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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...
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...
Clément Marot and Religion
BRILL 2010; US$ 183.00A far-reaching analysis of Clément Marot?s poetry (mainly his Psalm paraphrases) shows that this poet was much more than a frivolous court poet; he was touched by the humanist yearning to restore old texts (in this case the Jewish Psalter) to their original glory. In his translations he was inspired by Martin Bucer?s Commentary. 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...
Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Examining the portrayal of childhood and youth in a large sample of medieval French verse narratives, this study analyzes representations of childhood in two genres: chansons de geste, or Old French epic poems, and romances. Phyllis Gaffney identifies dif more...
How to Live
Other Press 2010;Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and... 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$ 16.95The 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...
Le 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...









