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Rule of Metaphor
Multi-disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language
Av Paul Ricouer
Häftad, 1981
457 kr
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Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discusses significant viewpoints on metaphor held by writers in various disciplines. These include linguistics and semantics, the philosophy of …
Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama
Inbunden, 1998
1027 kr
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Esteemed in France as the leading writer of Romantic dramas, Victor Hugo created a body of work that revolutionized the dramatic canon of his time. In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays.This valuable synthesis offers a history, plot …
Play and the Picaresque
Lazarillo De Tormes, Libro De Manuel and Match Ball
Inbunden, 1999
930 kr
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This study takes a fresh look at the picaresque genre as seen in three important contemporary Latin American novels, Cortázar's Libro de Manuel, Skármeta's Match Ball, and the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes. Gordana Yovanovich considers the genre in relation to the concept of play and …
French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England
Häftad, 1994
607 kr
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The French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French, like Latin, was the language of the educated; in the courts of England, and for nobles, clerics, …
Minority Literatures and Modernism
Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990
Häftad, 2000
591 kr
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A quiet renaissance has been unfolding in certain parts of Europe - a renaissance of literature written in minority languages. In this book, William Calin explores the renaissance through an examination of twentieth-century works in Scots, Breton, and Occitan minority languages flourishing inside …
Writing in the Stars
A Jungian Reading of the Poetry of Octavio Paz
Inbunden, 2007
785 kr
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Born in Mexico City in 1914, writer, poet, and diplomat Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, eight years before his death in 1998. The Writing in the Stars explores Paz's life and ideas by establishing a dialogue between the structure and recurring images of his major poems and …
Cervantes' Epic Novel
Empire, Religion, and the Dream Life of Heroes in Persiles
Inbunden, 2009
979 kr
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Miguel de Cervantes conceived his final work, The Labours of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story (1617), as a great prose epic that would accomplish for its age what Homer and Virgil had done for theirs. And yet, by the eighteenth century Don Quixote had eclipsed Persiles in the favour of …
Embodying Pessoa
Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality
Inbunden, 2007
1027 kr
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The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not …
Transnational Cervantes
Häftad, 2014
477 kr
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This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. …
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb
E-bok, 2016
1071 kr
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Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of …
Postcolonial Counterpoint
Orientalism, France, and the Maghreb
E-bok, 2016
1106 kr
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Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of …
Transnational Cervantes
E-bok, 2014
544 kr
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This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. …
Transnational Cervantes
E-bok, 2014
581 kr
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This ambitious work aims to utterly change the way Don Quixote and Cervantes' other works are read, particularly the posthumous The Trial of Persiles and Sigismunda. William Childers sets out to free Cervantes' work from its context within the histories of the European national literatures. …
Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture
E-bok, 1995
619 kr
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The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism, …
On the Defensive
Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies
E-bok, 2015
806 kr
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On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart …
On the Defensive
Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies
E-bok, 2015
806 kr
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On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives, particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart …
Embodying Pessoa
Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality
E-bok, 2007
1069 kr
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The multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is distinguished by having been written and published under more than seventy different names. These were not mere pseudonyms, but what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' fully realized identities possessed not …
Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
An Introduction to Narrative Structures
Häftad, 1969
445 kr
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In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the …
Emery Bigot
Seventeenth-Century French Humanist
Häftad, 1970
366 kr
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Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of literary Europe; among his correspondents, acquaintances, and friends were men of the stature of Jean Chapelain, Nicolaus Heinsius, Charles du Cange, …
Theatre in French Canada
Laying the Foundations 1606-1867
Häftad, 1984
477 kr
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It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de …
Jacques Chessex
Calvinism and the Text
Av David Bond
E-bok, 1994
375 kr
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Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside …
Science and the Human Comedy
Natural Philosophy in French Literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis
E-bok, 1976
450 kr
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New scientific theories, methods, and objectives exert subtle and often unnoticed influences on literary creation. The developments of the attitudes and aspirations of French scientists between the Renaissance and the Revolution and the impact of these new outlooks on French literature form the …
Naturalisme Pas Mort
Lettres inédites De Paul Alexis à Emile Zola, 1871-1900
Av B. H. Bakker
E-bok, 1971
882 kr
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Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes, and a friend of Emile Zola. This volume brings together for the first time the 229 letters still in existence from him to Zola. Written over a period of thirty years, from the beginning of Rougon-Macquart to the Dreyfus …
Legendary Sources of Flaubert's Saint Julien
E-bok, 1977
418 kr
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The sources for La LÉgende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers …
Edgar Allan Poe
Sa Vie Et Ses Ouvrages
Av Charles Baudelaire, W.T. Bandy
E-bok, 1973
312 kr
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The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire’s first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as …
Jacques Chessex
Calvinism and the Text
Av David Bond
E-bok, 1994
450 kr
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Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside …
Crispin Ier
La Vie Et L'œuvre De Raymond Poisson Comédien-poète Du XVIIe Siècle
E-bok, 1972
731 kr
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Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française during the first five years of its existence. He popularized one of the French stage's best-loved stock characters, the impudent servant Crispin, …
La Chronique De Robert De Clari
Etude De La Langue Et Du Style
E-bok, 1963
431 kr
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Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in …
Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic
An Introduction to Narrative Structures
E-bok, 1969
562 kr
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In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of language: the modern linguistic analyzes language in a search for the minimal units of sound and form, phoneme and morpheme, and determines the …
Emery Bigot
Seventeenth-Century French Humanist
E-bok, 1970
450 kr
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Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of literary Europe; among his correspondents, acquaintances, and friends were men of the stature of Jean Chapelain, Nicolaus Heinsius, Charles du Cange, …
