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Giambatista Viko; Ou, Le Viol Du Discours Africain - An Mla Text Edition

by Georges Ngal

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 Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.
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Popular Literature From Nineteenth-Century France - French Text

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 The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as tableaux de Paris and illustrated physiologies examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flâneur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While authors such as Paul de Kock are little known today, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.
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Prodiges D’Amour - Contes De Fées Au Féminin

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 Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From the late seventeenth century through the Revolution, the conteuses published rich, complex tales that were popular in literary salons and elite courtly settings.
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La Dame À La Louve - An Mla Text Edition

by Renee Vivien

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 Although Renée Vivien led a life of wealth and privilege in belle epoque Paris, she often felt like an outsider because she was attracted to other women. Financially secure, she wrote books to suit her own taste rather than that of the literary market. La dame à la louve, from 1904, shows her at the height of her powers.These fierce, surprising stories challenge moral hypocrisy and normative views about gender, beginning with the title work, which offers a coded representation of same-sex love in the seemingly inexplicable commitment between a woman and her canine companion. The following stories feature a reimagined fairy tale in which Prince Charming turns out to be a young woman, a western adventure whose narrator goes mad with thirst, and other unconventional narratives that range across time and space.
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Résistance - Contes De La Seconde Guerre Mondiale En France

by Edith Thomas

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 Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Ã‰dith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first published under the title Contes d'Auxois by an underground press in 1943, were written to oppose Vichy-Nazi propaganda.
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Giambatista Viko; Or, The Rape Of African Discourse - An Mla Translation

by Georges Ngal

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 Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.
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Miracles Of Love - French Fairy Tales By Women

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 Before children's stories came to exemplify the French fairy tale, early modern audiences read the works of women writers known as conteuses. From the late seventeenth century through the Revolution, the conteuses published rich, complex tales that were popular in literary salons and elite courtly settings.
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Life And Deeds Of The Famous Gentleman Don Catrin De La Fachenda

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Life And Deeds Of The Famous Gentleman Don Catrin De La Fachenda - An Mla Translation

by Jose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi

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 Don CatrÃn de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer JosÃ© JoaquÃn FernÃ¡ndez de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel.
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Woman With The Wolf - An Mla Translation

by Renee Vivien

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 An English translation of short stories by RenÃ©e Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender roles, and represents same-sex love and desire. Stories feature unreliable narrators and include rewritten fairy tales and ancient myths, adventure stories in the American West and at sea, and others.
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Resistance - Stories From World War Ii France

by Edith Thomas

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 Based on real events of the French Resistance during World War II, Ã‰dith Thomas's stories explore how ordinary people respond to the extraordinary conditions of political occupation. The stories, first published under the title Contes d'Auxois by an underground press in 1943, were written to oppose Vichy-Nazi propaganda.
Selected Poetry And Prose Of Évariste Parny - In English Translation, With French Text

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 Praised by Voltaire and admired by Pushkin, Evariste Parny (1753-1814) became a member of the Academie Francaise. Despite this, some of his poetry was banned after his death. This edition includes poems from the Poesies erotiques and Elegies; the Chansons madecasses; five of his published letters; the narrative poem "Le Voyage de Celine"; and selections from his later poetry.
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&Quote;Silent Souls&Quote; And Other Stories - An Mla Translation

by Caterina Albert

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 In the tradition of George Eliot, George Sand, and other controversial women authors, Caterina Albert i ParadÃs assumed a man's name, VÃctor CatalÃ . She wrote unflinching narratives, mostly in Catalan, of the people and life around her, producing a body of work still enlisted today to help the Catalan language resist the dominance of Peninsular Spanish.
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Sina - A Novel By The Author Of Heidi

by Johanna Spyri

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 An English translation of the German-Language novel by Johanna Spyri (1827-1901). The coming-of-age story of a Swiss girl who leaves her village to attend medical school. Portrays urban and rural life, education, gender discrimination, religion, and family values. Believed to be a sequel to the novel Heidi.
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Popular Literature From Nineteenth-Century France - English Translation

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 The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flÃ¢neur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While the names of authors are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.
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Monsieur Venus - A Materialist Novel

by Rachilde

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 In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamoured of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.
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Ourika - An English Translation

by Claire De Duras

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 Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.
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Don Quixote - A Dramatic Adaptation

by Mikhaíl Bulgákov

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 When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakovâ€™s stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule.The volumeâ€™s introduction provides background for Bulgakovâ€™s adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth century Spanish work.
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A Century Of Queer Korean Fiction

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 Beginning with contemporary works of fiction and reaching back through the last century, this collection places expressions of queerness in historical and cultural context. The book explores the sometimes problematic norms found in the stories and also considers the potential these texts hold for destabilizing binaries of sex and gender.
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Sphinx - A Neo-Gothic Novel From Brazil

by Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto

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 A work of supernatural fantasy that questions gender divisions. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the eraâ€™s taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelleyâ€™s Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.
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Esfinge - Um Romance Neo-Gotico Do Brasil

by Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto, Jess Nevins e M. Elizabeth Ginway

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 A work of supernatural fantasy that questions gender divisions. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the era's taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.
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Life And Deeds Of The Famous Gentleman Don Catrin De La Fachenda - An Mla Translation

by Jose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi

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 Don CatrÃn de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer JosÃ© JoaquÃn FernÃ¡ndez de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel.
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The Woman With The Wolf

by Renee Vivien

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 An English translation of short stories by RenÃ©e Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender roles, and represents same-sex love and desire. Stories feature unreliable narrators and include rewritten fairy tales and ancient myths, adventure stories in the American West and at sea, and others.
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The Life Of Saint Eufrosine

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 Includes Old French text and English translation of the life of Saint Eufrosine, who dressed as a man to become a monk in a monastery. Mixing hagiography, romance, epic, and theology, this work from around 1200 CE raises questions about sexuality and identity, family relationships, and spiritual and secular values.
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Popular Literature From Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation

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 The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flÃ¢neur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While the names of authors are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.
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