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Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 51.80Stories of violence such as the account in Genesis of Cains jealousy and murder of Abel have been with us since the time of the earliest recorded texts. Undeniably, the scourge of violence fascinates, confounds, and saddens. What are its uses in literature its appeal, forms, and consequences? Anchored by Alice Kaplans... more...
Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 64.40The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmistons introduction to the volume a concise and informative history of queer theory ... more...
Beau Sauvage et autres contes de la Mauricie
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1990; US$ 21.00Beau Sauvage - Le Jardin des Oliviers - Cendrouillonne - Tit-l'Ourson - Le Prince des dorés - La Belle et la Bête - Les Trois Grues - Le Ruban vert - Le Cheval Bavard - Poilue - L'Eau de la Fontaine de vue - La Tourtonne - Rosalie ou L'Assiette d'or - Tit-Jean et les cachettes - Le Cheval Fallada - Grand Jack - Tit-Page et... more...
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature. more...
A History of Women's Writing in France
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 38.00Chronological survey of women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present. more...
A Taste for the Foreign
University of Delaware 2011; US$ 69.99A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot's 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Galland's early eighteenth-century version of The Thousand and One Nights. Concentrating on the most successful examples of some of the most important sub-genres of... more...
Le Court d'Amours de Mahieu le Poirier
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 16.95Le roman de Renart
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 252.00This book provides a critical edition of the 'O' manuscript (beginning of the 14th century) of the Roman de Renart. It is supplemented by a varia lectio which takes into account the different readings of the most important 'branches' or short texts of the Roman de Renart. The edition includes an introduction of the work from the perspective of literary... more...
The Anonymous Marie de France
University of Chicago Press 2006; US$ 30.00This book by one of our most admired and influential medievalists offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the author known as Marie de France. The Anonymous Marie de France is the first work to consider all of the writing ascribed to Marie, including her famous Lais , her 103 animal... more...
The Romance of Tristan
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableOne of the earliest extant versions of the Tristan and Yseut story, Beroul?s French manuscript of The Romance of Tristan dates back to the middle of the twelfth century. It recounts the legend of Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and the king?s Irish wife Yseut, who fall passionately in love after mistakenly drinking a potion. Their illicit... more...









