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  • Writing, the Other Life

    Annie Ernaux and others

    **WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREFor fans new to Annie Ernaux and longtime readers, this collection of interviews, writing by critics and journalists, with diary excerpts and unpublished texts by Ernaux herself, also includes visual material like drawings, photos, and newspaper clippings.**Magisterial in scope and size, Writing, The Other Life wascompiled and edited by Pierre-Louis ... Read more

    $29.99 USD $23.99 USD

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  • The Little Prince

    The Visual Encyclopedia

    Everything you need to know about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s globally beloved classicThis is the story of a timeless tale for readers both young and old; it is the chronicle of a philosophical fable that has marked––and changed––the lives of generations of enthusiastic readers; it is the saga of a cult classic, second only to the Bible as the world’s bestselling book!From its first edition ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Proust's Songbook

    Songs and Their Uses

    Series series Sound in History
    In Proust’s Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as is common in Proust musical studies, Rushworth argues for the centrality of songs and lyrics in Proust’s opus. Her work ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • A Summer with Pascal

    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud’s popularized Pascal’s wager, an invitation to faith that has ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Through a Nuclear Lens

    France, Japan, and Cinema from Hiroshima to Fukushima

    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes formal and theoretical analysis, archival ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Katastrofy i wypadki w czasach romantyków

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Nowa Biblioteka Romantyczna
    Po raz pierwszy przemknęła mi myśl o tytułowej tematyce, gdy 12 września 2001 roku, w dzień po zamachu na World Trade Center, ujrzałem na Krakowskim Przedmieściu orszak manifestacyjny prowadzony przez prominentnego polityka; uczestnicy nieśli tabliczki z napisem: ”Oto kara za świat bez Boga” i śpiewali religijne pieśni. Zastanawiało mnie, do jakiej tradycji przypisać to wydarzenie i słowa na ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Objets de désir dans la littérature et les arts de l'image

    Nouvelles Recherches sur l'Imaginaire, XLV

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Nouvelles Recherches sur l’Imaginaire
    Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’offrir une approche originale non pas du désir, qui a été souvent et largement étudié, mais de ses objets, dans leur diversité, leur complexité, leur ambivalence, et leurs variations dans le temps. L’ouvrage est pluridisciplinaire, ce qui permet d’aborder des objets très divers (de la relique à l’âme comme objet de désir), et parfois paradoxaux (du bien connu désir de ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1846. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical ... Read more

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  • Zur Korrelation von Werbung und Literatur

    Eine soziokulturelle Studie zu einem literaraesthetischen Werbeformat der 1950er-Jahre und deren Relevanz fuer einen kompetenzorientierten Deutschunterricht

    Das Buch erfasst textuelle, visuelle und poetische Strukturen von Werbeanzeigen in literarischen Texten analytisch, und es stellt ein auf andere Werbeformate übertragbares Analyseraster vor. Ausgangspunkt der interdisziplinär angelegten Untersuchung ist die Frage, wie der Wechsel von fiktionaler Lektüre (literarischer Text) zu faktualer Lektüre (Werbeanzeige) gestalterisch erfolgt und wie dieses ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Idealist Epistemology and the Baudelairean Experience of Modernity

    Fragments in the Dark

    Series Book 54 - Romania Viva
    This study proposes an epistemological model on the basis of a streamlined and heavily modified German Idealism. With an analytical focus on the French Second Empire, the underlying research question is rather straightforward: how is knowledge created in material modernity? Using my epistemological model as a methodology for cultural criticism, a second research question emerges: how does the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rewriting the Orient

    Asian Works in the Making of World Literature

    by Yunfei Bai ...
    Series Book 327 - North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
    In this ambitious volume, Yunfei Bai delves into the creative adaptations of classical Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan literary texts by four renowned nineteenth- and early twentieth-century authors in France and Argentina: Theophile Gautier, Stephane Mallarme, Victor Segalen, and Jorge Luis Borges. Without any knowledge of the source languages, the authors crafted their own French and Spanish ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Interdisziplinaere Perspektiven der Germanistik in multiethnischen Gebieten

    Der Sammelband bietet Beiträge zu ausgewählten Genres (Erzählung, Autobiografie, Roman) und zum aktuellen Sprachgebrauchin den Medien und in der urbanen Öffentlichkeit. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive werden sozialhistorische Hintergründe, Stofflichkeit, Erzählkunst und Rezeptionswege literarischer (Gegenwarts-)Produktionen erörtert, die Einzelschicksale, Migration, Heimatverlust oder ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Claude Simon, l'avidité de vivre

    Series series Quæstiones
    On présente souvent l’œuvre de Claude Simon comme austère et difficile d’accès, cet essai en montre l’aspect ludique, érotique et critique. Il est consacré au Jardin des Plantes et aux roses – femmes, fleurs, couleurs – qui s’y trouvent. Ce point de départ ouvre sur une relecture de l’ensemble de l’œuvre pour en montrer la capacité de renouvellement et la lutte contre l’avancée de la mort qui s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How To Speak French

    A Conversational Guide to Bonjour, Bonheur, and Other French Expressions

    Bonjour, Adventure Seeker! Tired of "Bonjour" and "Merci"?**Craving French that lets you:Chat with confidence at cafés and museums?Order delicious food you can actually pronounce?Impress your friends with witty French slang?Then ditch the dry textbooks and grab this passport to conversational French!"How to Speak French: A Conver... ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

  • Les Cahiers de Douai d'Arthur Rimbaud - Analyse de l'oeuvre

    Analyse de l'oeuvre - Les Cahier de Douai d'Arthur RimbaudLes Cahiers de Douai, écrits par Arthur Rimbaud à l'âge de 16 ans, sont bien plus qu'une simple œuvre de jeunesse. Ils contiennent en germe tout le génie fulgurant et la révolte flamboyante du poète maudit.Cette analyse approfondie en quatre parties vous invite à plonger au cœur de ce recueil méconnu et fascinant. Vous y découvrirez :Les ... Read more

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  • Krisen und Resilienz aus germanistischen und interdisziplinaeren Perspektiven

    Gedenkschrift fuer Prof. Dr. Serge A. Glitho

    Series Book 149 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    Die jüngste Vermehrung von Krisenherden und ihren weltweiten Auswirkungen lässt Resilienz als Modewort auftreten. Damit ist keineswegs ein resignativer fatalistischer Umgang mit Krisen gemeint, sondern vielmehr Fähigkeiten und Haltungen, die aktiviert bzw. eingenommen werden sollen, um diesen Krisen angemessen entgegenzuwirken und über sie stärker hinwegzukommen. Die in diesem Band gesammelten ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Seventeenth- Century Dutch Painting and Modern Literature

    Series Book 44 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    The book is an attempt at a monographic approach to the problem of the reception of 17th-century Dutch painting in modern literature. However, the author deals not only with contemporary works but also with the texts of 19th-century writers and critics, most often French, who shaped the so-called myth of the Dutch Golden Age. Readers learn the historically conditioned models of perception of 17th ... Read more

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  • Controlling Animals: Vain Attempts at Immortality in Three Works of Fiction

    Based on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this work, the author demonstrates to readers the flawed pursuit of attempting to avert death through the subjugation of animals. This pursuit is ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • El mundo según Jorge Semprún

    Introducción al universo literario sempruniano

    Acercarse a la obra de Jorge Semprún supone profundizar en los principales sucesos históricos que marcaron el siglo XX, pues en cada uno de sus escritos los lectores ven reflejado a un autor cuya vida está en absoluta consonancia con su época.Su universo literario está compuesto por una gran red de recuerdos y referencias artísticas, históricas y personales, que van hilvanando las diferentes ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Gulf War Captivity Narratives

    Identity and Ideology

    Series Book 8 - Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media
    The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-heroism. Moreover, it probes the texts’ complex authorship, uncovers their role in promoting cultural stereotypes and in propagating violence. Hence, this study is deeply involved with uncovering narrative ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Alone with Each Other

    Literacy and Literature Intertwined

    Series Book 23 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric
    This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses."As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully crafted written work in composition, I think this focused book of his collected essays will be extremely compelling reading for people ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Agents without Empire

    Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France

    It is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Theodor Fontane y la paradoja de la inocencia en la culpa: el caso de Effi Briest

    Este volumen explora el tema de la culpa en Effi Briest (1894). Pese a ser una cuestión central en la novela y la obra literaria de Theodor Fontane, esta no ha sido hasta la fecha objeto de sistematización. La primera parte del trabajo ofrece un acercamiento teórico a este fenómeno. A partir de aspectos sociohistóricos, filosóficos y religiosos se intenta reconstruir un posible sentido de culpa ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Das gymnasiale Lesebuch und seine Abbildungen der bildenden Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 bis 1989

    Series Book 78 - Beitraege zur Geschichte des Deutschunterrichts
    Zwischen 1949 und 1989 nahmen Kunstabbildungen in Lesebüchern einen gewichtigen Raum ein. Die Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend, welche Intentionen die Verantwortlichen mit den Abbildungen verfolgten, ob diese ausschließlich zur optischen Aufwertung der Bände dienten oder auch didaktische Zwecke hatten. Es wird u.a. der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich die Abbildungen im Laufe von vierzig Jahren ... Read more

    $101.99 USD