Verlaine

A E Carter

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary ... Lees meer

Sapphic Fathers

Gretchen Schultz

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Literature that explored female homosexuality flourished in late nineteenth-century France. Poets, novelists, and pornographers, whether Symbolists, R... Lees meer

Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Baudelaire

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of co... Lees meer

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

Cheryl Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France... Lees meer

The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900

A E Carter

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fring... Lees meer

Telling Anxiety

Jennifer Willging

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• In Telling Anxiety , Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French. Lees meer

Crispin Ier

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Raymond Poisson, a contemporary of Molière, was the leading comic actor with the troupe of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and later at the Comédie Française d... Lees meer

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

Cheryl Krueger

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France... Lees meer

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England

William Calin

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlud... Lees meer

Postcolonial Counterpoint

Farid Laroussi

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the h... Lees meer

Theatre in French Canada

Leonard Doucette

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Th... Lees meer

Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture

Daniel Russell

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The emblem and the device (or i mpresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a signifi... Lees meer

The Rule of Metaphor

Paul Ricouer

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and ... Lees meer

Naturalisme Pas Mort

B. H. Bakker

• Paperback | Frans | University of Toronto Romance
• Paul Alexis was a novelist, journalist, and dramatist, one of the naturalistes , and a friend of Emile Zola. This volume brings together for the first... Lees meer

La Chronique de Robert de Clari

Peter Dembowski

• Paperback | Frans | University of Toronto Romance
• Robert de Clari (died c. 1220), a member of the Lesser Picard nobility from the vicinity of Amiens, left a chronicle of the Fourth Crusade in which he... Lees meer

Writing by Ear

Marilia Librandi

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the n... Lees meer

Unselfing

Michaela Hulstyn

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - c... Lees meer

The Persistence of Presence

Bradley J Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in t... Lees meer

French 'Ecocritique'

Stephanie Posthumus

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which　contemporary French literature and theory raise questions a... Lees meer

Science and the Human Comedy

Harcourt Brown

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• New scientific theories, methods, and objectives exert subtle and often unnoticed influences on literary creation. The developments of the attitudes a... Lees meer

The Legendary Sources of Flaubert's Saint Julien

Benjamin Bart, Robert Cook

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• The sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier , one of Flaubert's finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting... Lees meer

Victims of the Book

Francois Proulx

• Hardcover | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of th... Lees meer

The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic

Eugene Dorfman

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• In this study Professor Dorfman applies the methods of modern linguistics to literary analysis. Literature may be described as the structured use of l... Lees meer

Emery Bigot

Leonard Doucette

• Paperback | Engels | University of Toronto Romance
• Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of lit... Lees meer