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Counterfactuals by Christopher Prendergast 9781350090088
Booksplease Price: €101.92What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they... -
Septembers Christopher Prendergast 9781907773785
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94`Annabel was a black and white figure in the distance, going in through the front doors. She worked behind the reception. I was a history teacher.' As we meet Matt, lying across the backseat of his... -
Counterfactuals by Christopher Prendergast 9781350090095
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €29.36What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they... -
Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."-Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster "Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."-Lydia Davis, winner... -
Debating World Literature by Christopher Prendergast 9781859844588
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €20.47In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its... -
Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams by Christopher Prendergast 9780816622818
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €23.98The work of Raymond Williams is of seminal importance in the culture and knowledge industry. He is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of international cultural studies. In tribute to his... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €42.20Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of... -
Spectacles Of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre by Christopher Prendergast 9780816625215
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78A rethinking of realism that reveals its relevance to sexual and cultural politics.Despite rumors of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is... -
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert by Christopher Prendergast 9780521369770
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €46.66This 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... -
Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading by Christopher Prendergast 9780521347747
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €49.06An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
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For the People, by the People?: Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres De Paris" - A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: €83.29Booksplease Price: €76.55Eugene Sue (1804-57), like his contemporary Alexandre Dumas pere, was one of the most successful writers of his time. Les Mysteres de Paris, the novel for which he is most remembered, became a... -
In Search of Lost Time: The Prisoner and the Fugitive by Marcel Proust
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.18Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French by Carole Bourne-Taylor 9781789972733
RRP: €55.57Booksplease Price: €50.24"From Freud and psychoanalysis to Derrida and philosophy, the question of mourning has been central to a whole strain of modern thought, especially in France. This fascinating and illuminating... -
In Search of Lost Time: Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.98Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.20Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid... -
History and Ideology in Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu and the Third French Republic by Michael Sprinker 9780521453424
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €102.51This critical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past offers a fresh, socio-historical analysis of the novel. Departing from the more formalist and rhetorical trends in recent Proust... -
Plantation Society and Race Relations: The Origins of Inequality by Thomas J. Durant 9780275958084
Booksplease Price: €115.01For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life... -
Literary Theory Today Peter Collier 9780745609720
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29This volume assesses the current state of Literacy Theory and examines the issues to be addressed by future research. The essays cover established theoretical perspectives and debates and also... -
Romanticism, Realism and the Lines of Mimesis Polly Dickson 9781399506519
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.68Since Plato's Republic, mimesis - the artwork's tacit claim to reflect or imitate real life - has faced a near-constant stream of assaults, being accused of naturalising a supposedly uncomplicated... -
What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Professor Michael Lucey 9780226816654
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €115.31Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental... -
Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing Professor Susan Harrow (University of Bristol, UK) 9781526637758
Booksplease Price: €35.59As joint winner of the Gapper Book Prize, 2021, this new edition of Susan Harrow's award-winning study of modern French poetry and art writing offers a bold approach to studying the relationship... -
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts by Marcel Proust
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €26.20Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century's most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the... -
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts Marcel Proust 9780674301580
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €19.68A Washington Post Book That Shouldn't Be Overlooked"Fascinating...In these drafts, we see the emerging elements of the Recherche as through a glass darkly." -The Telegraph"If you delight in...