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Gemini by Michel Tournier
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.48Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call them Jean-Paul. The mysterious bond between them excludes all others; they speak their own language;... -
Michel Tournier by Michael Worton
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £49.46This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.About the AuthorMichael Worton is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language... -
Friday by Michel Tournier 9781681379814
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.96Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ogre by Michel Tournier 9780801855900
Booksplease Price: £26.12An international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsession. It follows the passage of... -
Michel Tournier by David Gascoigne 9781859730843
Booksplease Price: £36.82This intriguing book provides a up-to-date introduction to the works of Michel Tournier, arguably the most internationally influential French novelist of the last 25 years. His novels have been... -
The Four Wise Men Michel Tournier 9780801857331
Booksplease Price: £22.68Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem--and audaciously... -
Deleuze in Children's Literature by Jane Newland
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23This study invites Deleuze into the genre of children's literature and explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance our readings of this literature whose implied readership masks much paradox. In... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful,... -
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives Sandra L. Beckett 9780415879361
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08In Crossover Fiction, Sandra L. Beckett explores the global trend of crossover literature and explains how it is transforming literary canons, concepts of readership, the status of authors, the... -
Crusoe's Footprint by Patrick Chamoiseau 9780813949055
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison 9780226317892
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £24.38Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful,... -
On Paedophilia Cosimo Schinaia 9780367325800
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £119.27This book deepens the communicative dynamics by which even through the mass media the paedophile has become the plague-spreader. It is an attempt to underline that only an integrative approach can... -
Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French: Queering the Martyr by Jason James Hartford 9783319719023
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian... -
Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults Sandra L. Beckett 9781138798984
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults is a collection of essays on twentieth-century authors who cross the borders between adult and children's literature and... -
The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics by Jane Bennett
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks... -
The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature by Ricardo J. Quinones 9780691605791
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.09Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture... -
Deleuze in Children's Literature by Jane Newland 9781474466677
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.71Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied readership masks much paradox. She focuses on children's texts by some of the... -
Audio Book: Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction by Mikko Keskinen 9780739118313
Booksplease Price: £96.35Audio Book deals with the ways in which the auditory-voices, sounds, noises-is represented in postphonograph narrative fiction. More specifically, it examines how the various technologies enabling... -
Testimony from the Nazi Camps: French Women's Voices by Margaret-Anne Hutton
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to... -
Narratives of French Modernity: Themes, Forms and Metamorphoses- Essays in Honour of David Gascoigne by Lorna Milne 9783039110513
RRP: £49.30Booksplease Price: £44.46Inspired by the work of their colleague David Gascoigne, a group of scholars from the UK and France examine in this book the narrative strategies of some of the most interesting and important French... -
Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature by Dr. Tomáš Jirsa 9781501362347
Booksplease Price: £91.39What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an... -
Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature by Dr. Tomas Jirsa 9781501374890
Booksplease Price: £33.84What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an... -
Paris Stories by Shaun Whiteside
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the... -
Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK by Mairi Maclean 9781403935793
Booksplease Price: £90.56Business Elites and Corporate Governance in France and the UK is a cross-national study of business elites and corporate governance in France and the UK. It examines corporate governance from a... -
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies by Lawrence R. Schehr
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction... -
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780804729208
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The subject of this original and provocative work is the white male body, a counterpoint in gender studies to the many readings of the representation of the female body. To look at the construction... -
Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics: A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction by Jonathan F. Krell 9781837644094
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to... -
Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics: A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction by Jonathan F. Krell
Booksplease Price: £119.73In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to...