Fuzzy Fiction

Jean-Louis Hippolyte

• Paperback | Engels | Stages
• Fuzzy Fiction examines the phenomenon of "fuzziness," both figurative and structural, in the contemporary French novel. Fuzziness, as originally conce... Lees meer

Listening in

Eric Prieto

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• What can music teach a novelist, autobiographer, or playwright about the art of telling stories? The musical play of forms and sounds seems initially ... Lees meer

Essays in Aesthetics

Gerard Genette

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• Over the course of the past forty years, Gérard Genette's work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary an... Lees meer

Small Worlds

Warren Motte

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 13
• Small Worlds examines the minimalist trend in French writing, from the early 1980s to the present. Warren Motte first considers the practice of minima... Lees meer

Naming & Unnaming

Jordan Stump

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 12
• Naming and Unnaming is a dazzling study that centers on the work of Raymond Queneau, one of the most influential French novelists of the twentieth cen... Lees meer

The Rushdie Letters

In Association with Article 19

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• In February 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran announced that Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses , and "all involved in its publicatio... Lees meer

Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

Sarah Kofman

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 7
• Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when ... Lees meer

Rhetorical Narratology

Michael Kearns

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 16
• Narratology attempts to determine the rules or codes of composition of a narrative and to formulate the "grammar" of narrative, that is, the structure... Lees meer

Why Fiction?

Jean-Marie Schaeffer

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• In Why Fiction? --one of the most important works of narrative theory to come out of France in recent years--Jean-Marie Schaeffer understands fiction ... Lees meer

In Praise of Flattery

Willis Goth Regier

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• Where would we be without flattery? Hobbes deemed it an honorable duty and Meredith called it the "finest of the arts." Alexander the Great applied it... Lees meer

Quotology

Willis Goth Regier

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• Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and c... Lees meer

Pictures Into Words

Ari J Blatt

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• The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of... Lees meer

Fuzzy Fiction

Jean-Louis Hippolyte

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 21
• Fuzzy Fiction examines the phenomenon of "fuzziness," both figurative and structural, in the contemporary French novel. Fuzziness, as originally conce... Lees meer

Jail Sentences

Andrew Sobanet

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• A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the impriso... Lees meer

Palimpsests

Gerard Genette

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 8
• By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of e... Lees meer

Fascism's Return

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 10
• The past fifteen years have witnessed the renewed presence of fascism in European political and cultural life. In addition, there have been scandals s... Lees meer

Semiotic Investigations

Alec McHoul

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 6
• In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics"-a theory that investigates "the ways in which... Lees meer

The Other Book

Jordan Stump

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages
• Jordan Stump had often contemplated the relationship between a translation and "the book itself," ruminating on the intriguing inherent sameness and d... Lees meer

Dump This Book While You Still Can!

Marcel Benabou

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 18
• In one of the most thought-provoking and wry books by one of the most intriguing contemporary writers in French literature, readers become party to th... Lees meer

Loiterature

Ross Chambers

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 14
• The fabric of the western literary tradition is not always predictable. In one wayward strand, waywardness itself is at work, delay becomes almost pre... Lees meer

Speaking of Crime

Patricia E O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 17
• Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of crime. What is the power of speech for prisoners? What... Lees meer

Give the Word

Werner Hamacher

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages
• Werner Hamacher's witty and elliptical 95 Theses on Philology challenges the humanities--and particularly academic philology--that assume language to ... Lees meer

Mimologics

Gerard Genette

• Paperback | Engels | Stages | nr. 2
• Do words-their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns-imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Plato's Cratylus more than two ... Lees meer

The Mirror of Ideas

Michel Tournier

• Hardcover | Engels | Stages | nr. 9
• If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another--man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, ... Lees meer