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  • Women's Writing in Twenty-First-Century France

    Life as Literature

    by Gill Rye, Amaleena Damlé ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    Women's Writing in Twenty-First Century France is the first book-length publication on women-authored literature of this period, and comprises a collection of challenging critical essays that engage with the themes, trends and issues, and with the writers and their texts, of the first decade of the twenty-first century. ... Read more

    $21.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motherhood in Literature and Culture

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe

    Edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, Abigail Lee Six ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Strange Adventures

    Women’s Individuation in the Works of Pierrette Fleutiaux

    by Elizabeth Sercombe, Gill Rye ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
    Strange Adventures examines portrayals of womanhood in the works of prize-winning French author Pierrette Fleutiaux. Fleutiaux’s refreshing pictures of womanhood offer insights into how women can become more whole, substantial and free in themselves and in their relationships, as well as how they can contribute to the external world through their creativity and leadership. The study demonstrates ... Read more

    $92.59 USD

  • Feminism, Writing and the Media in Spain

    Ana María Matute, Rosa Montero and Lucía Etxebarria

    by Gill Rye, Mazal Oaknín ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
    This book explores the different treatment of writing by women andwriting by men in twenty-first-century Spain. Focusing on contemporarySpanish authors Ana María Matute (1926–2014), Rosa Montero (1952–),and Lucía Etxebarria (1966–), the author examines how Spanish womenwriters are marketed in Spain and, in particular, how current marketingstrategies reinforce traditional structures of femininity ... Read more

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    Apocalyptic Desires

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    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

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  • Helene Cixous

    Authorship, Autobiography and Love

    by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice.Susan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's theoretical position, and in particular her distinctive theory of an 'écriture féminine'. She discusses the development of Cixous's literary ... Read more

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  • 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

    $64.99 USD

  • Hélène Cixous

    Critical Impressions

    by Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca ...
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  • 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

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  • Maryse Conde and the Space of Literature

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    "The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Conde has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author's work has attracted much critical attention in the United States, it is the fictional works that have been the focus of this attention with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. ... Read more

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  • Still Loitering

    Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers

    Edited by Valentina Gosetti, Alistair Rolls ...
    Series Book 28 - Romanticism and after in France / Le Romantisme et après en France
    In late October 2017, the profoundly sad news of Ross Chambers’s passing reached Australia. Friends and colleagues scattered around the globe mourned the loss of a person of great ‘humanity and humility’, one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. This book is a tribute to Chambers’s life and work and to his legacy among scholars in the global French studies, comparative literature and ... Read more

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  • Echo's Voice

    The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude

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    Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. She was by no means alone in this. Cixous's plays, along with those of ... Read more

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