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A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio - A Study of Their Times and Works - (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) - Trans
A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) focuses equally on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio while minor writers are introduced in proportion to their importance and position in the cultural, historical,...- $108.15
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Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, and the Legacy of Mourning
This study examines the complexity of mourning in the works of two of the most widely read, yet rarely compared, contemporary authors in France, Albert Camus, born and raised in Algeria, and Marguerite Duras, originally from the former French Indochina. The book studies the...- $64.60
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Army of the Sky: Russian Military Aviation before the Great War, 1904-1914
Army of the Sky addresses the development of military aviation from 1904 to 1914 in order to explore the relationship of modernization and Russian Imperial officer culture. Utilizing archival material, army reports, the military and popular press, published tracts, and comparative literature, this book...- $101.10
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Boris Vian Transatlantic: Sources, Myths, and Dreams
Boris Vian lived during a period of redefinition in France, from the instability of the Thirties, through the German Occupation, then into the friendly if overwhelming presence of the American liberators. Vian resisted identification with the movements now associated with mid-century French literary and...- $55.95
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Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: The Quiet Evolution of French-Canadian Immigrants in New England
The inclusion of the ethnic voice in the examination of what has been termed American literature is a significant development, but what of the voice of the ethnic woman? This study seeks to answer that question and, at the same time, shed light on...- $64.95
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Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections
Claude McKay's Liberating Narrative: Russian and Anglophone Caribbean Literary Connections examines McKay's search for an original form of literary expression that started in Jamaica and continued in his subsequent travels abroad. Newly found research pertaining to his presence in several Russian periodicals, magazines, and...- $89.30
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Crossing Cultures- Cruzando culturas: Hispanic Authors and the Challenges They Overcame in the United States- Autores hispanos y sus desaf?os superado
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...- $96.40
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Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman
Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary production of the twentieth century: the connections between development...- $89.30
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Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l'oeil en France: enjeux et pouvoirs de 1470-1600
Le livre Errances et Cohérences dans les anamorphoses et les trompe-l'oeil en France: enjeux et pouvoirs de 1470-1600 propose d'étudier le phénomène artistique et intellectuel du trompe-l'oeil et de l'anamorphose à ses débuts en France entre la fin du xve et le xvie siècle.Author:...- $94.95
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Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women
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 melancol a by Mar a Teresa...- $86.95
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Facets of a Princess: Multiple Readings of Madame de la Fayette's «La Princesse de Clèves»
Facets of a Princess is a novel approach to Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves. Unlike previous critical studies, Facets does not limit its focus to a single critical approach, but instead examines the novel from political, historical, extreme feminist, and religious...- $72.35
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Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and François Mauriac
This book compares selected novels of Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) with those of François Mauriac (1885-1970), breaking new ground by revealing the strong thematic parallels and certain stylistic affinities in the authors' presentations of female characters and society. It focuses on the female characters in...- $51.95
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Female Writers' Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France- (1848-1871)
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...- $95.20
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George Sand's «Nouvelles»: Reflections, Perceptions and the Self
Reflections are frequently seen in literature. They often reveal the character's inner self to the character as well as the reader. Taking this revelation a step further, Dr. Blair analyzes George Sand's use of the reflective technique in the psychological development of the principal...- $56.95
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Historical Dramas of Alfred de Musset: Translated by David Sices
Andrea del Sarto and Lorenzaccio, Alfred de Musset's completed Renaissance historical tragedies, are two of the most remarkable representatives of their dramatic genre and period. Lorenzaccio, in particular, has had a powerful influence on twentieth-century French and European drama. These striking new translations by...- $39.95
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In Search of Self: Gender and Identity in Bioy Casares's Fantastic Fiction
This study focuses on the search to discover or recover a sense of self that provides a thematic link between Bioy Casares's diverse fantastic tales. Combining various theoretical approaches, it analyzes the author's portrayal of the patriarchal values that shape human identity and interpersonal...- $36.95
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Li Proverbes Au Conte de Bretaigne: Critical Edition and Study
This book focuses on didactic literature. First, the scholarship devoted to gnomic material is reviewed. Then relevant features of the scribal and authorial language are examined to find the approximate date of copy and the region of France wherein copyist and poet originated. The...- $75.05
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Lilies and Sesame: The Orient, Inversion, and Artistic Creation in «A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu»
The Orient in Proust's Recherche appears as a pervasive and dynamic network of images and references. It operates not so much as the static topos, the figure demonstrated by Said to predominate in nineteenth-century literature, but as the more dynamic and unwieldy figure of...- $58.95
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Literature as Introspection: Spain Confronts Trafalgar
In the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) the combined Spanish-French fleet suffered a disastrous defeat by the British. Literature as Introspection examines the frequent appearance of Trafalgar in Spanish literature throughout the nineteenth century. Initial denial of defeat and outrage became more sober reflection and...- $49.95
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Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende
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,...- $42.30
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Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/Stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano
The first collective study in English of the novels of Patrick Modiano (b. 1945), these essays approach the question of memory - and its interaction with history - in Modiano's works from several different theoretical and critical angles, all leading to an examination of...- $58.95
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Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi.Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell,...- $108.15
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Photographic Vision in Proust
Underscoring the active presence of photographically conceived imagery in Proustian discourse, this study draws upon the reproductive vision of both narrator and narrated as influenced by an invention whose prolific intervention clearly markts the creative psyche of an artistic society. With support from texts...- $35.95
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Prosper Mérimée: Plays on Hispanic Themes- Carvajal's Family, the Gilded Coach, the Opportunity, Inès Mendo
On a remote, fortified homestead in the Andes, a ferocious overlord attempts to rape his daughter and subsequently murders her. In a convent school in Havana, two adolescent girls fall in love with their priest, with fatal consequences. In Spain, a nobleman marries a...- $44.00
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Representational Strategies in «Les Misérables» and Selected Drawings by Victor Hugo: An Intermedial Comparison
This book considers the interplay between art and literature by comparing representation techniques in passages from Les Misérables with artistic techniques in selected drawings by Victor Hugo. In both his artistic and literary production, Hugo uses a composite representational strategy that blends verbal and...- $80.30
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Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre
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...- $96.40
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Silence in the Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite
This book explores how silences in Carmen Martín Gaite's novels affect narrative communication and the reader. Focusing on Entre visillos (1957), El cuarto de atrás (1978), and Nubosidad variable (1992), this study shows how silences inhere in Martín Gaite's narrative style, especially in the...- $89.50
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The Female Protagonist in the «Nouvelles» of Madame de Villedieu
This book offers a major assessment of representative seventeenth-century nouvelles in France. The study shows how Mme de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), a popular and prolific writer at the time of Louis XIV, modified the genre creating a new form, the nouvelle galante. Dr. Klein...- $64.95
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The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience
Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of...- $91.65
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The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire: Two Worlds, One Human Condition
The Poetry of Villon and Baudelaire is a comparative reading of François Villon's and Charles Baudelaire's poetry. Despite the intervening centuries, these works are analogous in a number of ways. More than a collection of verses, the Lais, the Testament, and Les Fleurs du...- $58.95
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The Theme of the Plague in Italian Letters
Several poetic and prose compositions in early Italian literature contain references to the bubonic plague and other illnesses that were used in the language both literally and metaphorically. The first detailed description of a plague epidemic, however, was written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the...- $129.30
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Tragic Lucidity: Discourse of Recuperation in Unamuno and Camus
Presenting the work of Miguel de Unamuno and Albert Camus as paradigmatic, the present study examines the significance and function of the tragic in a modern context, using a historical, socio-political approach. This approach permits the tragic to be seen as a product of...- $58.95
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Translation as Oneself: The Re-Creative Modernism in Stéphane Mallarmé's Late Sonnets, T. S. Eliot's Poems, and the Prose Poetry Since Charles
Translation encompasses the whole of humanness, and, as indicated by C. S. Peirce, translation is interpretation. It involves the cognitive process in its entirety, which is based on the unconscious life force shared globally through the species. Synonymous with untranslatability in the challenging ambiguity,...- $99.55
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Two Plays by Denis Diderot: The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family- Translated with an Introduction by Kiki Gounaridou and John Hellweg
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...- $92.85
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Valéry's Graveyard: Le Cimetière marin - Translated, Described, and Peopled
On the basis of the French text and a translation that is at once accurate and poetical, this book provides an introduction to the poem, Le Cimetière marin, and thereby to the complex intellectual world of Valéry. A valuable resource for scholars, Valéry's Graveyard...- $47.00
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Versatilidad Y Unidad Estética En Guillermo Valencia a la Luz del Simbolismo Francés
Con el fin de examinar la obra poética de Guillermo Valencia dentro del contexto de las tendencias literarias de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, es necesario comparar su estética con la de los motivos más importantes del simbolismo francés. El desarrollo...- $49.95
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Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence: Francophone Jewish Poetry of the Shoah, 1939-2008
In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active after the war in France, Belgium, Switzerland, or Quebec but who came originally...- $94.95
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Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion
Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people's perspectives on hunting in the context of the French Wars of Religion.Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Deborah N....- $105.80
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We Had Won the War: Translated with an Introduction by Barbara F. Ichiishi
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...- $61.10
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Writing Tangier
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;...- $104.60
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Zárate
The protagonist of the novel Zárate, Santos Zárate was a historical figure. A Venezuelan highwayman with a stronghold in the forest of Güere, he terrorized the valleys of Aragua for some twelve years. The action of the novel takes place in 1825, a few...- $97.80
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«Je, » «Il, » and «Vous»: Narrator, Protagonist, and Narratee from «Jean Santeuil» to «A La Recherche»
This study traces the development in Proust's portrayal of his narrator, major protagonist, and narratee from his early abandoned novel Jean Santeuil to A la recherche. It adopts a thematic approach and examines many of the published drafts from Proust's Cahiers, as well as...- $64.95
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