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Der Kleine
Limmat Verlag 2013; Not AvailableFriedrich Glauser hat nicht nur autobiografische Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit in Wien aufgeschrieben, einzelne Episoden hat er gleich mehrmals in Erzählungen aufgenommen. Seine Geschichten zeichnen ein sehr lebensnahes Bild einer Wiener Kindheit um 1900. Da ist ein gestrenger Vater, der seinen Sohn «abhärten» will fürs Leben. Da ist eine verständnisvolle... more...
Eustache Deschamps
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first writer to dissociate lyric poetry from its musical setting and his witty perceptions comment on nearly... more...
Women's Writing in Contemporary France
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95This 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 Cynic
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 59.99This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature. more...
From Topic to Tale
University of Minnesota Press 1987; US$ 39.00Shows how a rhetorical tradition was transformed into a textual one and ends with a discussion of the relationship between discourse and society. more...
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory and its disciplinary force. more...
Re-hybridizing Transnational Domesticity and Femininity
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2010; US$ 79.99In 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,... more...
Veiled Encounters
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 84.00Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because... more...
Forgotten Engagements
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 88.20This study is the first to examine the contribution made by women writers to politically committed literature in 1930s France. Its purpose is to bring to light the work of female authors of left-wing fiction whose novels are comparable to those of well-known male practitioners of littérature engagée , such as Paul Nizan and Louis Aragon.... more...









