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Inspired by the work of their colleague David Gascoigne, a group of scholars from the UK and France examine in this book the narrative strategies of some of the most interesting and important French writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Stretching...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Esta obra propone una reflexión interdisciplinar sobre los márgenes entre Naturaleza y Cultura. Su objetivo es contribuir al conocimiento de la condición humana en su relación con lo animal y lo vegetal. Partiendo de la premisa de que el ser humano del nuevo milenio –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-07-08
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A differenza di altri concetti su cui il ruolo svolto dall’Illuminismo è universalmente noto, beneficenza è un termine che appare indissolubilmente legato all’Ottocento, ed a una visione paternalista ed ipocrita dei rapporti sociali. Pochi conoscono le avventure...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-07-08
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As theoretical positions and as affective experiences, the twin currents of contrition – guilt and shame – permeate literary discourse and figure prominently in discussions of ethics, history, sexuality and social hierarchy. This collection of essays, on French and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-27
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To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' is more likely to denote hidden intentions, unspoken desires. Several...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-05-26
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Sobrepasar los límites de lo real y de la forma es lo propio del género fantástico. A través de él, el lenguaje humano trasciende la pura referencialidad y entra en otro mundo con el fin de intentar dotar de significado a sus percepciones más inescrutables. En este...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring impact....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any of the awareness of the bleakness of the human condition. Undoubtedly one of the most...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-01-14
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Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550-1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. Although existing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-01-13
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Voices from the Asylum is a fascinating investigation of the lives of four women incarcerated in French psychiatric hospitals in the second half of the nineteenth century. The renowned sculptor (and mistress of Rodin) Camille Claudel, the musician Hersilie Rouy, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-21
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The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations.
The first great works of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-22
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The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations.
The first great works of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-22
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The turn of the millennium in France coincided with a number of tangible crises and apocalyptic discourses, and with the growth of the mass media and global market, further generating and manipulating crisis. In this original, wide-ranging but closely analytical study,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-10-08
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Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-06-18
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Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by taking as its case study the paradigmatic generic hybrid of the twentieth century, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. At once philosophical--in that it presents claims, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-05-26
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Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast?
La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-01-29
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What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-01-15
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Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chrétien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-01-15
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of Flaubert's least well-known masterpiece, the final version of his Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) which, thanks to Foucault, has the reputation of being an arcane and erudite 'fantastic library' or, thanks to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-13
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Whilst French romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have long enjoyed a privileged place in the literary history of France, romances from the later middle ages have been largely neglected by modern scholars, despite their central role in the chivalric culture...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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