This book reassess Taine as the very model of the European intellectual int he second half of the nineteenth century. The author draws on unpublished manuscripts and letters to reveal a self-disguised
In this fresh exploration of eighteenth-century French writing, John Leigh celebrates the ideas and hopes that animated its central figures and examines the extent to which authors—and their readers—s
In this book Amy Wygant reads Racine’s Phedre (1677) through an analysis of its seventeenth-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construc
Teleost (bony) fishes are found in all types of aquatic environment and are extremely diverse behaviorally. Their evolutionary success is partly due to their striking behavioral plasticity; as such t
The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably by French writers. French women have contributed enormously to world literature for centuries, but only a few have been
This is the first full-length study to cover the complete texts of Herve Guibert (1955–1991), offering a thorough documentation of his literary output. The book is guided by Guibert’s relation to the
Nomadic Voices of Exile examines the effects of postmodern sentiment on perceptions of feminine identity since the end of the French-colonial era. The authors discussed here, both those who reside in
Small Worlds examines the minimalist trend in French writing, from the early 1980s to the present. Warren Motte first considers the practice of minimalism in other media, such as the plastic arts and
Writing French Algeria is a groundbreaking study of the European literary discourse on French Algeria between the conquest of 1830 and the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. For the first time in E
How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does
This book is about four writers—Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine—whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France.
This collection of Stephane Mallarme’s letters is an indispensable companion to the ‘complete’ correspondence published by Gallimard in eleven volumes (1959-85). The collection comprises 143 letters,
This book is about four writers?Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine?whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their writin
How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does
According to Rogers, the nineteenth century was incapable of managing the feminine question and preferred to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transfo
This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aesthetici
