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  • Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem

    by Seth Whidden ...
    Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors that helped shape the nascent modernity in Baudelaire's poetic prose are the poems' themes, forms, linguistic qualities, and modes ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Velocipedomania

    A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

    by Corry Cropper, Seth Whidden ...
    When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms.Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850–1880

    by Seth Whidden ...
    By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, while the ever-changing political contexts occasioned by the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 brought about differing degrees of political, social, and literary censure and pressure. Seth Whidden examines crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

    Several Authors, One Pen

    Edited by Seth Whidden ...
    Contributing to the current lively discussion of collaboration in French letters, this collection raises fundamental questions about the limits and definition of authorship in the context of the nineteenth century's explosion of collaborative ventures. While the model of the stable single author that prevailed during the Romantic period dominates the beginning of the century, the authority of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Arthur Rimbaud

    by Seth Whidden ...
    Series Book 83 - Critical Lives
    Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud’s poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and exploration.Almost all of Rimbaud’s poems were written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Against the backdrop of the crumbling Second Empire ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • The Proustian Fabric

    Associations of Memory

    by Christie McDonald ...
    The association of ideas became the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis, informed the nascent semiology of Saussure, and characterized the literary works of Sterne, Joyce, Woolf, and especially Marcel Proust. The author of Remembrance of Things Past, acutely aware of how philosophical, historical, and narrative writing intersected, gave years of thinking and planning to his multivolume ... Read more

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  • Robert Antelme

    Humanity, Community, Testimony

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    "Best known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this first study in any language to be devoted to Antelme's work, Martin Crowley reveals the author's vital yet insufficiently recognized influence on recent thought in France and elsewhere about such questions as the nature of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • George Sand and Autobiography

    by J.A. Hiddleston ...
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  • French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War

    by Nicholas White ...
    "One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Naquet of 1884. French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War tracks the part played by novels in this conflict between the secular rights of ... Read more

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  • The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    Series Book 3 - The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series
    In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace, are the starting point for a meditation on the roles of writer and reader, and what kind of vision is required of them to explore and depict the world. Homer is the archetype of the writer who can see ... Read more

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  • Corpus

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Richard A. Rand ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork.Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its ... Read more

    $27.99 USD