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  • Charles Baudelaire's Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)

    An Overview with Newly Translated Poems

    by Dieter Hoffmann ...
    Charles Baudelaire's poetic flower garden exudes many different fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to "catch a glimpse of paradise". The present book offers an exemplary overview of Baudelaire's poetic flowers, combined with commentaries based on Baudelaire's own poetological and philosophical ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Paul Verlaine in the Mirror of his Poems

    A Look at the Life and Work of the Poet - With English Adaptations by Ilona Lay

    by Dieter Hoffmann ...
    Based on selected poems by Paul Verlaine, this booklet gives an overview of important aspects of the poet's life and work. Each chapter begins with an adaptation of a poem by Ilona Lay. On this basis, central elements of Verlaine's poetology and stages of his life reflected in his poetry are discussed. ... Read more

    $3.77 USD

  • Jacques Prévert – the Poet of Everyday Life

    A Portrait Based on Selected Poems

    by Dieter Hoffmann ...
    Jacques Prévert is a poetic icon in France today, his poems are part of the school curriculum. Given the poet's deliberate distance from high culture and notably from traditional school education, this is not devoid of irony. The present eBook sketches a portrait of the poet in five chapters. In each chapter, English adaptations of selected works by Prévert serve as an introduction to individual ... Read more

    $3.77 USD

  • Italian Poetry 1885 – 1950

    Giosuè Carducci – Giovanni Pascoli – Ada Negri – Eugenio Montale – Giuseppe Ungaretti – Salvatore Quasimodo – Mario Luzi – Antonia Pozzi – Cesare Pavese – Elsa Morante

    by Dieter Hoffmann ...
    In the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Italian poetry experienced an extraordinary heyday. In ten chapters, the present volume provides exemplary insights into this period. English adaptations of selected poems are followed by literary-historical classifications and interpretations against the background of the life and work of the poets concerned. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences

    Edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass ... Read more

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  • A History of Silence

    From the Renaissance to the Present Day

    by Alain Corbin ...
    Translated by Jean Birrell ...
    Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.It characterizes our most intimate and sacred spaces, from private bedrooms to grand cathedrals – those vast reservoirs of silence. Philosophers and novelists have long sought solitude and inspiration in mountains and ... Read more

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  • Paul Verlaine

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The works of great artists are silent books of eternal truths. And thus it is indelibly written in the face of Balzac, as Rodin has graven it, that the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful. He has shown that great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself. A ... Read more

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  • Charles Baudelaire

    A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural history of the late nineteenth-century Paris, examined ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Alfred Jarry

    by Jill Fell ...
    Series Book 30 - Critical Lives
    Alfred Jarry’s creation of the monster-tyrant Ubu was a watershed in theatre history: his play Ubu Roi (whose origins lie in his mercilessly ridiculed former schoolmaster) on the Paris stage in December 1896 brought him instant notoriety. This legendary event is set at the heart of Alfred Jarry, balanced with other achievements that this multi-talented and influential writer crammed into his short ... Read more

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  • Proust Among the Stars

    How To Read Him; Why Read Him?

    by Malcolm Bowie ...
    The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably.‘Read this excellent book’ Stuart Jeffries, Guardian‘Very refreshing… a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction’ Gabriel ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire

    Edited by Rosemary Lloyd ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on ... Read more

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  • Stéphane Mallarmé

    by Roger Pearson ...
    Series Book 28 - Critical Lives
    At the age of fifty Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98) spoke of his published work as ‘very precise reference points on my mind’s journey’. In Stéphane Mallarmé, Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. ‘A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet’, he declared at the age ... Read more

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