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Medieval. Old French

  • Between Baudelaire and Mallarméby Helen Abbott

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95

    Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Abbott considers the meaning of 'voice' in terms of rhetoric, the human body, exchange, and music,... more...

  • Violent Passionsby Tracy Adams

    Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00

    This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn. more...

  • The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sadeby Timo Airaksinen

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95

    The Marquis de Sade is famous for his forbidden novels like Justine, Juliette , and the 120 Days of Sodom . Yet, despite Sade's immense influence on philosophy and literature, his work remains relatively unknown. His novels are too long, repetitive, and violent. At last in The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade , a distinguished philosopher provides... more...

  • My ? Omegaby Kurt Aland; H. Riesenfeld

    De Gruyter 1983; US$ 224.00

    Vollständige Konkordanz zum griechischen Neuen Testament : unter Zugrundelegung aller modernen kritischen Textausgaben und des Textus receptus. Band I, Teil 2 : m-[omega] more...

  • Charles d'Orléans in England (1415-1440)by Mary-Jo Arn

    Boydell & Brewer 2000; US$ 99.00

    Charles, duc d'Orléans, prince and poet, was a captive in England for twenty-five years following the battle of Agincourt. The studies in this volume, by European and American scholars, focus on his life and actions during that time, and show him as a serious and learned reader, a cunning political figure (accomplished in the skills that would impress... more...

  • Counterfeit Capitalby Jennifer Bajorek

    Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 52.50

    Counterfeit Capital is a comparative and interdisciplinary study exploring the unexpected yet essential relationship between irony and capital in the texts of Baudelaire and Marx and arguing for the renewed relevance of their work to contemporary thinking about the place of aesthetic and cultural experience in social and political life. more...

  • How to Liveby Sarah Bakewell

    Other Press 2010; US$ 15.95

    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 feeling happy?... more...

  • How to Liveby Sarah Bakewell

    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...

  • Rétif de la Bretonne spectateur nocturne.by Philippe Barr

    Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 47.00

    À la lumière d’une réflexion sur les motifs politiques à l’origine du sort réservé à l’œuvre de Rétif de la Bretonne par ses contemporains, cet essai propose de replacer l’écriture rétivienne au sein des stratégies de pouvoir qui, de Fontenelle à Marmontel, sont à... more...

  • Complete Poemsby Charles Baudelaire; Walter Martin

    Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64

    Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... more...