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  • Photobiography

    Photographic Self-writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Mace

    by Akane Kawakami ...
    "Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured - as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects - in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularly acute questions about the rivalry between these two media, their relationship to the 'real', and the nature of the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de pensée

    Translated by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat ...
    by George Steiner ...
    Qu’est-ce que penser ? Qu’est-ce que la pensée ? Ce que nous évoquons habituellement comme notre chance, cette capacité incomparable qui nous distingue des animaux, George Steiner en interroge les effets sur nos vies et tente de comprendre quelques-unes des raisons qui ancrent nécessairement la tristesse dans le processus de la pensée : doute et frustration, brièveté de l'extrême concentration ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    Series Book 3 - The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series
    In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace, are the starting point for a meditation on the roles of writer and reader, and what kind of vision is required of them to explore and depict the world. Homer is the archetype of the writer who can see ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Corpus

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Richard A. Rand ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork.Corpus is a work of literary force at once phenomenological, sociological, theological, and philosophical in its ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of French Connectors

    by James Grieve ...
    Connecting words and phrases are essential for discussion, clarity and fluency in any language. French is particularly reliant on connecting language: also and in fact have around 15 equivalent words and expressions in French.This is the first French-English dictionary to focus on this fascinating and crucial part of the language. The dictionary presents nearly 200 full entries in alphabetical ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Age of Confession/L'Âge de la confession

    by Neil Bissoondath ...
    Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we reveal a little about our experiences, dreams, fears, desires, and fantasies. Unlike governments, which try to control and simplify narrative, fiction writers use ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Forme(s) et modes d’être / Form(s) and Modes of Being

    L’ontologie de Roman Ingarden / The Ontology of Roman Ingarden

    Edited by Olivier Malherbe, Sébastien Richard ...
    Series Book 29 - Philosophie et Politique / Philosophy and Politics
    Le présent ouvrage est un recueil d’articles de chercheurs internationaux sur l’apport à l’ontologie du phénoménologue polonais Roman Ingarden. Il contient des contributions sur des thèmes aussi divers que la dépendance existentielle, les catégories ontologiques, les modes d’être, la substance, la causalité, la forme, l’idéalisme ou encore l’ontologie des objets fictifs. Ce volume démontre que la ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • The Concept of Non-Photography

    by Francois Laruelle ...
    Translated by Robin Mackay ...
    A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Symbolism

    by Charles Chadwick ...
    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement. After an introduction to the defining ideas of the movement, it explores five key Symbolist writers: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Valéry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of Symbolism across Europe.This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Seizing: Places

    by Helene Dorion ...
    Patrick McGuinness was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for this translation.Together with her fiction, essays and livres d'artistes, Hélène Dorion's poetry constitutes one of modern Québécois literature's foremost achievements. Seizing: Places ( Ravir: Les Lieux) was awarded the Prix Mallarmé in 2005, the first time that a Canadian had won this prestigious prize. Comprising five sequences, it is ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetics of the Antilles

    Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant

    by Jean Khalfa, Peter Collier ...
    Series Book 124 - Modern French Identities
    The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Understanding French poetry : Charles Baudelaire

    Analysis of the most important poems

    by Gloria Lauzanne ...
    Analysis in English of the most important poems of Charles Baudelaire in The evil flowers. ... Read more

    $6.42 CAD