Wimsatt has revised his 1982 edition of Middle French poems found in the "Penn" manuscript made in England at the end of the fourteenth century. while most of the poems are not attributed, several are
Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century, Poetry, Knowledge, and Community examines the role of poetry in French culture in transmitting and shaping knowledge. The v
Countering the conventional image of the deliberately obscure "ivory-tower poet," Frameworks for Mallarme presents Stephane Mallarme as a journalist and critic who was actively engaged with the socioc
Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx. It argues for the r
Poetry. Translated from the French by Elena Rivera. SECRET OF BREATH is a suite for two voices--a voice from outside and a voice from inside, a voice of the living and a voice of the dying--in a race
Presents an account of the life of prodigy poet Arthur Rimbaud, discusses how his short-lived writing career influenced modern performers, offers insight into his abandonment of writing, and describes
In 1908 a small volume of poetry was published in Paris by an unknown author named A. O. Barnabooth-who in fact did not exist. Only after the book received favorable reviews by major French writers an
Juliology is an extended poetic meditation on a mountain (Juliau) that is visible from the poet's house in the Ardeche region of south-central France. Focusing in particular on the flowering yellow E
In the United States, Raymond Queneau (1903-1976) is known mainly for his novel Zazie dans le metro, which was made into a film by Louis Malle, for Excercises in Style, and for being the founder and
Unprecedented in scope and depth, this tour de force collection of poetry by French-speaking women contains over 600 poems from 56 different pens, from the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Marie de Franc
Bilingual EditionTranslated from the French and with an introduction by John Ashbery"After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to realize that his marvelous poetry would likely
We know relatively little about Troyes outside of the clues in his work, but we do know he was the inventor of the modern novel. Most trace his influences from the works of the ancient philosophers, b
The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love
To assist nonspecialist instructors in teaching this hallmark of medieval French literature, this volume surveys available editions, a range of secondary studies, and electronic aids to teaching. It a
