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Tracing the relationship between truth and justice as articulated by Heidegger and Levinas, Rozemund Uljée presents the relation between the two thinkers as a subtle, profound, and complex rapport, ……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

Ecrivain, romancier, poète, journaliste et académicien (1931), Pierre Benoit a enchanté des millions de lecteurs du début des années 1920 à la fin des années 1950. Jusqu'à présent, les contributions……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

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 paintings? To what extent can critical thought……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

“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

Drawing from five contemporary French poetsーJacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques JouetーAnn Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for ph……続きを見る

Las claves de Julio Verne. La novela [de aventuras] de nueva forma no es un análisis de su estilo literario, aunque contiene constantes alusiones a apartes de las obras. Tampoco es un estudio biográ……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" ? countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland ? pi……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