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Mothers and Masters in Contemporary Utopian and Dystopian Literature
Av Mary Elizabeth Theis, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
928 kr
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Because advances made by science and technology far outstripped improvements in human nature, utopian dreams of perfect societies in the twentieth century quickly metamorphosed into dystopian nightmares, which undermined individual identity and threatened the integrity of the family. Armed with …
Disguise in George Sand’s Novels
Inbunden, 2009
1311 kr
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Sandian heroines swirl around men in their sororal and sartorial disguises like moths around candle flames. However, as Disguise in George Sand’s Novels illustrates, the disguise is not an instrument to seduce men but rather to assert the heroines’ true selves. The portrayal of female and …
Female Writers’ Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France- (1848-1871)
Inbunden, 2006
1095 kr
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Even after the turbulent events that culminated in the Revolution of 1848, French women remained disenfranchised and disillusioned due to their exclusion from the public domain. However, a group of pioneering women persistently challenged the issue of civil rights and the legal minority of women in …
Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia Teseida Delle Nozze Di Emilia
Inbunden, 2002
1397 kr
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The first epic poem written in Italian is the Teseida delle nozze di Emilia (Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia) by Giovanni Boccaccio, the well-known author of the Decameron . Conceived and composed during the Florentine author’s stay in Naples, it combines masterfully both epic and lyric themes in …
Locating Latin American Women Writers
Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende
Häftad, 2003
478 kr
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The end of the twentieth century witnessed a «boom» in the production, publication, readership, and scholarship of women’s writing from Latin America. In fact, the emergence of women writers is perhaps the most significant phenomenon of the «post-boom» period of Latin American literary history, a …
Staging Subversions
The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater
Av Kimberly Cashman, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
966 kr
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Staging Subversions: The Performance-within-a-Play in French Classical Theater defines a new type of metadrama using Le Tartuffe as its paradigm and explores the complex, ambiguous, and enlightening relationships that metadrama maintains with the social and political orders. While metadramatic …
Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice
Av Joseph Suglia, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
944 kr
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A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured. The work of Friedrich Hölderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this idea in fascinating ways. Much of Hölderlin’s critical reception, however, has the poet saying the exact opposite. Joseph …
Maupassant’s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life
Av Laurence A. Gregorio, Tamara Alvarez-Detrell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
819 kr
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The Naturalists wrote from a «scientific» point of view, and no science had more currency in society in the late nineteenth century than Darwin’s theory of evolution. Until now, this motif in Guy de Maupassant has escaped critical attention. Maupassant’s Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life …
360º Diary
Translated by Pamela J. DeWeese
Inbunden, 2008
933 kr
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Luis Goytisolo’s novel, 360º Diary, constitutes a reflection on the act of creativity. The novel is in the form of a diary that begins on the author’s birthday and concludes one (lunar) year later. Each day of the week is identified with a theme such as the seasons; the broad movements of history; …
Sentiment of Spending
Intimate Relationships and the Consumerist Environment in the Works of Zola, Rachilde, Maupassant, and Huysmans
Inbunden, 2008
1074 kr
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The nineteenth century saw a fundamental change in the practice and psychology of shopping with the appearance of the department store: La Samaritaine in Paris (1869), Macy’s in New York (1858) and Harrods in London (1849) were early representations of Western consumer culture. The Sentiment of …
Evolutionism in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
Inbunden, 2008
1101 kr
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This book examines how eight eighteenth-century French theorists – Maillet, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Maupertuis, Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire – addressed evolutionism. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually open the door to the mutability of species and a departure …
Writing Tangier
Av Ralph M. Coury, R. Kevin Lacey
Inbunden, 2009
1203 kr
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Writing Tangier discusses an array of topics relating to the literature on Tangier from the seventeenth century to the present. Major questions include: Why has Tangier come to play an important role in contemporary world literary history as a signifier in the literary imagination; what is the …
Memory in My Hands
The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
Inbunden, 2009
1377 kr
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Pedro Salinas (1892-1951), one of the greatest modern poets of any country, is unquestionably the preeminent love poet of twentieth-century Spain. Memory in My Hands includes an ample selection of his three books of love poetry – The Voice I Owe to You [La voz a ti debida], A Reason for Love [Razón …
Journeys of Formation
The Spanish American "Bildungsroman"
Inbunden, 2010
1040 kr
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Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American ‘Bildungsroman’ offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device and as a means of characterization in several of …
Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation
Desire and Limits for Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Mexican Fiction
Av Shigeko Mato
Inbunden, 2010
1117 kr
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Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda of society’s hegemonic currents? …
Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought
Inbunden, 2010
1014 kr
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Freedom in French Enlightenment Thought examines how five eighteenth-century French theorists – Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Condorcet – kindled the flame of freedom in America and France. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually inspire the language in …
Beautiful War
Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig
Inbunden, 2010
1117 kr
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Beautiful War explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig’s novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles …
Crossing Cultures- Cruzando culturas
Hispanic Authors and the Challenges They Overcame in the United States- Autores hispanos y sus desafíos superados en los Estados Unidos
Inbunden, 2011
1117 kr
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Crossing Cultures/Cruzando culturas focuses on the creation of literary works and how these works reflect the life experiences of the authors. The purpose of this book is to inspire young Mexican-American, Hispanic, and Latino people by demonstrating that education is the key to life through the …
Foundational Texts of World Literature
Inbunden, 2011
1106 kr
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What makes a world author? How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts? What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent translations of Dante’s …
Valéry’s Graveyard
«Le Cimetière marin» - Translated, Described, and Peopled
Av Hugh P. McGrath, Michael Comenetz
Inbunden, 2010
2098 kr
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Valéry’s Graveyard is in two parts. The first part presents the French text of Paul Valéry’s poem Le Cimetière marin (The Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English translation, followed by a descriptive account of the poem that sets out its main structural and dynamic features and traces its …
Two Plays by Denis Diderot
The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family- Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg
Av Kiki Gounaridou, John Hellweg
Inbunden, 2011
1074 kr
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family. These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, …
Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women
Inbunden, 2012
988 kr
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In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies: In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa León, and Seis años de mi vida …
Constance de Salm, Her Influence and Her Circle in the Aftermath of the French Revolution
«A Mind of No Common Order»
Inbunden, 2011
1160 kr
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Largely forgotten during the second half of the nineteenth century and throughout most of the twentieth century, Constance de Salm (Constance-Marie de Théis, Mme Pipelet de Leury, later Princess de Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck,) finally attracted the attention of such scholars as Elizabeth Colwill, …
Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora
Piecing Things Together
Av Francisco Cota Fagundes, Irene Maria F. Blayer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
998 kr
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Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora presents a variety of perspectives on the Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. The book is divided into three parts: reading literary identities within and without borders; constructing/constructed …
Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection
Contrary Affinities
Inbunden, 2011
790 kr
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This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is pervasive in French-American …
Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre
Inbunden, 2011
1093 kr
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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre examines how these five theorists recognized that searching for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of perversions. Cicero warned against seeking friends whom we regard as being everything that we are not: he …
«We Had Won the War»
Translated with an Introduction by Barbara F. Ichiishi
Inbunden, 2013
619 kr
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We Had Won the War (Habíamos ganado la Guerra) is the bestselling 2008 memoir about life in post-Civil War Barcelona by the acclaimed Spanish author Esther Tusquets. Unlike the majority of Spanish postwar narratives that are written from the perspective of those who lost the Civil War and suffered …
Peinture Ou Les Lecons Esthetiques Chez Marcel Proust
Av Yae-Jin Yoo
Inbunden, 2011
941 kr
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La peinture occupe une place privilegiee dans A la recherche du temps perdu dans la mesure ou elle fonctionne comme metaphore de l'ecriture. La peinture et l'ecriture, toutes les deux creatrices d'images, sont les moyens qui permettent a l'artiste de devoiler l'essence des choses. En integrant la …
Albert Camus Aujourd'hui
De L'Etranger au Premier Homme Preface de Gilles Bousquet
Inbunden, 2012
961 kr
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Le 04 janvier 1960, Albert Camus s'en allait un peu dans un tragique accident de voiture a l'age de 47 ans. Quatre annees auparavant, il etait l'un des plus jeunes ecrivains a recevoir le prix Nobel de litterature pour toute son oeuvre. L'enfance pauvre a Belcourt, la passion du football, le …
Le Clézio’s Spiritual Quest
Inbunden, 2012
988 kr
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Le Clézio’s Spiritual Quest is the first English language book to address the development of this Nobel Prize winner’s spiritual ideas and the first book in any language to focus on his abiding interest in the philosophy of Parmenides, Sufism, and Meso-American religion. Le Clézio’s Spiritual Quest …
