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The Novel of Worldliness: Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal by Peter Brooks 9780691621883
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Contending that a search for "realism" distorts the writing of Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters... -
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert by Christopher Prendergast 9780521369770
Booksplease Price: £43.34This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work... -
The Literary in Theory by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Has theory neglected literature? Often literary and cultural theory, which goes by the nickname "Theory," has seemed to be the theory of everything except literature: theory of language, of... -
Los Cenci: Y Otras Cronicas Italianas by Beyle Henry Stendhal
Booksplease Price: £21.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788493592790Author Beyle Henry StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Im -
Stendhal's Italy: Themes of Political and Religious Satire by A.E. Greaves 9780859894463
Booksplease Price: £102.12The essential thrust of this book is an examination of the origins and development of the satirical element of Stendal's writing in Italy, which culminates with the creation of what many critics... -
Perfidious Albion: The story of Stendhal and British culture. by David Ellis 9781912224005
Booksplease Price: £70.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912224005Author David EllisFormat HardbackImprint -
Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist Hadley Suter 9780813955124
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the... -
Le rouge et le noir: in large print by Stendhal 9783368304515
RRP: £109.90Booksplease Price: £94.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783368304515Author StendhalFormat HardbackPage Count 764Imprint -
The Red and the Black: (translated with an Introduction by Horace B. Samuel) by Stendhal 9781420958492
Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958492Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint -
Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist Hadley Suter 9780813955117
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £73.60How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the... -
La Abadesa de Castro: Una Cronica Italiana by Beyle Henry Stendhal
Booksplease Price: £23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788493592707Author Beyle Henry StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Im -
Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's the Red and the Black by Dean de la Motte 9780873527477
Booksplease Price: £72.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873527477Author Dean de la MotteFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint -
Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female by Maria C. Scott
Booksplease Price: £90.68In this book, the author challenges the notion that French Realist fiction is peculiarly and intrinsically hostile to female freedom, arguing that it is criticism itself that has marginalized... -
Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female Maria C. Scott 9780367602024
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In this book, the author challenges the notion that French Realist fiction is peculiarly and intrinsically hostile to female freedom, arguing that it is criticism itself that has marginalized... -
The Stendhal Syndrome: Two Plays: Full Frontal Nudity and Prelude and Liebestod by Terrence McNally 9780802141507
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.22The Stendhal Syndrome is named for the French novelist, who on a visit to Florence had such a visceral and physical reaction to its beauty that he wrote, "I felt a pulsating in my heart. Life was... -
A Century of French Fiction: Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal and More by Benjamin W Wells Phd 9781633916012
RRP: £15.70Booksplease Price: £13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916012Author Benjamin W WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint
The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner by Helga Druxes 9780271028002
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.79While the decline of the male hero in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature is usually studied in isolation, Druxes uses a major manifestation of this phenomenon-the failing power of the Faust...
Falling in Love Zachary Seager 9781035045655
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.23The great subject of love - finding it, keeping it, losing it - has fascinated and consumed us since the beginning of time.By focusing on the most perceptive and influential thinkers, philosophers...
A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad by Bernard J. Paris
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49"Psychology helps us to talk about what the novelist knows, but fiction helps us to know what the psychologist is talking about." So writes the author of this brilliant study. The chief impulse of...
The European Roman d'Analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal by Professor Adele Kudish 9781501373756
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £19.72Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction" examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of...
Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Volume 3, Master Builders of the Spirit Jay Katz 9781412845953
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig's masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer's own ego...
The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life by Laurent Pernot 9780271092171
Booksplease Price: £33.85Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move...
The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life by Laurent Pernot 9780271091976
RRP: £83.99Booksplease Price: £74.76Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move...
The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature by Ilya Kliger 9780271050775
Booksplease Price: £36.28Its champions-and its detractors-have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters this widely accepted view. It argues instead that...
Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir by Jessica Hendry Nelson 9780820365473
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.15Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson's father dies from an accident caused by...
The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna: Followed by the Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy by Stendhal 9781108061971
Booksplease Price: £43.64Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. In his lifetime, he wrote in a variety of literary genres and under a...
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard by Ollivier Pourriol 9781788163286
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at everything. In the realm of love,...
Armance: Some Scenes From A Salon In Paris In 1827; Translated From The French By C. K. Scott-Moncrieff by Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) 9789353423162
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353423162Author Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)Format PaperbackPage Count 1
Reading the European Novel to 1900 by Daniel R. Schwarz 9781119517702
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.54"Schwarz's study is chock full of judicious evaluation of characters, narrative devices, ethical commentary, and helpful information about historical and political contexts including the role of...
Histoire d'Eleonore De Parme: source perdue de 'La Chartreuse de Parme' by Richard Bolster 9780859895361
Booksplease Price: £29.47In 1810, Stendhal read the sentimental novella "Histoire d'Eleonore de Parme", whose anonymous author was certainly a woman. This text poses the question: can it be asserted that Stendhal took...
The Lives of Haydn and Mozart,: With Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. Translated from the French of L.A.C. Bombet. ; With Notes, by the Author of the Sacred Melodies by Stendhal 9780371685358
Booksplease Price: £20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371685358Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint
From Goethe To Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1936 by Mary Orr 9780859897228
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.01From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at...
Common Life by Stéphane Bouquet
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play-all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.In three poems, one play, and three short stories, Stephane...
Freedom's Moment: An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault by Paul M. Cohen 9780226112862
Booksplease Price: £31.88Examining the principle of freedom propagated by the French Revolution, and the kind of individual created by it, this text looks at the lives and ideas of eight cultural critics from the 18th...
Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature by Francoise Meltzer 9780226519722
Booksplease Price: £36.05How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Francoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait-the painted portrait, framed-appears in various...
Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art by Cristina Albu 9780367884895
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and...
The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810-1900 Dr. Daniel Jenkin-Smith 9798765104781
Booksplease Price: £30.54Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.Literary critics have long cited the clerk in...
Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation Mike Robinson 9781138261143
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so...
Bertie Plays The Blues: 7 by Alexander McCall Smith 9780349000329
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals,...
The Sentiment of Reality: Truth of Feeling in the European Novel by Michael Bell 9780367610661
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The book takes the form of an...