Romanticism and After in France/le Romantisme et Apres en France – serie
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Writing the Great War / Comment écrire la Grande Guerre?
Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poétiques francophones et anglophones
Häftad, 2017
801 kr
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For France the First World War, or Great War, was a war of national self-defence, but for Britain it was not. Does that mean that French literary treatments of this unimaginably destructive war were very different from British ones? Not necessarily – but much can be learned from considering both …
L’Anti-Salomé
Représentations de la féminité bienveillante au temps de la Décadence (1850–1910)
Häftad, 2020
952 kr
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En France comme en Grande-Bretagne, la fin du XIXe siècle semble hantée par les formes destructrices ou malveillantes de la féminité, que la figure de Salomé incarne d’une manière omniprésente et contradictoire. La danseuse fatale ne peut pourtant se comprendre que comme l’image inversée d’une …
Still Loitering
Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers
Av Valentina Gosetti, Alistair Rolls
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers’s passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great ‘humanity and humility’, one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers’s life …
Against the Grain
The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature
Häftad, 2021
656 kr
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Is it really a man’s world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine privilege. This book focuses on the representation of masculinity as a literary concept in Decadent …
Art of Theatre
Word, Image and Performance in France and Belgium, c. 1830–1910
Av Claire Moran
Häftad, 2013
1230 kr
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This collection of essays explores the relationship between art, literature and the stage in France and Belgium in the period 1830-1910. It is the first book to bring together scholarship on this neglected area of study and provides unique insights into current research within this rich …
Chateaubriand
The Paradox of Change
Häftad, 2014
747 kr
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This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective …
Local Colour
A Travelling Concept
Häftad, 2009
817 kr
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Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its ‘domestication’ only further highlights the need for a clarifying study of this concept, which has come to be crucial in aesthetic debates. From the …
Blanchot Romantique
A Collection of Essays
Häftad, 2010
1050 kr
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The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact. Arising from a conference …
Parisian Intersections
Baudelaire’s Legacy to Composers
Av Helen Abbott, Patrick McGuinness
Häftad, 2012
631 kr
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The period from the 1850s to the 1890s in Paris marked a key turning point for poets and composers, as they grappled with the new ways in which poetry and music could intersect. Under the particular conditions of the time and place, both art forms underwent significant developments which challenged …
Mallarmé’s Ideas in Language
Av Heather Williams, Lia N. R. C. Raitt
Häftad, 2004
543 kr
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Mallarmé’s impact has been too great to remain within the confines of French-language culture, or indeed literary studies. While much of the first century of Mallarmé’s posthumous glory has been spent looking at his ideas on language as a key to his difficult œuvre, something far more fundamental …
