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  • Racineby Mitchell Greenberg

    University of Minnesota Press 2009; US$ 75.00

    A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France’s preeminent dramatist—and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author—Mitchell Greenberg’s work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays’ continued fascination.Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular... more...

  • Provisionality and the Poemby Emma Wagstaff

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 67.20

    Much poetic writing in France in the post-1945 period is set in an elemental landscape and expressed through an impersonal poetic voice. It is therefore often seen as primarily spatial and cut off from human concerns. This study of three poets, André du Bouchet, Philippe Jaccottet and Bernard Noël, who have not been compared before, argues... more...

  • Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui 5by Sjef Houppermans; Nell de Hulle-Van Doeselaar; Manet van Montfrans

    Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 70.00

    Table des matières** Introduction** Joanna UROWSKA: Une leçon de Proust: Claude Mauriac à la recherche du « temps immobile »** Sylvie JEANNERET: « Est-ce que j'en suis? » Le troisième sexe chez Balzac et Proust (à propos de Sarrasine et de Sodome et Gomorrhe)** Maureen A. RAMSDEN: The deux côtés of Combray in their genetic context** Yves-Michel... more...

  • Proust dans la littérature contemporaineby Sjef Houppermans; Nell de Hulle-Van Doeselaar; Manet van Montfrans

    Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 77.00

    “Proust tel qu’il a été relu et retravaillé par un certain nombre d’auteurs contemporains représentatifs de la littérature actuelle : Julien Gracq ; Claude Simon ; Nathalie Sarraute ; Renaud Camus ; Gérard Wacjman ; Marguerite Yourcenar ; Jacques Roubaud ; Roland Barthes ; Anne-Marie Garat ; Jean Rouaud." more...

  • The Phraseology of Administrative Frenchby Wendy J. Anderson

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 84.00

    The French administrative language of the European Union is an emerging discourse: it is only fifty years old, and has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the twentieth century, but it is also a unique contact situation in which translation has always played a pivotal role. Using the methodology of corpus linguistics,... more...

  • Jean Gionoby Colette Trout; Derk Visser

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 44.80

    Grande voix à la fois solitaire, indépendante, libre, et solidaire de ceux et celles qui savaient partager les complexités et les simplicités de sa vision, celle de Jean Giono nous a donné quelques-uns des chefs-d’œuvre de notre modernité : Colline (1929), Que ma joie demeure (1935), Un roi sans divertissement... more...

  • Dirty Frenchby Adrien Clautrier; Henry Rowe

    Ulysses Press 2009; US$ 10.00

    GET D!RTY Next time you?re traveling or just chattin? in French with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: ?Cool slang ?Funny insults ?Explicit sex terms ?Raw swear words Dirty French teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of France: ?What's... more...

  • Dialogues avec Jeanne Hyvrardby Helen Vassallo; Cathy Wardle

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 51.80

    L’activité littéraire de Jeanne Hyvrard ne reste plus à présenter : de Les prunes de Cythère, Mère la mort, Les doigts du figuier jusqu’à Canal de la Toussaint, La pensée corps, Cellla, Le fichu écarlate et bien au-delà, la voix de Jeanne Hyvrard, émouvante et ferme, terriblement ancrée... more...

  • François Mauriacby Edward T. Welch

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 56.00

    While François Mauriac’s reputation as a novelist is well established, it is often forgotten that fiction forms only part of his output, and that in the post-war years especially, it was principally his activities as a journalist which kept him in the public eye. His interventions in the key debates of the period helped to consolidate his... more...