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  • Robert Antelme

    Humanity, Community, Testimony

    by Martin Crowley ...
    "Best known for his 1947 memoir L'Espece humaine, Robert Antelme (1917-1990) is a central figure in the history of the European response to the Nazi concentration camps. In this first study in any language to be devoted to Antelme's work, Martin Crowley reveals the author's vital yet insufficiently recognized influence on recent thought in France and elsewhere about such questions as the nature of ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Accidental Agents

    Ecological Politics Beyond the Human

    by Martin Crowley ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is enmeshed with the existence and actions of every kind of other being is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has brought forth an urgent need to rethink understandings of human action. One response holds that the transformations necessary to tackle today’s crises will emerge from the distinctive capacity of human beings to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Accidental Agents

    Ecological Politics Beyond the Human

    by Martin Crowley ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is enmeshed with the existence and actions of every kind of other being is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has brought forth an urgent need to rethink understandings of human action. One response holds that the transformations necessary to tackle today’s crises will emerge from the distinctive capacity of human beings to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The new pornographies

    Explicit sex in recent French fiction and film

    by Victoria Best, Martin Crowley ...
    The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed the striking advance of pornography into the Western cultural mainstream. Symptomatic of this development has been the use by writers, artists, and film-makers of the imagery and aesthetics of pornography, in works which have, often on this basis, achieved considerable international success. Amongst these artists are a number of French authors and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Fletcher McKenzie and the Passage to Whole

    by Gary Savage, Lily Beaulieu, Ella Leo, Hailey Lebrecque, Liam Martin, Alex Breton, Jack Caron, Charlotte Crowley ...
    Fletcher McKenzie is no ordinary 14-year-old from western Maine. He is going to inherit his family's business in less than four years. But first he has to save not only the business itself but both his parents. Fletcher's adventures start when he notices a mysterious ancient portrait of Mollyockett, a Pequawket Indian who lived in the 1700s, hanging in his parent's bedroom. Her eyes seem to come ... Read more

    $11.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Never Say I

    Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

    by Michael Lucey, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the social and literary innovation of works by Marcel Proust, André Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers’ production of a first-person voice in which matters related to same-sex sexuality ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • After Bataille

    Sacrifice, Exposure, Community

    by Patrick Ffrench ...
    Author of the obscene narrative Story of the Eye and of works of heretical philosophy such as Inner Experience, Georges Bataille (1897-1962) is one of the most powerful and secretly influential French thinkers of the last century. His work is driven by a compulsion to communicate an experience which exceeds the limits of communicative exchange, and also constitutes a sustained focus on the nature ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Extreme In-between (politics and Literature)

    Jean Paulhan's Place in the Twentieth Century

    by Anna-Louise Milne ...
    "Frequently referred to as the eminence grise of French literature in the interwar years, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) was not just the editor responsible for giving writers as varied as Francis Ponge and Jean-Paul Sartre their first start in the pages of the renowned Nouvelle Revue Francaise. He also produced a substantial body of work of astonishing eclecticism. From dense, quasi-scientific texts on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • George Sand and Autobiography

    by J.A. Hiddleston ...
    "This book discusses George Sand's autobiography ""Histoire de ma Vie"" from a variety of perspectives - thematic, structural and stylistic - and examines the often contradictory images of the author/narrator that emerge, in particular, from Sand's confused and ambivalent attitude to her gender. At each point, Sand's intriguing work is placed in the context of modern autobiographical and feminist ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Surfacing the Politics of Desire

    Literature, Feminism and Myth

    by Rajeshwari S. Vallury ...
    A particular model of masculine desire has traditionally been evoked in an effort to understand the subordinate role of women in male-authored fiction. Because of this, the belief that male-authored texts are unfailingly built upon the denial of feminine difference has come to dominate many aspects of literary studies. "Surfacing" the Politics of Desire re-examines the "myths" of masculine desire ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty

    by Bradley Stephens ...
    "The arch-Romantic Victor Hugo (1802-85) and the Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) are widely perceived to have little in common beyond their canonical status. However, responding to Sartre's often overlooked fascination with Hugo, Bradley Stephens cuts through generic divisions to argue that significant parallels between the two writers have been neglected. Stephens argues ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Angelic Echoes

    Hervé Guibert and Company

    by Ralph Sarkonak ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD