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Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 109.99This is a study of the 19th-century French poet, Tristan Corbi--egrave--;re. Using close textual readings from Les Amours jaunes, the only collection published in Corbi--egrave--;re's lifetime, it examines his self-contradictory style. Corbi--egrave--;re's use of irony is shown to be a means of exploring the doubts of modern man and the spiritual... more...
Collected Poems and Other Verse
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 8.99St--eacute--;phane Mallarm--eacute--; was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. This is the fullest collection of Mallarm--eacute--;'s poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Po--eacute--;sies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. It includes all... more...
Dispositio
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Drawing on the classical concept of rhetorical dispositio, this study gives interpretations of a number of literary texts of the French Renaissance (Rabelais, Du Bellay, Montaigne and others). more...
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 98.00This comprehensive reference begins with an introductory chapter that overviews Flaubert's life and career. A detailed summary of the novel's plot is followed by a close examination of the novel's genesis, its publication history, and the merits of various editions and translations. Later chapters discuss the social and cultural contexts... more...
Rimbaud
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern... more...
One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 18.00French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown... more...
The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Examining both familiar and underappreciated early modern texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that four writers-Joachim Du Bellay, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, and William Shakespeare -conceived with both their classical and modern predecessors. Melehy sheds new light on pertinent issues in early modern studies, including translation,... more...
The Nothing Machine
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 70.00In an era when reality was aestheticized as collectibles, Octave Mirbeau unleashed his fiction like a destructive machine, setting fire to stale material and discredited ideologies, burning them as fuel and expelling texts as clean emissions. In this first English-language overview of all the novels published under Mirbeaus name, this study argues... more...
Prophètes, sorciers, rumeurs
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 84.00Prophètes, sorciers, rumeurs: La violence dans trois romans de Jules Barbey dAurevilly (1808 1889) étudie la représentation de la violence dans trois romans de Barbey dAurevilly. On a souvent dit de lunivers de Barbey quil est saturé de violence. Jusquici, cependant, on navait jamais mis... more...
Genèses flaubertiennes
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 88.20Genèses flaubertiennes emprunte la voie déjà tracée par Flaubert topographe (1997) et La Production du descriptif (2002) dÉric Le Calvez et aborde la genèse de luvre de Flaubert avec des questions qui relèvent de la théorie de la production textuelle. Le premier axe choisi examine des fragments... more...









