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Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Abbott considers the meaning of 'voice' in terms of rhetoric, the human body, exchange, and music,... more...
Counterfeit Capital
Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 52.50Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. more...
Complete Poems
Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... 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...
Paris Spleen
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 17.99A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century more...
Honore de Balzac
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 54.00-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers. La Comedie Humaine, Balzac's extraordinary 20-volume fictionalized history of France, has... more...
Mallarmé hors frontières
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 100.80Mallarmé hors frontières sattache à dessiner un nouveau profil de Mallarmé et à découvrir la mobilité de sa pensée, contrariant certaines caractérisations irrémédiablement associées à son nom hermétisme, obscurité, misanthropie vis-à-vis de la réalité... 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...
La clef des Illuminations
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 100.80Cette étude propose une interprétation inédite ainsi quun commentaire détaillé des Illuminations , texte qui défie depuis plus dun siècle lingéniosité des spécialistes de Rimbaud. À lencontre du parti pris des exégètes actuels qui préconisent une approche... more...
Madame Bovary at the Movies
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 61.60Some eighteen film directors from France to the United States, Germany to India, have applied themselves to the task of adapting Madame Bovary to the screen. Why has Flauberts 1857 classic novel been so popular with filmmakers? What challenges have they had to meet? What ideologies do their adaptations serve? Madame Bovary at the Movies seeks... more...









