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  • The Play of Light

    Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and Friends

    by Ann Smock ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.Drawing from five contemporary French poets-Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, Danielle Collobert, Anne Portugal, and Jacques Jouet-Ann Smock juxtaposes them and provides a milieu suitable for philosophical reflection on identity, on not ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Form and Love in the Poetry of Jacques Roubaud

    by Thea Petrou ...
    Series Book 148 - Modern French Identities
    Can love poetry be the site of a creative partnership? When a poem is written by the male poet for the woman he loves, both addressed to her and taking her as its object, how does – how can – she interact with it?This book represents a foray into the love poetry of Jacques Roubaud, tracing a lifetime of writing from the ardour of first love to the pain of grief and loss. The author brings Roubaud ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

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  • Symbolism

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    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1971, this work provides a helpful introduction to the French Symbolism movement. After an introduction to the defining ideas of the movement, it explores five key Symbolist writers: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé and Valéry. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of Symbolism across Europe.This book will be of interest to those studying nineteenth-century ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Proust

    Edited by Richard Bales ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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  • Understanding French poetry : Charles Baudelaire

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  • The Proustian Fabric

    Associations of Memory

    by Christie McDonald ...
    The association of ideas became the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis, informed the nascent semiology of Saussure, and characterized the literary works of Sterne, Joyce, Woolf, and especially Marcel Proust. The author of Remembrance of Things Past, acutely aware of how philosophical, historical, and narrative writing intersected, gave years of thinking and planning to his multivolume ... Read more

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  • Proust and the Visual

    Edited by Nathalie Aubert ...
    Series Book 2 - Studies in Visual Culture
    Proust and the Visual is an edited volume of essays written by Proustian specialists, concerned with a rich phenomenological category, the "visual" whose prominent role in the novel is at the heart of its modernity. The "visual" is defined as manifesting in the image not only space, but also time. The "visual" is considered as a category that delineates the conditions of possibility of all ... Read more

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  • Photobiography

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  • The Art of the Text

    Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media

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    The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual studies, the volume explores the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the later ... Read more

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  • Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes

    by Prof. Willard Bohn ...
    Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire's second major collection of poetry. Composed between 1913 and 1918, the nineteen poems examined here fall into two main groups: the experimental poetry and the war poetry. They also provide glimpses of the poet's personal history, from his affair with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon to his engagement to Madeleine Pagès and his marriage ... Read more

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