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  • Between the New Country and the Old World

    William Chapman and French-Canadian Literary Nationalism

    by Erin Edgington ...
    Poet and provocateur William Chapman (1850–1917) wrote patriotic verse recounting the history of New France, envisioning a glorious future for its descendants. Despite his many literary achievements – he was a two-time laureate of the Académie française and a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature – Chapman is more often remembered for his explosive feud with Louis Fréchette, a rivalry that ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Fashioned Texts and Painted Books

    Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry

    by Erin E. Edgington ...
    Series Book 312 - North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
    Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan’s multiple roles in fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan’s identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the reception of poetic texts, the study highlights the fan’s suitability as a substrate for verse, ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

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  • Reading bande dessinee

    Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip

    by Ann Miller ...
    The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Mise en Scène

    Staging Theatre Today

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Joel Anderson ...
    ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the forewordContemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Feminizing the Fetish

    Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France

    by Emily Apter ...
    Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of ... Read more

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  • Voice Lessons

    French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

    by Katherine Bergeron ...
    Series series New Cultural History of Music
    Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • No Medium

    by Craig Dworkin ...
    Close readings of ostensibly “blank” works—from unprinted pages to silent music—that point to a new understanding of media.In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Foucault on Painting

    by Catherine M. Soussloff ...
    Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines of art history and aesthetic theory. In Foucault on Painting, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically addresses present concerns about the mediated ... Read more

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  • Proust at the Movies

    by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the art of time are ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Text and Image in Modern European Culture

    Edited by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, Natasha Grigorian, Thomas Baldwin ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Proust

    Edited by Richard Bales ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD