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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410201881Author Herman GrimmFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916379926Author Jules SupervielleFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Scripta HumanisticaPublisher Scripta HumanisticaWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Sceve's poem cycle Delie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great forgotten masterpieces of French poetry. A contemporary...

Through an analysis of French hagiography and the vernacular translations of nineteen saints' lives, Johnson and Cazelles explore the impact of saints on ordinary men and the relationship between holiness and heroism in the twelfth century. Divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999892930Author Jack HirschmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Swimming with Elephants PublicationsPublisher Swimming with Elephants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934639207Author Ida BorjelFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Commune EditionsPublisher Commune Editions

The transformation of Late Petrarchism from earlier stages reflects a profound shift in cultural values--a 'crisis of the Renaissance' that generated new perspectives in poetic theory and practice. Broadly, this book identifies a distinctive 'poetics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544311749Author Anna Andreevna AkhmatovaFormat HardbackImprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 381g

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as...

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, defying convention, and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999580363Author Lucian BlagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Black Widow PressPublisher Black Widow PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954977108Author Knut OdegardFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Waxwing PoemsPublisher Waxwing Poems

Raser questions criticism's predilection for a scientific discourse, arguing that aesthetic categories are better indicators of a text's literary qualities. Although aesthetics has claimed subjective pleasure as its sole criterion since the time of Kant,...

Volume 206 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892060Author Julia Field CostichFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932440372Author Emmanuel MosesFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Oberlin College PressPublisher Oberlin College Press

Internationally acclaimed Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun wrote Blackboards in 1997, and two years later celebrated Slovenian artist Metka Krasovec painted "Trak," a captivating series of images spanning one long scroll of paper. Joined together,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906228654Author Yann LovelockFormat PaperbackImprint Iron PressPublisher Iron PressWeight(grams) 137g

Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah...

Some months before the year of revolutions a late friend took a train into the heartland of what was held up as a model of despotism; a stopping train, in his compartment one other passenger clad in a blue suit needing thirty minutes attention from a...

In her book, Chrusciel maps the biblical event of annunciation onto the current migration crises. Annunciation becomes a symbol of the "yes" that we utter in front of reality, particularly confronted with exiles, strangers-in other words, the...

Curtains, blinds, draperies, shades, no, nothing Madame, to conceal from your Cyclops' eye in the shadows from which it spies on me this long pale body, false corpse tired out with debauchery, which is swooning too before your balcony, with your drying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999892985Author Jack HirschmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Swimming with Elephants PublicationsPublisher Swimming with Elephants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998932255Author Bengt O BjorklundFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Middle Creek Publishing & AudioPublisher Middle Creek Publishing &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820333731Author Edward K. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996072236Author Floarea TutuianuFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Plamen PressPublisher Plamen PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599101576Author Michael A NewthFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Poems deal with childhood, color, censorship, freedom, greed, loneliness, love, pain, and mortality.About the AuthorNina Cassian (1924-2014) was born in Galati, Romania. A composer, journalist, film critic, and translator of Shakespeare and Brecht,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991532148Author Kornelijus PlatelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692916315Author Chris DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Monday Creek PublishingPublisher Monday Creek PublishingWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

I am I. I am personal. I am subjective, intimate, private, particular, confessional. All that happens, happens to me. The landscape I describe is myself. . . . If you're interested in birds, trees, rivers, try reference books. Don't read my poems. I'm no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393044034Author Mario LuziFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.About the AuthorRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young...

Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire...

Jenkins challenges the notion that Lemaire's recourse to rhetoric was an artistic failure, arguing that rhetoric was actually his success. He demonstrates the importance of rhetoric in pre-Renaissance French literature, filling a crucial gap in previous...

This is the first complete edition of an anonymous late medieval Catalan translation of Italian writer Bernardo Illicino's commentary on Petrarch's Triumphs . Although the translation of Illicino's commentary is considered a classic of Catalan prose by...

Jones's edition of Cort d'amor with English facing translation is a welcome addition to studies on Occitan literature. This edition includes notes for both languages, an index of proper names, and a glossary. Prior to the edition itself, the monograph...

This volume contains an introduction and translation into English of six poems by Geffroi de Paris, the fourteenth-century French writer and author of Chronique metrique de Philippe le Bel, or Chronique rimee de Geoffroi de Paris. A glossary of proper...

Brazil, the world's fourth largest democracy, has been plagued in recent years by corruption scandals. Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability considers the performance of the Brazilian federal accountability system with a...

Jones argues that the Old French epic Hervis de Mes offers valuable insight into the expansion and diversification of a prominent medieval genre. In the early thirteenth century, the chanson de geste diversified by assimilating plots, compositional...

The first work of genuine literary merit in Old French is the Vie de saint Alexis, and later reworkings of it attest to its popularity. This volume offers two editions: a twelfth-century edition that was published inaccurately by Gaston Paris, and a...