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“denis hollier”

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  • Absent without Leave

    French Literature under the Threat of War

    by Denis Hollier ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    They were not the "Banquet Years," those anxious wartime years when poets and novelists were made to feel embarrassed by their impulse to write literature. And yet it was the attitude of those writers and critics in the 1930s and 1940s that shaped French literature--the ideas of Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and has so profoundly influenced literary enterprise in the English ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • A New History of French Literature

    Edited by Denis Hollier ...
    Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

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  • Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself

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  • Language and Silence

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  • Morning Star

    Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia

    by Michael Löwy ...
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  • Means Without End

    Notes on Politics

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Theory Out of Bounds
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  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Philosopher Without Faith

    by René Marill-Albérès ...
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  • Georges Bataille

    by Stuart Kendall ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Lives
    Georges Bataille was arguably the greatest influence on the post-structuralist revolution in twentieth-century thought and literature, yet few truly understand his large body of work or its impact. Stuart Kendall now translates the work and life of the renowned French writer into a concise yet informative biography that reveals fascinating facets of this intellectual giant.Until his death in 1962, ... Read more

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