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An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (18501950)
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 38.00This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of poetic appreciation. The fourteen poets represented here provide a varied and exciting introduction to what is probably the richest century of French poetry, from 1850 to 1950. Hugo, the colossus... more...
The Essential Victor Hugo
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 8.99Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of Hugo's work are represented in a single volume. Famous scenes from Notre-Dame, Les Miserables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from Hugo's intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. The poems appear in bilingual... more...
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Oxford University Press, UK 1995; US$ 8.99The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a... more...
The Misanthrope
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99Affection I can endure, affectation I abhor. Empty phrases, meaningless gestures of faked good-will. These affable dispensers of embraces make me ill. Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But... more...
Räume der rêverie
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 108.00Hauptbeschreibung Ausgehend von einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem in der deutschsprachigen Romanistik vorherrschenden Bild der modernen Lyrik unternimmt die Studie den Versuch, die Geschichte der französischen Lyrik von der Romantik bis zum Surrealismus neu zu begreifen. Als zentrales Analyse-Paradigma dient dabei die Untersuchung der Rolle... more...
A Short History of French Literature
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 44.99This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events but as a series of stories... more...
Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805
University of Wales Press 2012; US$ 40.00This anthology of Welsh poetry and English translations presents some of Waless radical and reactionary responses to the French Revolution and its cultural legacy, 17891805. more...
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