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  • Der Kleineby Friedrich Glauser

    Limmat Verlag 2013; Not Available

    Friedrich 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 Deschampsby Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi; Ian S. Laurie

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    Eustache 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 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$ 59.99

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

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

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 90.00

    Guynn 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...

  • Cligèsby Chrétien de Troyes; Ingrid Kasten; Ingrid Kasten

    De Gruyter 2006; US$ 224.00

    This is the first modern German translation of Chrétien de Troyes' Cligès. An introduction, commentary and bibliography make the text accessible for German-speaking readers. 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,... more...

  • Veiled Encountersby Michael Harrigan

    Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 84.00

    Travel 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 Engagementsby Angela Kershaw

    Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 88.20

    This 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...