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Mallarme
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancire, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stphane Mallarm.Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal... more...
The Flowers of Evil
OUP Oxford 1993; US$ 8.99The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the... more...
Maldoror and Poems
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableInsolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing, it follows the experiences of Maldoror, a master of disguises pursued by the police as the incarnation... more...
'Germinal' and Zola's Philosophical and Religious Thought
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 98.00Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"While it is a dramatic novel... more...
History in the Text 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1980; US$ 158.00The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home: Mallarmé and Oedipus
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1984; US$ 102.00Tragedy as Symbolism It is the symbolic nature of Oedipus' quest which most centrally links the notions of Tragedy and Symbolism in the Oedipus Tyrannus, and that under the aegis of the concepts of home and homing. more...
The Essential Victor Hugo
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 8.99To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...'Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging... more...
The Man in the Iron Mask Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 12.95Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer keys. more...
Journey to the Center of the Earth Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 12.95Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer keys. more...
The Mysterious Island Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2008; US$ 12.95Containing 11 reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills, these guides include pre-and post-reading activities, story synopses, key vocabulary, and answer keys. more...









