Product Description: This volume presents a selection of essays in English and French initially delivered at the interdisciplinary conference of the Association of Modern and Contemporary France held in Leicester in September 2000. Frontiers are defined broadly in terms of material and symbolic inter- and transnational spaces where French and Francophone artists, communities and nations face their own selves and each other...read more

Product Description: Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail. French Cultural Studies provides a theoretical framework for reconsidering the domain of knowledge and expertise traditionally associated with the discipline of French...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drove and drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what it is that characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments have pursued in the past and present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This fascinating book studies all aspects of the French Revolution, from its origins, through its development, right up to the consequences of this major historical event. Bringing together key texts at the forefront of new research and interpretation, Gary Kates challenges orthodox assumptions concerning the origins, development and long-term historical repercussions of the Revolution...read more

Product Description: The literature of knighthood focuses, for the most part, on the medieval aspects of the institution - the familiar themes of chivalry, the tournament, etc. - or on its later, romantic revival. Dr Herman shifts attention to early modern times, a period that writers on knighthood usually describe as anachronistic, all pomp and little consequence...read more

Product Description: This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future...read more

A provocative portrait of 1930s Paris captures the colorful artistic, political, cultural, and social milieus of a city that had become the center of world civilization during the period, set against the backdrop of the growing political storm that would soon engulf Europe in war.

Characterizes the French way of seeing the world and probes the effects of France's age-old ability to fashion itself as a civilizing force