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Jacques Poulin
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 1997; US$ 9.99Les romans de Jacques Poulin sondent un très petit nombre de questions essentiels : quelle influence exerce sur nous notre enfance ? comment vivre avec l?agressivité qui existe en nous-mêmes et chez les autres ? comment équilibre intérieurement la partie féminine et masculine de notre être ? Enfin, cette interrogation récursive qui recueille toutes... more...
Germaine Guèvremont
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 1998; US$ 9.99« Évoquer Germaine Guèvremont (1893-1968), c?est faire surgir le personnage mythique du Survenant, lié dans l?imaginaire québécois, aux temps heureux d?un passé révolu. » Ainsi s?ouvre le présent ouvrage, dont l?objectif est d?éclairer l?oeuvre entière de Germaine Guèvremont, aussi bien ses écrits journalistiques, encore très mal connus (environ cent... more...
Mobility of Light
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009; US$ 85.00“On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands.” These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in Mobility of Light were chosen by Louise H. Forsyth to elicit a sense of these whirling garlands and convey the intense energy—physical,... more...
Körper, Kleider, Kommunikation
Tectum Verlag 2011; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Nicht nur auf dem Laufsteg gilt: Kleidung ordnet ein oder grenzt ab. Ohne Worte verrät sie ihren Träger und seinen Stand in der Gesellschaft. Auch Schriftsteller nutzen Kleidung als zentrales Vehikel zur Definition ihrer Figuren und gesellschaftlich-sozialer Zusammenhänge. Das semantische Potenzial von Kleidung kann somit auch die... more...
The Madonna Painter
Talonbooks 2013; US$ 16.95A young priest commissions a wandering painter to decorate the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. 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...
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 44.00Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literarature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture. more...
Benito Perez Galdos and the Creative Process
University of Minnesota Press 1954; US$ 67.50Most critics would rank Benito Perez Galdos second only to Cervantes among the great novelists of Spain. However, in spite of the esteem in which he is generally held, Galdos has been the subject of relatively few scholarly studies. Professor Pattison, by more...
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Addresses the aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the interplay between Petrarch's texts and their material preparation and reception. This book aims to show how a Petrarchan hermeneutics must be based on an understanding of Petrarchan philology. more...









