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The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Random House 2009; US$ 13.34Edinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen, Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no conventional medic and surgically implants a cuckoo-clock into his chest. Little Jack grows up different to other children: every day begins with a daily wind-up. At school... more...
Grenzen im Raum - Grenzen in der Literatur
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2010; US$ 87.95Hauptbeschreibung Der Begriff der Grenze ist in den aktuellen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften nahezu ubiquitär und zu einer universalen Metapher für alles geworden, was zuerst aufgespalten und anschließend wieder miteinander verschränkt werden kann. Dabei mag es durchaus überraschen, dass sich die literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung... more...
Memory and Understanding
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 143.00This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A neuro-connectionist circuit architecture of a constructive memory... more...
Politeness and its Discontents
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 42.00This is a study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. more...
A Passenger from the West
UNO Press 2010; US$ 9.99In 1970, Nabile Fares interviewed African-American author James Baldwin for Jeune Afrique magazine. What begins in this book as an interview with Baldwin confronting the history of Black America leads Fares into a journey through his own past. Vivid encounters in France and Spain connect with Fares' remembrances of his native Algeria, its war for independence,... more...
Sans masque
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2011; US$ 11.99L?histoire de la lutte d?une jeune femme pour retrouver son identité. more...
Poems Under Saturn: Poemes saturniens
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 45.00Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, faithfully renders the collection's... more...
Novels in Three Lines
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.00A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinary trove, undiscovered until the 1940s... more...
Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 104.95At the same time that secular and religious authorities suppressed women's efforts to read, conduct books written specifically for girls and young unmarried women emerged as a new genre. Nadine Berenguier offers an in-depth analysis of this development in eighteenth-century France, situating conduct books in the context of Enlightenment concerns... more...
Chrétien Continued
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 124.99Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner provides the first book-length examination of all four verse continuations that follow Chr--eacute--;tien's unfinished Grail story, a powerful site of rewriting from the late twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. By focusing on the dialogue between Chr--eacute--;tien and the verse continuators, this study demonstrates... more...









