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  • The Syndicateby Eduardo De Filippo; Mike Poulton

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99

    Smuggled out of Naples in his youth after stabbing a brutal night-watchman to death, Antonio Barracano returned home in the 1960s as a wealthy man. He used his newfound status to quash his murder conviction, and was soon feared but respected throughout the city. Don Antonio has made it his life’s work to bring rough justice to the criminals of... more...

  • Nanaby Émile Zola; Douglas Parmée

    OUP Oxford 1992; US$ 8.99

    Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced... more...

  • Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2010by Ulrich Joost; Alexander Neumann; Bernd Achenbach; Heinrich Tuitje

    Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 53.92

    Hauptbeschreibung Das Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch bringt neben Erstdrucken aus dem Nachlaß, insbesondere aus den Sudelbüchern und Tagebüchern, neue Funde von Lichtenberg-Briefen, kommentierte Ausdrucke von nicht wieder veröffentlichten Kalenderartikeln, Miszellaneen zu Person und Werk, eine fortlaufende Bibliographie und regelmäßige Bücherschau, vor allem... more...

  • Nouveaux territoires de la poésie francophone au Canada 1970-2000by Jacques Paquin

    Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2012; US$ 19.99

    La cartographie la plus à jour de la poésie francophone du Canada au tournant du XXIe siècle. more...

  • Ned Ludd & Queen Mabby Peter Linebaugh

    PM Press 2012; US$ 3.99

    Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. more...

  • Pot Pourriby Eugenio Cambaceres; Josefina Ludmer; Lisa Dillman

    Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 15.99

    Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola. to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a. precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for an understanding of. the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of a national identity, and. especially for... more...

  • Les Liaisons dangereusesby Pierre Choderlos de Laclos; Douglas Parmée; David Coward

    Oxford University Press, UK 1995; US$ 8.99

    The 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...

  • Literatur im Exilby Olaf Müller

    Vittorio Klostermann 2012; US$ 95.98

    Hauptbeschreibung Diese Arbeit wirft einen komparatistischen Blick auf die Funktion literarischer Exildiskurse in Frankreich und Italien und analysiert deren Bedeutung für die Konstitution romantischer Autorschaft in der Folge der Französischen Revolution. Entlang exemplarischer Stationen der französischen und italienischen Literaturgeschichte zwischen... more...

  • Spanische Literatur im historischen, politischen und kulturellen Kontextby Manfred Lentzen

    Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 64.49

    Hauptbeschreibung Der vorliegende Band vereint insgesamt sechsundzwanzig Studien zur spanischen Literatur des Goldenen Zeitalters, der Aufklärung und des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das einigende Band aller Studien besteht darin, die literarischen Texte sowohl in struktureller und ästhetischer Hinsicht als auch im Zusammenhang der historischen, politischen... more...

  • All Is Fleshby Yannick Renaud; Hugh Hazelton

    Talonbooks 2013; US$ 17.95

    The first appearance in English of this innovative and notable French Canadian poet. more...