In 2011, Sarah Kay performed her poem “B” at the TED conference in Long Beach, California to standing ovations. Now the video of that performance has been forwarded to mothers and daughters (and fathers and sons) all over the world. Originally written in 2007, “B” is a thank you note, a love letter, a wish, a promise, a confession, and a secret. With beautiful illustrations by Sophia Janowitz, “B” is finally available in this whimsical, magical book. This book is the perfect gift for every mother and every daughter. Short, touching and lovingly illustrated, it is a family tradition waiting for you to start.

Product Description: The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known but was more transformative...read more

Tracing the history of French literature since its beginnings, this book offers an account of major writers and movements. It presents the developments in French literature in a different way. It allows the readers to grasp the main characteristics of major periods and enjoy an appraisal of individual works and their contexts.

Zizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinkerof modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosivecombination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which testskey psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major Europeanthinkers, especially Hegel. It has ignited enthusiasm andstimulated new approaches across a vast range of disciplines, andseems to be attracting an ever-growing readership. In part, this isbecause Zizek himself has a panoramic range of interestsencompassing film studies, literature, cyber culture, ethics,theology and, above all, politics. It is also because he is ahighly entertaining writer, having a flair for anecdote, a smuttysense of humour and the knack of capturing complex ideas inconcrete form. Sarah Kay's book provides a lucid and comprehensive introduction toZizek's work. His writings to date are presented and evaluated herefor the first time, together with an outline of their developmentand explanations of his key premises, themes and terms. This bookwill be essential reading for students of cultural studies,literary studies, philosophy and social and political theory. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have often dismissed the chansons de geste as coming before and being inferior to the new and distinctively literary achievement of romance...read more