of Inspiration by Ellen Chances 9780521025270
RRP: $72.13$55.34This is the first book on Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers. It plots his evolution from his early publications of the post-Stalin years to his mature masterpieces of the glasnost era. Ellen Chances assesses his place both... -
Irony in the Medieval Romance by Dennis Howard Green 9780521022163
RRP: $72.13$55.34Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor... -
Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras: Love, Legends, Language by Susan D. Cohen 9780333575451
RRP: $175.48$175.25The first comprehensive study of the narrative and stylistic characteristics of all of Marguerite Duras' major works. Through close textual readings with a particular focus on women's access to language, this book shows how Duras critiques and subverts... -
The Conscience of the Autobiographer: Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography by John D. Barbour 9780333554920
RRP: $175.48$175.25This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues,... -
Twentieth-Century European Drama by Brian Docherty 9780333532843
RRP: $175.48$175.25This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud,... -
Jeremias Gotthelf: An Introduction to the Swiss Novelist by Basil Blackwell 9780313202315
$109.12This books aim is to introduce the English reader to the major Swiss novelist.Book InformationISBN 9780313202315Author Basil BlackwellFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Belgian Memories by Catherine Labio 9780300097726
$35.30What is the nature of the relationship between memory, identity, and culture in a recently federalized nation? In Belgian Memories, writers and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including ethnology, linguistics, philosophy, literature,... -
A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927 by George C. Schoolfield 9780300047141
$124.23During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals-"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and... -
Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism by A. Schmidt 9780230616004
RRP: $87.73$87.69Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Arnold Schmidt discusses the impact of Byron's life and works on the discourse of Italian nationalism between 1818 and 1948, his participation in Grand Tour and salon culture, and his influence on Italian... -
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation by Brooke Heidenreich Findley 9780230112582
RRP: $87.73$87.69Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often... -
World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction by Jon Hegglund 9780199796106
RRP: $130.65$101.61Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the large, unseen structures that formed the planet itself. World Views shows how both modernist and... -
Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature by Max Saunders 9780199579761
RRP: $277.88$200.97I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valery, Moi. Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism... -
An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature by Roderick Beaton 9780198159742
RRP: $214.50$167.41This is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton's 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period, seen as a whole, and... -
Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony by Jennifer Bajorek 9780804758246
$123.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community: Strange Fraternity by Kaoru Yamamoto 9781350090026
RRP: $68.23$38.42Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community uses Conrad's phrase 'strange fraternity' from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on... -
German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust: Complicity and Gender in the Second World War by Elisabeth Krimmer 9781108472821
RRP: $175.50$92.78This important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, and autobiographically inspired fiction. Through a historical and literary study of the complex relationship between... -
Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to 'King Lear' by Christopher Martin 9781558499737 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.65$10.34How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I's reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age? Was late life seen primarily as a time of withdrawal... -
Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman by Nicholas Tucker 9781840464825 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.63$4.11What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes - and who, or what, is Dust? Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials has been appreciated... -
Lamartine: Pages Choisies by Arthur Wilson-Green 9781107635166 [USED COPY]
RRP: $72.13$24.61Originally published in 1932, this book contains the French text of fifty-five selections from the works of Alphonse de Lamartine. Arthur Wilson-Green has chosen extracts that tell the story of Lamartine's life and describe the people he knew or who...