Product Description: Book by Prendergast, Christopher

Product Description: In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of ‘literature’ has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. Its starting point is Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?'This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless...read more

Product Description: This groundbreaking, world literature anthology offers students a truly global perspective on the whole world of literature: old and new, eastern and western (including works from often underrepresented areas like Asia, Africa, and Latin America), by women and by men, and traditional and not yet canonized works...read more

Product Description: Book by Caws, Mary Ann

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Product Description: Volume II

A new translation of the second volume of 'In Search of Lost Time' captures the intricacies and challenges of male and female adolescence and awakening love, based on the narrator's reminiscences about Paris and the Normandy coast.

Product Description: Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible...read more

Product Description: This is the first full-length study of Antoine-Jean Gros from an art-historical point of view, but it is more than a monograph. It uses the example of Gros to examine a more general crisis of history painting at a time (the Napoleonic period) of major political and cultural transition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting a new approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry, each essay in this collection focuses on the detailed organization of a single poem. Eleven essays, written from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, cover poets from Lamartine to Mallarmé and Laforgue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism: Balzac's Illusions Perdues and Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Nerval's Sylvie and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale...read more

Product Description: This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism: Balzac's Illusions Perdues and Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, Nerval's Sylvie and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale...read more

Paris in the 19th century meant Paris as the 19th century; "capital of the 19th century" in Walter Benjamin's phrase. In this book, Christopher Prendergast explores the identifications made in and about Paris - from the inspector's report and the guide book to the imaginative literature - and considers what was entailed by the competing and contradictory claims that Paris and Parisians had either acquired or lost a settled identity. "Paris and the Nineteenth Century" moves between social and cultural history, literature, painting and photography. At its heart lies a series of readings of major 19th-century texts, by Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Michelet, Flaubert, Zola, Valles, Laforgue and others. Prendergast concludes by sketching some perspectives which join the pre-modern Paris of the 19th century to the postmodern city of the late 20th century and presents a more general argument concerning the intellectual and political stakes in writing about the city today.

Product Description: Book by Cohen, Margaret (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)