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  • All Puns Intended

    The Verbal Creation of Jean-Pierre Brisset

    by Walter Redfern ...
    "The 19th century in France spawned numerous 'fous litteraires, one of them being Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919). An individualist among individualists, he dismantled the existing French tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose purposes, which were to explain afresh the development of human beings (from frogs) and of their language (from croaks). Continuous and ubiquitous punning was a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    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

    $12.99 USD

  • Collected Poems and Other Verse

    by E.H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore, Stéphane Mallarmé ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. In both form and content, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de pensée

    by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, George Steiner ...
    « Si nos processus de pensée étaient moins pressants, moins crus, moins hypnotiques, nos déceptions constantes, la masse grise de la nausée nichée au coeur de l'être, nous désempareraient moins. Les effondrements mentaux, les fuites pathologiques dans l'irréalité, l'inertie du cerveau malade peuvent, au fond, être une tactique contre la déception, contre l'acide de l'espoir frustré. Les ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

    A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Susan Spitzer ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • 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

    $11.59 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Symbolism

    by Charles Chadwick ...
    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement. After an introduction to the defining ideas of the movement, it explores five key Symbolist writers: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Valéry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of Symbolism across Europe.This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • 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

    $35.29 USD

  • Poetics of the Antilles

    Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant

    by Jean Khalfa ...
    Series Book 124 - Modern French Identities
    The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Understanding French poetry : Charles Baudelaire

    Analysis of the most important poems

    by Gloria Lauzanne ...
    Analysis in English of the most important poems of Charles Baudelaire in The evil flowers. ... Read more

    $4.75 USD