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  • Translation and the Arts in Modern France

    by Sonya Stephens, Marshall C. Olds, Heather Williams, L. Cassandra Hamrick, Emma Wilson, Michael John Tilby, Barbara Wright, Wendelin Guentner, Robert D. Lethbridge, Juliana Starr0, Janet L. Beizer1, Mary Ann Caws2, Clive Scott3, Catherine Bernard4 ...
    Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    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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  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

    by Leslie Hill ...
    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

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  • Feminizing the Fetish

    Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France

    by Emily Apter ...
    Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of ... Read more

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  • Comics in French

    The European Bande Dessinée in Context

    by Laurence Grove ...
    Series Book 14 - Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
    Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Voice Lessons

    French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

    by Katherine Bergeron ...
    Series series New Cultural History of Music
    Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. ... Read more

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  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

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  • Proust at the Movies

    by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Proust

    Edited by Richard Bales ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such ... Read more

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  • Never Say I

    Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

    by Michael Lucey, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers’ production of a first-person voice in which matters related to same-sex sexuality ... Read more

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  • Adapting Nineteenth-Century France

    Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print

    by Kate Griffiths, Andrew Watts ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    Adapting Nineteenth-Century France uses the output of six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to push for a re-conceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation. The works of Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant and Verne reveal themselves not as originals to be defended from adapting hands, but fashioned from the adapted voices of a host of earlier ... Read more

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  • Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

    by Cormac Newark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la ... Read more

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