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Tragedy and the Return of the Dead by John D. Lyons 9780810137042
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Early modernity rediscovered tragedy in the dramas and the theoretical writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Attempting to make new tragic fictions, writers like Shakespeare, Webster, Hardy,... -
Learned Un Happiness by John D Lyons 9781982295424
Booksplease Price: $9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982295424Author John D LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Balboa Press AuPublisher Balboa... -
French Literature: A Very Short Introduction by John D. Lyons
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.48The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached... -
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature by John D. Lyons 9781107665224
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to French Literature by John D. Lyons 9781107036048
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $104.66In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and... -
Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France by John D. Lyons
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $114.00In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In... -
Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage by Prof John D. Lyons 9780198887379
Booksplease Price: $109.62This is a book about how Moliere, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his... -
Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy by John D. Lyons 9780691602684
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $57.53Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John... -
Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau by John D. Lyons 9780804751100
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a... -
The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales by John D. Lyons 9781644531624
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $85.73In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American... -
The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales by John D. Lyons 9781644531631
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.35In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American... -
Coups de maitre: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in Honour of John D. Lyons by Michael Meere 9781789971453
RRP: $68.89Booksplease Price: $62.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789971453Author Michael MeereFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Peter Lang International... -
Method and Variation: Narrative in Early Modern French Thought by Emma Gilby
Booksplease Price: $107.12This book explores the place of enquiries into literality and fictiveness in early modern French thought, making a historically sensitive contribution to the study of early modern narrative and the... -
Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault by Philip Lewis
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01During the first half of the reign of Louis XIV, Charles Perrault enjoyed the status of a prominent public intellectual. A key player in the development of the arts, he has commonly been situated in... -
Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics by Michael Meere 9780192844132
Booksplease Price: $116.14The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story... -
The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France Larry F. Norman 9780226591483
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $63.44The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. One of... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081304
Booksplease Price: $53.95In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081298
RRP: $107.06Booksplease Price: $102.49In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of... -
Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night by Timothy Chesters 9780199599806
RRP: $196.73Booksplease Price: $146.42Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610)... -
The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart by Richard Goodkin 9798887198446
RRP: $34.24Booksplease Price: $26.15The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Bejart transports readers to 17th-century France, a time when the stage was as full of intrigue as the lives of those who performed on it.At the heart of this richly...