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Baudelaire, Sartre and Camus
This book presents a brief introduction to each writer, centring on a particular work (Les Fleurs du mal, Les Mains sales, La peste) and imediately followed by a commentary on…
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Essays in Aesthetics
Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette’s work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one…
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Essays in Aesthetics
Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette’s work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one…
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France from 1851 to the Present
This study is a cultural history of France from a period of dominant universalism in the mid-19th Century, to the post-modern era, when the “French exception” had entered a period…
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Parallel to Life
This book celebrates the life of the writer, its passions, its rewards and of course its conflicts and pain. One is tempted to call it a Journal, but there are…
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Portrayals of Revolution
How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval? Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolution—political…
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Supernatural Proust
A monumental exploration of memory, love, sexuality, social relations, and the creative process, Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu builds a complex world that is rich in religious…
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The French Riviera
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers is a reader’s journey along the fabled coast which has provided the inspiration and setting for some of the greatest literature of…
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