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Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.ーthe date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance languageーto the present decade is the most……続きを見る

The essays included in this collection seek to take the pulse of recent developments in narratological research in the French-speaking countries. Theorists in these countries heavily participated in……続きを見る

Among the Jewish writers who emigrated from Eastern Europe to France in the 1910s and 1920s, a number chose to switch from writing in their languages of origin to writing primarily in French, a lang……続きを見る

Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, b……続きを見る

Hoarding Memory looks at the ways the stories of the Algerian War (1954–62) have proliferated among the former French citizens of Algeria. By engaging hoarding as a model, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrate……続きを見る

The impact of the Algerian War (1954-1962) continues to resonate in France, where the subject was long repressed in the collective psyche. This book sheds new light on a memory community at the hear……続きを見る

In Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France, Mouflard argues that the identity politics surrounding the immigration discourse of early twenty-first century France were reflected in the marketing an……続きを見る

At the end of French colonization in Algeria, four categories of people held French citizenship or had strong ties with France: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. The end o……続きを見る

The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the wor……続きを見る

A comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers and critics. This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American ……続きを見る

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction. With published work spanning more than forty years, Julia Kristeva's influence in psychoanalysis and literary theory is difficult to overstate. In ……続きを見る

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Theorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth cen……続きを見る

An abbot's ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence. Both Gothic and ph……続きを見る

A comparative study of Latin American and francophone postcoloniality. Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial i……続きを見る

A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot. Dramatic Experiments offers a comprehensive study of Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of European mo……続きを見る

Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. French novelist Marcel Proust made famous "involuntary memory," a peculiar kind of memory that works whether on……続きを見る

Highlights the extent to which the two thinkers share a common philosophical framework, while also demonstrating how Levinas shifts the orientation of philosophical thinking from truth to justice. T……続きを見る

Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its litera……続きを見る

This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging pos……続きを見る

‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship betw……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2022 How do modern writers write colour? How do today's readers respond to the invitation to 'think colour' as they read poetry and art writing, and explore ……続きを見る

Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous – and at times infamous – autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casano……続きを見る

The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were l……続きを見る

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or……続きを見る

This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheti……続きを見る

French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films ……続きを見る

In George Saintsbury's 'History of the French Novel,' readers are taken on a thorough exploration of French literature, tracing the evolution of the novel from its early beginnings to more modern de……続きを見る

The year 2018 marked the fiftieth anniversary of May ’68, a startling, by now almost mythic event which combined seriousness, courage, humor and theatrics. The contributions of this volumeーbased on……続きを見る

"Began to read 'Monte Cristo' at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night." ーWilliam Makepeace Thackeray "Alexandre Dumas is more than French, he is European; he's more than European,……続きを見る

Writing the Black Decade: Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature examines how literatureーand the way we read, classify, and critique literatureーimpacts our understanding of the ……続きを見る