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Le Flaubert réel
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 112.00Le Flaubert réel establishes a new concept of realism in Flaubert research. This re-definition is the result on the one hand of an occupation with disciplines such as medicine and psychiatry. On the other, following Hegel?s definition of Romantic art and Auerbach?s studies on the gospel and realism, modern literature has its primal scene in the incarnation... more...
Uren met Henk Broekhuis
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 20.65In de bundel Uren met Henk Broekhuis bundelde Karel van het Reve een veertigtal scherpzinnige columns over evenzovele onuitroeibare gemeenplaatsen van onze tijd. Stellingen als 'Vergelijkingen dienen ter verduidelijking', 'Zwemmen bij eb is gevaarlijker dan bij vloed' en 'Seks en geweld zijn in boeken, films en op de tv alleen geoorloofd... more...
Path to Peace
Marquette University Press 2007; US$ 30.00This volume offers five plays by Gabriel Marcel, a multi-talented playwright, dramatic and literary critic, and writer. The selection of plays provides examples of Marcel's concrete, direct dramatic approach to questions of interpersonal relations, love, family, commitment, and creative fidelity. Editor Hanley, a Marcel researcher and translator,... more...
The Stranger
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 36.00Comprehensive reading and study guides provide concise critical excerpts that offer a scholarly overview of each work, "The Story Behind the Story" that details the conditions under which the work was written, a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, and more. more...
Night - Elie Wiesel
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Night, a memoir by concentration camp survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, is a key work of Holocaust literature. It bears witness to the horrors endured by a teenage boy whose freedom and family are taken from him. This invaluable reference guide to one of the most remarkable memoirs ever written offers a range of contemporary essays... more...
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 84.00Who isn't familiar with the fascinating events surrounding E.T.A. Hoffmann's famous Mademoiselle de Scuderi? The historical incidents portrayed in the novella were once famously recounted by Voltaire in his Age of Louis XIV. In the series Law in Art - Art in Law (Recht in der Kunst - Kunst im Recht), which is edited by the criminal law expert Professor... more...
Carthage ou la flamme du brasier
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 67.20Carthage ou la flamme du brasier part dune suite poétique dEdouard Glissant, intitulée « Carthage », incluse dans Le sel noir (1960). Creuset des plus fructueux, ce texte a rapidement suscité chez Bernadette Cailler le désir dexplorer dautres incarnations textuelles contemporaines de ce regard porté... more...
Marcel Proust constructiviste
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 68.60A la Recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust est en premier lieu une construction complexe. La composition y est au service du désir, car elle seule permet de faire apparaître la vérité de linconscient qui ne saurait sexprimer par des efforts de mémoire ou par des esquisses psychologiques, mais bien par des figures... more...
Richard Millet
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 77.00Luvre de Richard Millet, né en 1953, simpose aujourdhui comme lune des plus importantes de ces vingt dernières années. Lobjet de ce livre, le premier qui lui soit exclusivement consacré, est den éclairer la profondeur singulière, en montrant comment elle dépasse à la... more...









