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Maurice Blanchotby Ullrich Haase; William Large
Routledge 2001; US$ 22.95Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work. more...
Thirst for Annihilationby Nick Land
Routledge 1992; US$ 55.95An impassionate and fearless study of Georges Bataille which goes beyond analysis and criticism to actually engage with him. more...
Stigmataby Helene Cixous
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Stigmata collects some of Helene Cixous' most intriguing meditations. A unique book, it is a testimony to an extraordinary writer. more...
Helene Cixous, Rootprintsby Helene Cixous; Mireille Calle-Gruber
Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95This first English translation of Cixous' book, Photos de Racine , explores Cixous' development as a writer and intellectual. A must for students and scholars of French feminist theory, gender studies and literary theory. more...
Marguerite Durasby Leslie Hill
Routledge 1993; US$ 38.95The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis. more...
Hugo's Les Miserablesby Amy L. Marsland; George Klin
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Les Miserables, you examine two themes from Victor Hugo's epic: the struggle between good and evil in the soul of one man, and society's struggle toward a greater good. Addressing many of the social issues of his day, Hugo wrote this novel, which traces the path of Jean Valjean as he changes from convict to saint. Hugo believed in the spiritual possibilities of human beings and has chosen the story of the poor and outcast to illustrate this "perfectibility... more...
Blanchotby Leslie Hill
Routledge 1997; US$ 41.95Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Blanchot sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War. more...
Simone de Beauvoirby Ursula Tidd
Routledge 2003; US$ 22.95Drawing upon de Beauvior's literary and theoretical texts, this is the essential guidebook for those approaching the work of this key thinker for the first time. more...
Proust, Beckett, and Narrationby James H. Reid
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00This is the first book-length comparison of the narrative techniques of Marcel Proust and Samuel Beckett. This study is an important contribution to critical literature, and offers fresh perspectives on the crucial importance of the Recherche and Beckett's trilogy: Molloy, Malone dies, and The Unnamable in the context of the twentieth-century novel. more...
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writingby Floyd Gray; Michael Sheringham
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Gray offers new readings of a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical. more...