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  • Counterpractice

    Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism

    by Rakhee Balaram ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81). It considers women’s art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s – Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • Wounded Galaxies 1968

    Geopolitics and Culture Wars

    by Joan Hawkins, Tariq Ali, David Andrews, Rakhee Balaram, Maria Bucur-Deckard, Stephen Buttes, Anna Chichi, Pete Hamill0, Tom Hayden1, Matthew Hubbell2, Seth Kim-Cohen3, Annea Lockwood4, Scott MacDonald5, Greil Marcus6, Timothy S. Murphy7, Kristoffer S. Noheden8, William "bil" Paul9, Marielle Pelissero0, Elijah Pritchett1, Chris Reynolds2, Davis Schneiderman3, Ward Shelley4, Christopher Sieving5, Samuel Smucker6, Laurie Stone7, Katharine Streip8, McKenzie Wark9, Alex Wermer-Colan0, Laurel Westrup1, Eric Zobel2 ...
    Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • Marguerite Duras

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  • Literature and Painting In Quebec

    From Imagery to Identity

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    This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent images and themes within these creations through the most significant periods in the ... Read more

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  • The New Bibliopolis

    French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914

    by Willa Z. Silverman ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define ... Read more

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  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

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  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

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    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard ... Read more

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