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  • Eustache Deschampsby David Curzon; Jeffrey Fiskin; Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi; Ian S. Laurie

    Routledge 2003; US$ 125.00

    The only available English translations of this important French medieval poet, in a facing page, dual-language edition. Includes an introduction to Deschamps and his time, as well as extensive notes and critical commentary. more...

  • Women's Writing in Contemporary Franceby Gill Rye

    Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95

    This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary production. more...

  • The Puritan and the Cynicby Jefferson Humphries

    Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 60.00

    This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature. more...

  • Debating the Roman de la roseby Christine McWebb

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 85.00

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  • Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Agesby Noah D. Guynn

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 80.00

    Offers an approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, the author considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force. more...

  • From Topic to Taleby Eugene Vance; Wlad Godzich

    University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 39.00

    Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society. more...

  • Cligèsby Chrétien de Troyes

    Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 172.80

    Cligès was probably written after Erec et Enide and is thus Chrétien de Troyes' second romance. There are several modern English and French translations of the text, but a need has long been felt for a modern German version, particularly as references in more...

  • French Women's Writing 1848-1994, 4by Diana Holmes

    Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 150.00

    A wide range of French women writers are surveyed, including Sand, Colette, Beauvoir and Duras among the "canonized", and many marginalized or forgotten and contemporary names not yet widely known outside France. These writers are seen within the political, economic and cultural context of women's lives and how these have changed across a century-and-a-half. Underpinning the whole account is the relationship between gender and language, between politics sexual and textual. more...

  • Re-hybridizing Transnational Domesticity and Femininityby Stacey Weber-Fève

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 79.99

    In Re-hybridizing Transnational Domesticity and Femininity, the book discusses some of the ways in which contemporary French, Algerian, and Tunisian women filmmakers and writers use the home and homemaking acts in their narratives to challenge traditional cinematic and literary representations of women and uncover new transnational ways of seeing, knowing, and being 'female' in their representative societies and cultures. more...

  • Debate of the Romance of the Roseby Christine de Pizan; David F. Hult

    University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00

    In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365–1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose ,” David Hult collects,... more...