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Commemorative Acts - French Theatre And The Memory Of The Great War

by Susan Mccready

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 In the aftermath of the Great War, a remarkable wave of collective commemoration emerged, but the aesthetic diversity of this period has often been overshadowed by a singular focus on the combatant experience, primarily conveyed through fiction and memoir. This selective historical narrative has fostered a homogenized memory of the war, neglecting the rich array of cultural productions that also emerged alongside it. Commemorative Acts challenges these prevailing assumptions about the memory of the Great War and its literary expression in interwar France by spotlighting theatrical works that have largely been forgotten.The book uncovers how the dominance of first-person accounts of soldiers' experiences has subtly, yet powerfully, narrowed our understanding of what the memory of the Great War can encompass. It explores how drama, structurally at odds with the first-person perspective and defined by its simultaneous modes of expression and reception, has been lost to collective memory. By examining the unique capacity of the dramatic form to capture war trauma, Commemorative Acts offers insights that differ from those of other literary genres, highlighting the theatre's potential to provide a more expansive and nuanced understanding of interwar memorial culture.
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Beyond Building - Architecture And Gender In Nineteenth-Century France

by Heidi Brevik-Zender

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 Beyond Building examines architecture in nineteenth-century France through the lens of gender, making a case for the adoption of an expansive view of architecture and the inclusion of previously excluded makers and works.
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Naturalism'S Imaginary Museum, French Art, And The Eclectic Nineteenth Century

by Sara Pappas

~~70,23€~~ 63,21€ 10% OFF

 Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in the nineteenth century.
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Henry Céard - Idealiste Detrompe

by Ronald Frazee

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 Here for the first time is an authoritative account of the life and literary activity of a long-neglected writer of the French naturalist school. Its appearance now is especially timely in view of the recent revival of interest in Zola, Maupassant and Huysmans, and the publication of the complete Goncourt Journals. Céard''s written works were virtually neglected by his contemporaries as well as by most historians of the naturalist movement. However, his novels, short stories, and plays had good critical receptions, and in providing this study of the author, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of all his works, Mr. Frazee is performing a valuable service for students of literature.As an artist Céard was perhaps less powerful than Zola or Goncourt, but one appreciates, as Mr. Frazee has noted, "la prédominance de l''esprit d''analyse sur l''esprit d''imagination." An important contribution was his early experimental novel Une belle journée; this explored in depth a single day in a character''s life, and was the first of a number of such novels, which culminated in Joyce''s Ulysses. While attempting to give Céard his due as an artist Mr. Frazee, in seeking to discover the relations between this paradoxical personality and his work, has not hesitated to point out Céard''s personal failings. Céard was an intriguing blend of deceptive simplicity and surprising complexity, and he showed a pessimism and resignation, typical of the fin de siècle, which were evidence of the influence of Schopenhauer. Because secondary writers often give a better picture of their times than their better-known contemporaries, this biography, too, is able to shed new light on the last thirty years of the nineteenth century while providing an important guide for today''s scholars and the future investigators of an important area of French literature.
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Henry Céard - Idéaliste Détrompé

by Ronald Frazee

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Here for the first time is an authoritative account of the life and literary activity of a long-neglected writer of the French naturalist school. Its appearance now is especially timely in view of the recent revival of interest in Zola, Maupassant and Huysmans, and the publication of the complete Goncourt Journals. Céard''s written works were virtually neglected by his contemporaries as well as by most historians of the naturalist movement. However, his novels, short stories, and plays had good critical receptions, and in providing this study of the author, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of all his works, Mr. Frazee is performing a valuable service for students of literature.As an artist Céard was perhaps less powerful than Zola or Goncourt, but one appreciates, as Mr. Frazee has noted, "la prédominance de l''esprit d''analyse sur l''esprit d''imagination." An important contribution was his early experimental novel Une belle journée; this explored in depth a single day in a character''s life, and was the first of a number of such novels, which culminated in Joyce''s Ulysses. While attempting to give Céard his due as an artist Mr. Frazee, in seeking to discover the relations between this paradoxical personality and his work, has not hesitated to point out Céard''s personal failings. Céard was an intriguing blend of deceptive simplicity and surprising complexity, and he showed a pessimism and resignation, typical of the fin de siècle, which were evidence of the influence of Schopenhauer. Because secondary writers often give a better picture of their times than their better-known contemporaries, this biography, too, is able to shed new light on the last thirty years of the nineteenth century while providing an important guide for today''s scholars and the future investigators of an important area of French literature.
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La Chronique De Robert De Clari - Etude De La Langue Et Du Style

by Peter F. Dembowski

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 Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in French, neither translated from Latin nor resulting from "prosification" of verse-compositions.Professor Dembrowski''s study is a close analysis of language and style, revealing Robert de Clari''s ability in the narration of short anecdotes and in the reproduction of dialogue. University of Toronto Romance Series, Number 6.
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Naturalisme Pas Mort - Lettres Inédites De Paul Alexis À Emile Zola, 1871-1900

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 Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes, and a friend of Emile Zola. This volume brings together for the first time the 229 letters still in existence from him to Zola.
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La Chronique De Robert De Clari - Etude De La Langue Et Du Style

by Peter F. Dembowski

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he took part. This is an important work in the study of the development of the French language, because it is one of the first original prose texts in French, neither translated from Latin nor resulting from "prosification" of verse-compositions.Professor Dembrowski''s study is a close analysis of language and style, revealing Robert de Clari''s ability in the narration of short anecdotes and in the reproduction of dialogue. University of Toronto Romance Series, Number 6.
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Naturalisme Pas Mort - Lettres Inédites De Paul Alexis À Emile Zola, 1871-1900

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 Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes, and a friend of Emile Zola. This volume brings together for the first time the 229 letters still in existence from him to Zola.
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Perfume On The Page In Nineteenth-Century France

by Cheryl Krueger

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 Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.
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Perfume On The Page In Nineteenth-Century France

by Cheryl Krueger

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 Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.
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Perfume On The Page In Nineteenth-Century France

by Cheryl Krueger

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 Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.
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Unselfing - Global French Literature At The Limits Of Consciousness

by Michaela Hulstyn

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 Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.
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Unselfing - Global French Literature At The Limits Of Consciousness

by Michaela Hulstyn

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 Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.
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Victims Of The Book - Reading And Masculinity In Fin-De-Siècle France

by Francois Proulx

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 Victims of the Book shows how the adolescent male reader became a subject of grave social concern in late-nineteenth-century France and how a new generation of writers later reworked the novel to subvert cultural norms about masculinity.
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Victims Of The Book - Reading And Masculinity In Fin-De-Siècle France

by Francois Proulx

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 Victims of the Book shows how the adolescent male reader became a subject of grave social concern in late-nineteenth-century France and how a new generation of writers later reworked the novel to subvert cultural norms about masculinity.
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Angelic Echoes - Hervé Guibert And Company

by Ralph Sarkonak

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 In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "À l''ami qui ne m''a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic for Le Monde from 1977-1985, Guibert was also the co-author (with Patrice Chéreau) of a film script, L''Homme Blessé, which won a César in 1984, and author of more than twenty-five books, eight of which have been translated into English.In this vibrant and unusual study, Ralph Sarkonak examines many intriguing aspects of Guibert''s life and production: the connection between his books and his photography, his complex relationship with Roland Barthes and with his friend and mentor Michel Foucault (relationships that were at once literary, intellectual, and personal in each case); the ties between his writing and that of his contemporaries, including Renaud Camus, France''s most prolific gay writer; and his development of an AIDS aesthetic. Using close textual analysis, Sarkonak tracks the convolutions of Guibert''s particular form of life-writing, in which fact and fiction are woven into a corpus that evolves from and revolves around his preoccupations, obsessions, and relationships, including his problematic relationship with his own body, both before and after his HIV-positive diagnosis.Guibert''s work is a brilliant example of the emphasis on disclosure that marks recent queer writing - in contrast to the denial and cryptic allusion that characterized much of the work by gay writers of previous generations. Yet, as Sarkonak concludes, Guibert treats the notions of falsehood and truth with a postmodern hand: as overlapping constructs rather than mutually exclusive ones - or, to use Foucault''s expression, as "games with truth."
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Marivaux

by E. J. H. Greene

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 The last thirty years have seen a renewed interest in the novels, plays, and essays of Marivaux. Each year more of his work is made available to the public in partial editions. More and better studies have appeared, superseding the old and, in the last thirty years, almost all of his plays have been performed. Today no corder of his work remains unexplored: our knowledge of his life, which had been until recently a tissue of fancy and anecdote, has been enhanced by the discovery of a few facts.This critical study of the entire body of Marviaux''s writings sets out to tell whether this attention represents a securely established place for Marivaux among the great French writers, or simply a vogue. It consists of a careful analysis of the individual works, in chronological order rather than in systematic groups, as is customary, showing the development of Marivaux''s thinking, and the intimate relationship among the plays, novels, and essays of any given period. A history of the reception of the works, by scholars and critics from Marivaux''s time to the present, presents succinctly the historical perspective through which the modern reader may understand the long indifference to Marivaux in France and his contemporary "discovery." Professor Greene''s work will be of great value to all students of the eighteenth century in France. Because of his lively interest in the theatre arts it will also be valuable for directors planning to produce the plays of Marivaux.
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Paul Claudel'S 'Le Soulier De Satin' - A Stylistic, Structuralist, And Psychoanalytic Interpretation

by Joan S. Freilich

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 Claudel''s most important work, Le Soulier de satin, has confused and puzzled readers since it first appeared. Joan S. Freilich''s intensive examination of Claudel''s imagery combined stylistic , structuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses. These are new methods that have been developed over the past two decades and are based on an examination of the text from the reader''s point of view. This is a radical break with conventional literary studies which examine literature biographically or comparatively, i.e., focusing on the relationship of the text to other works written by the same or different authors, to the author''s life and historical setting, or to various linguistic norms.Recent stylistic studies have as their point of departure the reader''s perception of certain elements of style as unpredictable, and thus ''marked,'' in an otherwise unmarked context; such studies seek to determine which of these ''stylistic devices'' are present within a given text and what their effect is on the reader''s response to the work.Structuralist analyses involve the identification and description of the basic system of concepts around which the literary text is constructed. This fundamental system, or structure, is the source of the reader''s sense that the text is a coherent whole, but it is itself an abstraction and can be perceived only through one or more of the variants through which it is actualized in the text.Finally, the psychoanalytic interpretation of a literary work attempts to elucidate the most fundamental effective concepts conveyed through the text, concepts which evoke corresponding emotional responses in the reader and which, although often unrecognized, are thus responsible for much of his interest in, and appreciation of, the work.Stylistic and structuralist methods have been used together in recent years, but this study of the Soulier de satin represents the first time that psychoanalytic interpretation has been included as part of a stylistic and structuralist analysis in which the focus throughout is on the relationship of the text to the reader and the point of departure is the reader''s response to the work. Furthermore, most Claudelian criticism has been vague and general in nature but this work is specific and represents an unusual and unique contribution.
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Marivaux

by E. J. H. Greene

49,01€ + 10% CARD

 This critical study of the entire body of Marviaux's writings consists of a careful analysis of the individual works, in chronological order, showing the development of Marivaux's thinking, and the intimate relationship among the plays, novels, and essays of any given period.
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Paul Claudel'S 'Le Soulier De Satin' - A Stylistic, Structuralist, And Psychoanalytic Interpretation

by Joan S. Freilich

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Claudel's most important work, Le Soulier de satin, has confused and puzzled readers since it first appeared. Joan S. Freilich's intensive examination of Claudel's imagery combined stylistic , structuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses.
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Writing By Ear - Clarice Lispector And The Aural Novel

by Marilia Librandi

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 Writing by Ear examines the explicit articulation of listening-in-writing found in the work of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. The terms â€œwriting by ear,â€ the â€œaural novel,â€ and â€œechopoeticsâ€ rethink fiction as a poetics of listening to the world.
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Writing By Ear - Clarice Lispector And The Aural Novel

by Marilia Librandi

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 Writing by Ear examines the explicit articulation of listening-in-writing found in the work of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. The terms â€œwriting by ear,â€ the â€œaural novel,â€ and â€œechopoeticsâ€ rethink fiction as a poetics of listening to the world.
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Objects Observed - The Poetry Of Things In Twentieth-Century France And America

by John C. Stout

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 Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century.
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