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9780812247794 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 2, 2015, cover price $65.00
Product Description: Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi...read more
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9781433123092 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 13, 2015, cover price $88.95 | About this edition: Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi.
Product Description: French crime fiction and the Second World War explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture in one of its most enduring forms: crime fiction. A populist literary form, French crime fiction offers fascinating insights into past and present perceptions of the war years in France, as well as the role that popular culture has played in both shaping and reflecting cultural memories of the Occupation...read more
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9780719082658 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 11, 2012, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This study explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture and one of its more enduring forms, crime fiction.
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9780719095498 | Reprint edition (Manchester Univ Pr, July 31, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: French crime fiction and the Second World War explores France's preoccupation with memories of the Second World War through an examination of popular culture in one of its most enduring forms: crime fiction.
Product Description: How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films...read more
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9781137339980 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 3, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable?
Product Description: The realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century. Each places a premium on the author's or trial lawyer's ability to reconstruct reality, reflecting modernity's preoccupation with firsthand experience as the basis of epistemological authority...read more
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9781107012974 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century.
Product Description: This book shows how novels can filter political information on wars back to an interested audience in a neighboring country. Scholars have remarked that World War I offered women possibilities that were not available to them prior to the war...read more
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9780773430617 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $129.95 | About this edition: This book shows how novels can filter political information on wars back to an interested audience in a neighboring country.
Product Description: In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years. Included are well-known writers (male and female) such as Aubert, Simenon, Boileau-Narcejak, Vargas, Daeninckx, and Jonquet, as well as a broad range of lesser-known authors...read more
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9780754668695 | Ashgate Pub Co, February 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In the first major study of representations of World War II in French crime fiction, Margaret-Anne Hutton draws on a corpus of over a hundred and fifty texts spanning more than sixty years.
Product Description: "... a very impressive contribution to discussions of memory in relation to the Holocaust and colonialism in French and Francophone contexts. It is original, erudite, theoretically highly sophisticated and likely to be of immense value in developing debates in the field...read more
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9780857458834 | Berghahn Books, February 28, 2013, cover price $90.00
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9781782389002 | Reprint edition (Berghahn Books, February 28, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: ".
Product Description: The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such...read more
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9780803238053 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The explosive proliferation of pictures in advertising and pop culture, mass media, and cyberspace following World War II, along with the profusion of critical thinking that tries to make sense of it, has had wide-ranging implications for cultural production as such.
Product Description: This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa. It examines the form assumed by the ghosts of the past in fiction from a range of genres (travel writing, detective fiction, life writing, historical fiction, women's writing) produced within metropolitan France, and assesses whether moments of haunting may in fact open up possibilities for a renewed relational structure of cultural memory...read more
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9780739145036 | Lexington Books, August 1, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This book examines the way in which France has failed to come to terms with the end of its empire, and is now haunted by the legacy of its colonial relationship with North Africa.
Product Description: Albert Camus's landmark existentialist novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens...read more
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9781604135800, titled "Albert Camus's The Stranger: New Edition" | New edition (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 2011), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Albert Camus's landmark existentialist novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act.
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9783034301794 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 17, 2011, cover price $51.95
Product Description: The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's à la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra...read more
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9780521118903 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 9, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres.
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9780786458578 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 29, 2010, cover price $55.00
Product Description: Subjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny (Das Unheimliche) in the context of French literature. It explores the ways in which certain contemporary French novelists are exploiting the themes, imagery and dynamics of the uncanny to generate a repertoire of narrative tactics for the portrayal of the chez soi...read more
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9789042030053, titled "Subjects Not-at-home: Forms of the Uncanny in the Contemporary French Novel: Emmanuel Carrere, Marie Ndiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya" | Rodopi Bv Editions, June 5, 2010, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Subjects Not-at-home is the first book-length study of the concept of the uncanny (Das Unheimliche) in the context of French literature.
Product Description: In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction for female protagonists, the heroines investigated in Career Stories are professional lawyers, doctors, teachers, writers, archeologists, and scientists...read more
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9780271032689 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, February 1, 2008, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period.
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9780271032696 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period.
9780130485960, titled "Frommer''s Dollarwise Cruises 1989-1990" | Simon & Schuster, cover price $14.95 | also contains Frommer''s Dollarwise Cruises 1989-1990
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9780837194592 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1977, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Book by Blackwell, Basil
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9780130485960 | Simon & Schuster, cover price $14.95 | also contains Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development
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