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  • Lonely Planet Experience Korea

    by Simon Richmond, Ann Babe, Marco Ferrarese, Phillip Tang, Charles Usher ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    See Korea in a new light with this Lonely Planet Experience guide, featuring insider tips from our team of travel experts so you can create your dream itinerary.Korea is a playground for adventurers and beyond must-see sights like Gyeongbokgung Palace and Gamcheon Culture Village there are unique corners, epic views and unexpected spaces waiting to dazzle you. Our on-the-ground experts have ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonely Planet Korea

    by Ann Babe, Esther Carlstone, Jennifer Chang, Marco Ferrarese, Simon Richmond, Phillip Tang, Charles Usher ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Dive headfirst into Korea and discover everything you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime.Korea rewards curiosity – find vibrant street-food markets near peaceful temple courtyards and forested mountains alongside bustling cities. Our on-the-ground experts have eaten a seafood feast at Sokcho Tourist Fish Market, sailed through Hallyeohaesang National Park, and climbed Gitdae-bong for ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonely Planet Seoul

    by Ann Babe, Esther Carlstone, Jennifer Chang, Simon Richmond, Phillip Tang, Charles Usher ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Dive headfirst into Seoul and discover everything you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime.Seoul rewards curiosity – find ancient palaces alongside futuristic architecture, and neon-lit streets that lead to late-night food markets. Our on-the-ground experts have made kimchi at a cooking class at O'ngo, joined a guided kayak paddle at Ttukseom Hangang Park, and gazed at the city from the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exterranean

    Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene

    by Phillip John Usher ...
    Series series Meaning Systems
    Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought.By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

    Text, Performance, Theory

    by Sara Beam, Christian Biet, Alison Calhoun, Fabien Cavaillé, Sybile Chevallier-Micki, Caroline Gates, Elizabeth Guild, Richard Hillman, John D. Lyons, Andreea Marculescu, Corinne Noirot, Stephanie O’Hara, Antónia Szabari, Phillip Usher, Ellen Welch ...
    The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France

    Negotiating Shifting Forms

    by Emily E. Thompson, JoAnn DellaNeva, Sheila ffolliott, Amy Graves Monroe, David LaGuardia, Kathleen Loysen, Dora E. Polachek, Marian Rothstein, Phillip John Usher, Colette H. Winn0, Cathy Yandell1 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to refashion the past. This ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

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  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Opera in the Age of Rousseau

    Music, Confrontation, Realism

    by David Charlton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Knowing Poetry

    Verse in Medieval France from the "Rose" to the "Rhétoriqueurs"

    by Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay ...
    In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

    Edited by Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Marguerite De Navarre

    A Literary Queen

    by Rouben Cholakian ...
    This is a shortened reworking of the 2006 biography Marguerite de Navarre, made more accessible here without the scholarly trappings. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD