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“Simply Proust pulls off with ease the arduous task of making Marcel Proust’s masterwork accessible, without sacrificing none of the complexity that makes it one of the most important novels of the ……続きを見る

Paris in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries was home to some of the most creative people on earth. These men and women, whose names are so famous, are now acclaimed as revolutionaries of the human s……続きを見る

Born in 1920 on the edge of Tunis’s Jewish quarter, the French-Jewish-Tunisian sociologist, philosopher, and novelist Albert Memmi has been a central figure in colonial and postcolonial studies. Oft……続きを見る

"Notre Dame De Paris: scritttura e riscrittura" è un'analisi elaborata in maniera dettagliata, da Ciro Ambrosanio, sulla figura del personaggio di Phoebus de Chateaupers dell'opera "Notre Dame De Pa……続きを見る

Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible. Drawing from five contemporary Frenc……続きを見る

In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts rangi……続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the ……続きを見る

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" ー countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland ー ……続きを見る

People in medieval England talked, and yet we seldom talk or write about their talk. People conversed not within literary texts, but in the world in which those texts were composed and copied. The a……続きを見る

17 November 1979 You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post ca……続きを見る

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually infor……続きを見る

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France is a study of how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of three major literary figures of the French Renaissance: Jean Lemaire de Belges……続きを見る

This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, we observe a shift in thinking about memory and forgetting. Focusing on a corpus of texts by……続きを見る

Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures by Joseph Acquisto examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Cru……続きを見る

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust. The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the signif……続きを見る

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually infor……続きを見る

O livro Théophile Gautier – Escritor de Narrativas: o fantástico e o amor romântico em Avatar apresenta a contribuição do francês Théophile Gautier à fortuna crítica da Literatura de Modalidade Fant……続きを見る

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses. Already in his earlier works, Artaud tried to express his physical and mental suffering, but perceived, in desc……続きを見る

In seventeenth-century Antilles the violence of dispossession and enslavement was mapped onto men’s and women’s bodies, bolstered by resignified tropes of gender, repurposed concepts of disability, ……続きを見る

We live in a neoliberal regime that works to dismantle social institutions and eradicate forms of collective gathering. Over and against this state of affairs, Collectivity in Struggle revisits a cr……続きを見る

"This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the hee……続きを見る

This collection is the first full-length literary study on Machaut, France's leading poet and musician of the 14th century. Machaut's narrative poems, called dits, have only been lightly studied. He……続きを見る

Contra Sainte-Beuve é o livro sombra de Em busca do tempo perdido. Antes de escrever sua obra-prima, Marcel Proust elabora neste livro as suas considerações mais profundas sobre a necessidade de esc……続きを見る

They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those write……続きを見る

Dans 'L'homme sans nom', Pierre-Simon Ballanche nous plonge dans un récit introspectif et philosophique mêlant réalité et allégorie. À travers la quête identitaire de son protagoniste, Ballanche exp……続きを見る

description_du_livre Les coquines représente une exploration littéraire audacieuse et diverse des thèmes liés à l'érotisme et aux jeux de séduction. Cette anthologie se distingue par l'assemblage éc……続きを見る

Dans "Cherchez la femme", A. Matthey nous plonge dans une exploration complexe des relations humaines et des enjeux de genre à travers un récit où les personnages féminins occupent une place central……続きを見る

Dans "Réponse à l'Examen critique des mémoires de Fléchier", Benoît Gonod adopte un style érudit et polémique pour défendre et éclaircir la pensée du célèbre mémorialiste. L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans u……続きを見る