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The Self-Dismembered Man
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 12.99First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. more...
At the Periphery of the Center
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 39.20At the Periphery of the Center is the first comparison of two of Frances most important twentieth-century authors, Julien Green and Marguerite Yourcenar. It examines textual elements in their plays and novels to draw conclusions about the ways that they represent homosexuality in their texts. Both Yourcenar and Green turned to drama to explore... more...
Spanische Literatur - Literatur Europas
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 210.00Der vorliegende Band enthält 38 Beiträge renommierter Hispanisten aus Europa und Übersee. Das Themenspektrum umfaßt die ganze Breite der spanischen Literaturgeschichte vom Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Im Mittelpunkt des Untersuchungsinteresses steht die Frage nach den Bezügen der spanischen zu anderen europäischen (oder amerikanischen)... more...
Writing against Deat
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 70.00Much has been written on Simone de Beauvoir, one of Frances leading intellectual figures of the 20th century. The sheer volume of her autobiographical writings testifies to her indefatigable questioning of the nature of existence and her personal and public engagement in the world over the best part of a century. This study aims to re-evaluate... more...
Memory and Understanding
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 143.00This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A neuro-connectionist circuit architecture of a constructive memory... more...
Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns... more...
Linfluence de lhistoire contemporaine dans luvre de Marguerite Yourcenar
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 140.00Linfluence de lhistoire contemporaine dans luvre de Marguerite Yourcenar propose de montrer que, loin dêtre seulement un écrivain classique qui sintéresse à lhistoire du passé, Marguerite Yourcenar ne cesse dévoquer lhistoire contemporaine et en subit nettement linfluence.... more...
The Stranger
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 36.00Comprehensive reading and study guides provide concise critical excerpts that offer a scholarly overview of each work, "The Story Behind the Story" that details the conditions under which the work was written, a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, and more. more...
Marcel Proust
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 54.00An avid critic an translator, Marcel Proust is best remembered as author of the novel "The Remembrance of Things Past. more...









