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  • - In Different Words
    von Leslie (University of Warwick) Hill
    51,00 €

    This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary literary theory, the book rejects the idea that Beckett is an author committed to expressing a particular view of the world.

  • - Universe in Mind
     
    61,00 €

    The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Paul Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. This 1999 volume of essays by internationally recognised scholars offered the first comprehensive account of Valery's work in English or French.

  • von Hugh M. Davidson
    53,00 - 191,00 €

    This 1993 book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical 'liberal arts', rhetoric, dialectic and geometry, pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth.

  • - Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse
    von Clive Scott
    55,00 - 145,00 €

    Dr Scott argues that only by attending to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understanding the often conflicting demands of rhythm and metre, can the reader of poetry acquire a real grasp of the intimate life of words in verse with all their fluctuations of meaning, mood and tone.

  • - The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
    von Professor Janell Watson
    77,00 - 146,00 €

    Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.

  • - The Dramatic Word
    von Gillian (University of Cambridge) Jondorf
    51,00 - 128,00 €

    The tragedies produced in France in the sixteenth century by writers such as Garnier, La Taille, and Jodelle are increasingly accessible in good modern editions. Their subject matter included Bible stories and recent history, as well as Greek legend and Roman history. Until now, scholars have tended to regard them as a staging post on the road to Corneille and Racine.

  • von Michèle Longino
    70,00 - 147,00 €

    Michele Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Moliere and Racine, and offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity.

  • von Nicholas White
    69,00 - 167,00 €

    The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction, first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide cultural field, including legal, popular and academic discourses on the family and its discontents. His account encourages a close rereading of canonical as well as overlooked texts from fin de siecle France. What emerges between the death of Flaubert in 1880 and the publication of Bourget's Un divorce in 1904 is a series of Naturalist and post-Naturalist representations of transgressive behaviour in which tales of adultery, illegitimacy, consanguinity, incest and divorce serve to exemplify and to offer a range of nuances on the Third Republic's crisis in what might now be termed 'family values'.

  • von Sarah (University of Cambridge) Kay
    70,00 - 174,00 €

    The medieval troubadours of the south of France profoundly influenced European literature for many centuries. This book is a full-length study of the first-person position adopted by many of them in its relation to language and society. Using theoretical approaches, Sarah Kay discusses to what extent this first person is a 'self' or 'character', and how far it is self-determining.

  • von Roberta L. (Hamilton College Krueger
    58,00 €

    This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.

  • - Sites of Imaginary Space
    von Dee (University of Bristol) Reynolds
    66,00 €

    This innovative analysis of the role of imagination as a central concept in both literary and art criticism studies works by Rimbaud, Mallarme, Kandinsky, and Mondrian.

  • - Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse
    von Elza (Queen Mary University of London) Adamowicz
    72,00 €

    This book offers a new analysis of Surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. Illustrating many of the collages under discussion, it offers close readings of individual collages and proposes a radical reassessment of Surrealism.

  • - Freud, Lacan and Derrida
    von John Forrester
    58,00 €

    The Seductions of Psychoanalysis explores the most seductive of all recent psychoanalytic traditions, that inspired by Jacques Lacan, whose radical questioning of previously accepted psychoanalytic effects has been continued implicitly by Michel Foucault and explicitly by Jacques Derrida.

  • - The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting
    von James H. Reid
    69,00 - 175,00 €

    This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the deceitfulness of their own texts.

  • - Collected Essays, 1953-1988
    von F. W. Leakey
    65,00 - 191,00 €

    This book of linked essays contains the first critical study of Baudelaire's development as a poet, from his youth onwards. It also includes studies of the development of Baudelaire's aesthetic, detailed commentaries on a number of his finest poems, and accounts of three intriguing and crucial 'encounters' with notable contemporaries.

  • - Truth and Propaganda in Stael's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810-1813
    von John Claiborne Isbell
    54,00 - 174,00 €

    An important study of the book which invented European Romanticism, Stael's De l'Allemagne.

  • - Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert
    von Christopher Prendergast
    66,00 €

    Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism.

  • - Essays on Seventeenth-Century French Literature
     
    49,00 €

    David Bellos's introduction sets Spitzer's method of textual and stylistic interpretation in its historical context and sketches out the career of this supremely knowledgeable reader for whom knowledge was less important than understanding.

  • von Christopher Johnson
    47,00 €

    An important new critical analysis of Derrida's theory of writing, based upon close readings of key texts.

  • - Structures of Subversion
    von Jerome Schwartz
    51,00 €

    Since the appearance of Bakhtin's famous study of Rabelais and popular culture, Rabelais's writings have been a major focus of debate in literary and cultural criticism. Jerome Schwartz draws on both sides of the historical/formalist debate in this new reading of the four authentic books of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.

  • - A Study in the Sources of Poetic Creativity
    von Richard D. E. Burton
    51,00 €

    This book is an intensive study of what was by far the most productive year in Baudelaire's literary career. It combines biographical investigation with detailed textual analysis in order to locate the sources of the extraordinary 'explosion' (Baudelaires' own word) of poetic creativity that he experienced during that year.

  • - Writing the Visible
    von Celia Britton
    57,00 €

    This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongside a very different king of free-floating, anti-realist writing.

  • - Dialogue and Discourse in Four "Modern" Novels
    von Stirling Haig
    51,00 €

    This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's starting point is Sartre's observation that 'Flaubert does not believe that we speak: we are spoken'.

  • - Feminism and Manon Lescaut
    von Naomi Segal
    46,00 €

    This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It aims to analyse the narrator's presentation of this story of a young man's passion for a femme fatale and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates.

  • von Michael Moriarty
    46,00 €

    This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Mere, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender.

  • - Visual and Aural Signs and the Generation of Meaning
    von Penny Florence
    48,00 €

    This study, first published in 1986, examines the many facets of Mallarmes relationship to the visual arts.

  • - The Language of Illusion
    von Diana Knight
    46,00 €

    This major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by a number of contemporary critics who claim that character is deliberately undermined in the interests of non-representational writing.

  • - From Genesis to Jules Verne
    von Andrew Martin
    50,00 €

    This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring the recurrent paradox which equates pure ignorance with perfect knowledge, twin ideals free from the impurities and imperfections of discourse.

  • von Ann Jefferson
    63,00 €

    This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process?

  • - Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century France
    von Ann Moss
    46,00 €

    This book is a major study of the development of French poetry in the Renaissance, which examines changes in style and vision by looking both at how poetry was read in this period and how it was written.

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