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Genealogies of the Text
Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France
Inbunden, 1995
2041 kr
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In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair' - a scandal provoked by Mehlman's revelation in …
A Question of Syllables
Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse
Av Clive Scott, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2005
692 kr
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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 …
Naturalist Fiction
The Entropic Vision
Av David Baguley, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2005
916 kr
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This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. It focuses mainly on French naturalist literature, analysing a number of key works in detail, but also draws examples from other national traditions, particularly from the English novel. Professor Baguley questions …
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Av Simon Gaunt, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2005
916 kr
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This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan literature by charting the relationship between ideology and gender in five key genres: the chansons de geste, courtly romance, the Occitan canso, hagiography, and the fabliaux. Simon Gaunt offers new …
Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France
Av Timothy Mathews, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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In Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay, Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century. The well-illustrated book engages with canonical figures - Guillaume Apollinaire, Marguerite Duras and Jean Genet, Roland Barthes, Pablo Picasso …
The Poetry of François Villon
Text and Context
Av Jane H. M. Taylor, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
677 kr
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This book casts new light on the life and work of François Villon, one of the most famous but least understood poets of the later Middle Ages. Traditionally Villon has been viewed by scholars as an alienated outsider in his own time, whose work was in many respects derivative and commonplace. Jane …
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Alison Finch, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
916 kr
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This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers reflects the rich diversity of a century that begins with Mme de Staël's cosmopolitanism and ends with Rachilde's perverse eroticism. Finch's …
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
Av Floyd Gray, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected both by rhetorical conventions and by the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Focusing on a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, …
Orientalism in French Classical Drama
Av Michèle Longino, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine, Le Cid, Médée, and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the …
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
Av Janell Watson, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
916 kr
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This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the …
Baudelaire
Collected Essays, 1953-1988
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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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 …
French Renaissance Tragedy
The Dramatic Word
Av Gillian Jondorf, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
654 kr
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The principle aim of this 1990 book is to encourage readers to find pleasure in sixteenth-century tragedies. To this end, Gillian Jondorf examines a range of plays (all accessible in modern editions) in two ways. She suggests, by means of comparisons with other works, that techniques such as …
Baudelaire and Intertextuality
Poetry at the Crossroads
Av Margery A. Evans, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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This 1993 reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris is a response to Baudelaire's own challenge to read his text as one in which 'everything ... is head and tail, alternately and reciprocally'. Margery Evans proposes that Le Spleen de Paris serves to question the conventions of prose forms such as …
The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève
Poetry and Struggle
Av Jerry C. Nash, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint. It calls into question the traditional critical view of Scève as a poet consumed by the anguish and darkness of unrequited love, and frustrated by poetic and erotic quests which lead him nowhere. Professor Nash …
Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
Bienfaisance and Pudeur
Av Judith Still, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
640 kr
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According to Rousseau, the best relationship between unequals is one of 'benificence', giving, receiving and repaying benefits. This 1993 book addresses the problem implicit in his writings of whether it is indeed possible for a just and generous relationship to exist between non-equals. Judith …
Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820
Av David J. Denby, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and sensibility. He reveals how sentimental sub-literature reflects the social attitudes of the emerging bourgeoisie, and how its formal structures are reflected …
Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature
From Loti to Genet
Av Edward J. Hughes, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
677 kr
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Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature, first published in 2001, explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. It analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: …
Michel Leiris
Writing the Self
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris's work. Frequently cited as a central figure in contemporary French culture, Leiris was an outstanding writer whose double career as ethnographer and creative writer places him at important points of intersection within French cultural …
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
Nostalgic Utopias
Av Lewis C. Seifert, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
842 kr
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Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and, integrating socio-historical, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches, …
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Av Nicholas White, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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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 …
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory
Questions of Difference
Av Ann Jefferson, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her own distinctive concerns. In this major 2000 …
Proust, the Body and Literary Form
Av Michael R. Finn, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
673 kr
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This 1999 study examines the connections between Proust's fin-de-siècle 'nervousness' and his apprehensions regarding literary form. Michael Finn shows that Proust's anxieties both about bodily weakness and about novel-writing were fed by a set of intriguing psychological and medical texts, and …
Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
The Temporality of Lying and Forgetting
Av James H. Reid, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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This new study of the nineteenth-century French realist novel focuses on the difference, and fundamental incompatibility, between the narrative and the descriptive modes of discourse. James Reid shows how the major novelists, Balzac, Flaubert and Zola, like some of their twentieth-century …
Politeness and its Discontents
Problems in French Classical Culture
Av Peter France, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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This is a 1992 study of writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in France, but also in Britain and Russia. Its focus is on the establishing and questioning of rational, 'civilized' norms of 'politeness', which in the ancien régime meant not just polite manners, but a certain …
Reading the French Enlightenment
System and Subversion
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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In this 1999 book, Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse. Taking issue both with traditional liberal and contemporary critical accounts of the Enlightenment, she analyses the writings of Denis …
Politics and Narratives of Birth
Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola
Häftad, 2006
640 kr
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This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic, Rousseau, Constant and …
Where Flaubert Lies
Chronology, Mythology and History
Av Claire Addison, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
767 kr
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This book offers crucial perspectives on the vexed question of chronology in Flaubert's work. Critics have struggled long and hard with the apparent inconsistencies in his writing, but Claire Addison's study reveals that the situation is far more subtle, complex and intriguing than hitherto …
Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
The Socio-Poetics of Modernism
Av Eugene W. Holland, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
729 kr
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This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides an illuminating approach to the poetry and art criticism of the foremost French …
Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
Av Sarah Kay, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
898 kr
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The songs of the troubadour poets of the south of France were a pervasive influence in the development of the European lyric (and indeed other genres) from the twelfth century to the Renaissance and beyond. Much troubadour poetry is on the topic of love, and is composed from a first-person …
The Birth of European Romanticism
Truth and Propaganda in Staël's 'De l'Allemagne', 1810-1813
Av John Claiborne Isbell, Michael Sheringham
Häftad, 2006
692 kr
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It was through Staël's best-seller De l'Allemagne that the term 'Romanticism', coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Staël built a new and universal agenda: her manifesto offered Napoleon's Europe an alternative to everything he stood for. The new universe she revealed …
