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    Julius Caesar

    by William Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shana Cooper ...
    Narrated by a full cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 4 min

    TOO MUCH POWER IN ONE MAN’S HANDSJulius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night full of alarming sights and ominous portents, Cassius persuades Caesar’s friend Brutus to help him with a momentous task: assassinate Caesar for the good of the Republic. ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France

    Habit’s Demise

    by Shana Cooperstein ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power.Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of modern art and the exigencies of modern life: landscape painting and picturesque tourism, industrial ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Love’s Labor’s Lost

    by William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...
    Narrated by a full cast, Alex Jennings, Alan Howard, Jonathan Tafler, Greg Wise, Samantha Bond, Emma Fielding ...
    Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 26 min

    A play replete with puns and double-entendres, this is one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most lighthearted.The young king of Navarre and three of his courtiers have vowed to lock themselves away for three years of study and fasting, and to forswear the company of women for this period. No sooner is their vow made than it is tested, however, as the princess of France and three of her ladies arrive ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

    by Leslie Hill ...
    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

    $60.99 USD

  • Realism in the Age of Impressionism

    Painting and the Politics of Time

    by Marnin Young ...
    The late 1870s and early 1880s were watershed years in the history of French painting. As outgoing economic and social structures were being replaced by a capitalist, measured time, Impressionist artists sought to create works that could be perceived in an instant, capturing the sensations of rapidly transforming modern life. Yet a generation of artists pushed back against these changes, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • Writing with a Vengeance

    The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

    by Carol A. Mossman ...
    Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • 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

    $49.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Proust

    Edited by Richard Bales ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Post-War French Popular Music: Cultural Identity and the Brel-Brassens-Ferré Myth

    by Adeline Cordier ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have been described as the epitome of chanson, and of 'Frenchness'. But there is more to the trio than a musical trinity: this new study examines the factors of cultural and national identity that have held ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Dream of Absolutism

    Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

    by Hall Bjørnstad ...
    The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV.What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do?In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Text

    Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media

    by Susan Harrow ...
    Series series Studies in Visual Culture
    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

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus