Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust

Janell Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 62
• Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitud... Lees meer

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature

Edward J Hughes

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 67
• Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the ... Lees meer

The Birth of European Romanticism

John Claiborne Isbell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 49
• It was through Staël's bestseller, De l'Allemagne, that the term "Romanticism," coined in Germany, reached Europe and America. Around this term, Staël... Lees meer

Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France

Timothy Mathews, Mathews Timothy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 66
• Timothy Mathews examines work by a range of writers and painters working in France in the twentieth century. This book engages with canonical figures-... Lees meer

Flaubert's Characters

Diana Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 8
• This major new study takes issue both with the traditional critical view that Flaubert's central characters are weak and with the approach adopted by ... Lees meer

Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis

Eugene W Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 45
• This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-... Lees meer

Reading the French Enlightenment

Julie Chandler Hayes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 60
• Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classif... Lees meer

Politics and Narratives of Birth

Carol A Mossman, Mossman Carol a

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 41
• A feminist analysis that combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of ni... Lees meer

Pascal and Arts of the Mind

Hugh McCullough Davidson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 46
• This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. Hugh Davidson shows how three of ... Lees meer

The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France

Daniel Brewer, Brewer Daniel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 42
• This study explores the problems faced by writers of the Enlightenment, who attempted to demystify all previous forms of knowledge by applying rationa... Lees meer

Surrealist Collage in Text and Image

Elza Adamowicz, Adamowicz Elza

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 56
• Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and cre... Lees meer

Reading Paul Val Ry

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 58
• The most recently acknowledged--and the most private--of the masters of modernity, Paul Valéry is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He naviga... Lees meer

A Question of Syllables

Clive Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 14
• Dr Scott argues that only by attending to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understandin... Lees meer

The Unintended Reader

Naomi Segal

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 13
• This 1986 study of Manon Lescaut draws on various debates in the fields of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism. It has two principal aims:... Lees meer

System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida

Christopher Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 40
• This is an important new critical analysis of Derrida's theory of writing, based on close readings of key texts. It reveals a dimension of Derrida's t... Lees meer

Orientalism in French Classical Drama

Michele Longino, Mich Le Longino

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 69
• Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism alters the themes in French classical drama through the exploration of such plays b... Lees meer

Reading the French Enlightenment

Julie Chandler Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 60
• Reading the French Enlightenment offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of eighteenth-century thought, the rationalizing and classif... Lees meer

Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony

Ursula Tidd, Tidd Ursula

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 61
• This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood... Lees meer

Flaubert and the Gift of Speech

Stirling Haig

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 15
• This is the first book-length study of Flaubert's use of dialogue, an important but neglected component of his fictional texts. Professor Haig's start... Lees meer

Baudelaire and Intertextuality

Margery A Evans, Evans Margery a

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 38
• In this reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's text serves to question the conventions of prose forms suc... Lees meer

Politeness and Its Discontents

Peter France

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 35
• A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal cov... Lees meer

Reading Realism in Stendhal

Ann Jefferson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 22
• This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. A... Lees meer

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature

Edward J Hughes, Hughes Edward J

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 67
• Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the ... Lees meer

Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing

Floyd Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in French | nr. 63
• Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercia... Lees meer