Product Description: New Critical gathers Roland Barthes's essays on classic texts of French literature, works by La Rochefoucauld, Chateaubriand, Proust, Flaubert, Fromentin, and Lori. Like an artist sketching, Barthes in these essays is working out the more fascinating details of his larger theories...read more

Product Description: In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps the major stages of Quebec’s collective development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place...read more

Product Description: novel, tr Richard Howard

Product Description: Anti-globalization activism world-wide attests to the tensions between globalization and civil society. To better understand this fraught relationship, Dorval Brunelle compares two social orders separated by a half-century. The post-World War II order entailed a broad vision uniting three complementary objectives - security, justice, and welfare - which were entrusted to a network of international and national institutions...read more

Product Description: One of the most original and memorable photographers of the twentieth century, Brassaï was also a journalist, sculptor, and writer. He took great pride in his writing, and he loved literature and language-French most of all. When he arrived in Paris in 1924, Brassaï began teaching himself French by reading Proust...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ghosts, vampires and the afterlife merge with the forces of nature and symbolic archetypes in these twelve highly original short stories that run the gamut from darkness and death to innocence and hope. While rooted in this world, they reach into the beyond with the mystical insight of parable and myth that touches something deep within the unconscious...read more

A dual-language volume of poetry by the noted French contemporary writer provides insight into the range of his creations, in an edition that includes a preface by a renowned poet and critic as well as an essay by the translator that offers additional insight into the writer's body of work.

Product Description: Adroit, inventive essays culled from a lifetime of literatureFor decades Richard Howard's stylish, deeply informed criticism has enlightened and entertained his devoted audiences. Here is a comprehensive selection of his finest essays on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix, from modern sculpture to the photography of the human body...read more

The first collection of poems to span the published work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet includes fine examples of lyric poetry and fascinating monologues and fictive conversations between famous figures.

Product Description: In 1936, French publisher Christian Zervos released a collection of drawings by Henri Matisse as part of his Cahiers d'Art series. Along with 39 stunning Matisse drawings, the book included a preface by Zervos and a poem by Tristan Tzara dedicated to the artist...read more

Product Description: “Richard Howard is an indispensable, unique poet, whose work instructs by delighting, and delights by instructing . . . he is Browning’s authentic heir at rendering the inner voices of the cultural past and present.”—Harold BloomIn a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker, published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented on his many personae:“I don’t like direct self-expression...read more

Product Description: Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada’s system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims...read more

Product Description: Worshipped as heroes, treated as gods, movie stars are more than objects of admiration. A star's influence touches on every aspect of ordinary life, dictating taste in fashion, lifestyle, and desire. Edgar Morin's remarkable investigation into the cultural and social significance of the star system traces its evolution from the earliest days of the cinema - when stars like Chaplin, Garbo, and Valentino lived at a distance from their fans, far beyond all mortals, to the postwar era in which stars like Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe became familiar and familial, less unapproachable but more moving, and concludes with an analysis of the furious religious adulation surrounding the life and death of James Dean...read more

Product Description: On Tuesday, October 12, 1954, Pierre Vernier, a teacher in a Paris lyc?e, begins setting down an account that is to be a complete record of the life lived by himself, his students, and his fellow teachers. He begins by meticulously recording what he already knows of his students, their relationships to one another, and the books they're studying...read more

A debut anthology of poetry offers an imaginative reflection on the human place in the physical world, in a five-part volume that includes such haunting and lyrical works as 'Anna's Song' and 'March Hour.' Original. (view table of contents)

A David Craig Austin Poetry Prize-winning writer presents a collection of works in which she deeply empathizes with her characters, who include misfits, artists, the students of a fifteenth-century school, and a composer on the brink of madness. Original.