Product Description: "Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie." Focusing on French literature of the Romantic era, the author probes the manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the human condition...read more

Product Description: In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France...read more

Product Description: Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce ecocriticism to scholars of French-language literature, and to open ecocriticism to the vision and voices of French literature...read more

Product Description: In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers within it...read more

Product Description: This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards...read more

Product Description: The term Francophonie has been an issue of debate among literary critics for some time. Since the 2007 manifesto many of them have gravitated to the term literature-monde. This more inclusive term is already found in the work of Glissant who saw his concept of antillanite evolve towards creolite...read more

Product Description: Ce volume examine les différents aspects de la notion de cœur afin de mieux définir ce concept auquel il est souvent fait allusion dans différents contextes sans qu’il soit pour autant rigoureusement défini. Sans ignorer la métaphore traditionnelle de l’amour et des sentiments qu’est le cœur, les différents chapitres qui composent le volume s’intéressent également aux descriptions anatomiques du cœur ainsi qu’aux différentes manifestations de ce concept, que ce soit en tant qu’organe de vérité, source de conscience ou de vie, noyau de la structure narrative, foyer d’une intertextualité ou, encore, moment clé d’un élan créatif ou réflectif...read more

Product Description: The extreme is an essential aspect of contemporary experience. Thrill-seekers spend the weekend in the search for the adrenaline rush of extreme sports. In the political arena the world has begun to rediscover the split between the extreme left and the extreme right...read more

Product Description: Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France analyzes the work of several literary critics in France and England, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, who were inspired by the idea that literature – especially the literary sublime – might offer us the deepest kind of knowledge...read more

Product Description: Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, passivity, indifference, anonymity, and absence-forces confronting the writer, but also the reader, the text itself, and the relations between the three...read more

Product Description: Originating in the conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2009, this collection of essays includes a range of innovative papers from across the diverse field of French and Francophone studies. From medieval texts to the dramatization of the novel, from postcolonial writing to the politics of film and the bande dessinée, the articles in this collection draw on recent developments in the theories of adaptation, translation, and cultural and textual transition...read more

Product Description: In a culture increasingly obsessed with the visual, self-image and extreme self-exposure, in which reality is constantly obscured and misrepresented through concealment and spin, the roles display and disguise play in literature, thought and visual culture are particularly prescient...read more

Product Description: A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theorists. These 15 essays - 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time - span nearly 40 years of Cixous' writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her 'autobibliography'...read more

Product Description: "Gunny, a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period, offers a survey of over 350 years, which is both a cross cultural history and a discussion of the intellectual changes in the representation of the Prophet's life based on the examination of original published and unpublished manuscripts...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays examines the various representations of medicine in French Literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. It addresses questions of how we have developed, authorized and dealt with the concept of being studied and treated as scientific subjects...read more

Product Description: For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished...read more