French Books


Sarraute: Le Planetarium (CRITICAL GUIDES TO FRENCH TEXTS)Sarraute: Le Planetarium (CRITICAL GUIDES TO FRENCH TEXTS)
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Chretien de Troyes: Perceval (Le Conte du Graal) (CRITICAL GUIDES TO FRENCH TEXTS)Chretien de Troyes: Perceval (Le Conte du Graal) (CRITICAL GUIDES TO FRENCH TEXTS)
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Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War (1954D62) (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War (1954D62) (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
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Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war...
Breadfruit or Chestnut?: Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)Breadfruit or Chestnut?: Gender Construction in the French Caribbean Novel (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
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Breadfruit or Chestnut? examines gender construction comparatively across the fiction of...
A Concordance of Pablo Picasso's French WritingsA Concordance of Pablo Picasso's French Writings
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This comprehensive concordance is a necessary accompaniment to understanding the multiple values...


Les Discours Feminins Dans LA Litterature Postmoderne Au Quebec (EmTexts) (French Edition)Les Discours Feminins Dans LA Litterature Postmoderne Au Quebec (EmTexts) (French Edition)
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A collection of theoretical, poetic, analytical and critical texts which offers a range of...
Francophone Culture And The Postcolonial Fascination With Ethnic Crimes And Colonial Aura (Studies in French Civilization)Francophone Culture And The Postcolonial Fascination With Ethnic Crimes And Colonial Aura (Studies in French Civilization)
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This book demonstrates how both postcolonial France and the Maghreb cultural identity, and...
The Loves of Sundry Philosophers and Other Great Men/Madame De Villedieu's Les Amours Des Grands Hommes: A Translation of Madame De Villedieu's Les ... Grands Hommes (Studies in French Literature)The Loves of Sundry Philosophers and Other Great Men/Madame De Villedieu's Les Amours Des Grands Hommes: A Translation of Madame De Villedieu's Les ... Grands Hommes (Studies in French Literature)
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Klein's book provides the opportunity to read in English the innovative narratives of an...
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to RevoltAlbert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt
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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses philosophy, literature, politics, and...
The Art of Medieval French RomanceThe Art of Medieval French Romance
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Douglas Kelly provides a comprehensive and historically valid analysis of the art of medieval...


Albert Camus and the Literature of RevoltAlbert Camus and the Literature of Revolt
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A Victor Hugo EncyclopediaA Victor Hugo Encyclopedia
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Though he wrote more than a century ago, French author Victor Hugo (1802-1885) continues to...
The Rabelais EncyclopediaThe Rabelais Encyclopedia
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The French humanist Rabelais (ca. 1483-1553) was the greatest French writer of the Renaissance...
Claudel. Le Point De Vue De Dieu (centurion) (French Edition)Claudel. Le Point De Vue De Dieu (centurion) (French Edition)
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Quelques Pages Sur Leon Bloy (French Edition)Quelques Pages Sur Leon Bloy (French Edition)
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Alain-fournier, Le Paysage D'une Ame (French Edition)Alain-fournier, Le Paysage D'une Ame (French Edition)
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Entretiens Sur ''le Neveu De Rameau" (nizet) (French Edition)Entretiens Sur ''le Neveu De Rameau" (nizet) (French Edition)
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Barbey D'aurevilly Documents 5, Les Maitres: Byron- De Maistre, Stendhal - W Scott, Balzac - Shakespeare/ Lettres a Des Amis (French Edition)Barbey D'aurevilly Documents 5, Les Maitres: Byron- De Maistre, Stendhal - W Scott, Balzac - Shakespeare/ Lettres a Des Amis (French Edition)
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The Art Of Criticism Of Theophile Gautier (French Edition)The Art Of Criticism Of Theophile Gautier (French Edition)Les Plus Belles Pages De Restif De La Bretonne. (French Edition)Les Plus Belles Pages De Restif De La Bretonne. (French Edition)
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The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett and CortazarThe Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar
An investigation of the novel, with particular reference to the works of Balzac, Beckett and...
Criminal Practices: Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90sCriminal Practices: Symons on Crime Writing 60s to 90s
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This is a collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays by the 1990 Cartier Diamond...
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesThe Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesAccess to History France in RevolutionAccess to History France in Revolution
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The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS- and A-level...
Diderot and SterneDiderot and Sterne

Ireland and France, a Bountiful FriendshipIreland and France, a Bountiful Friendship
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No one interested in Irish studies during the past 30 years will have missed the work of Patrick...
Shakespeare in French Theory: King of ShadowsShakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows
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At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard...
Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
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This book analyses Irene Némirovsky?s literary production in its relationship to the...
Poèmes, Pièces, Prose: Introduction à l'analyse de textes littéraires françaisPoèmes, Pièces, Prose: Introduction à l'analyse de textes littéraires français
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This textbook is a good text to prepare students to use their French language skills to study...
The World's Major LanguagesThe World's Major Languages
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This is the best survey of the world's languages that I have come across. Although it is...

Beckett at 100: Revolving it AllBeckett at 100: Revolving it All
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The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist...
Philosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in ProustPhilosophy As Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust
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Philosophy as Fiction seeks to account for the peculiar power of philosophical literature by...
Roland Barthes: The Figures of WritingRoland Barthes: The Figures of Writing
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The first serious analysis of Barthes as a writer with specific aesthetic techniques, this fresh...
Baudelaire and the Art of MemoryBaudelaire and the Art of Memory
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This study is an examination of Charles Baudelaire's (1821-67) art criticism and its...
Soundings in French Caribbean Writing 1950-2000: The Shock of Space and TimeSoundings in French Caribbean Writing 1950-2000: The Shock of Space and Time
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Since 1950, French Caribbean writers have attracted international attention to their work and to...

Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothï¿1/2que Nationale de France, MS Franï¿1/2ais 146Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothï¿1/2que Nationale de France, MS Franï¿1/2ais 146
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The manuscript Paris, Bibliothe'que Nationale, fonds francais 146, one of the most sumptuous...
Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretation of Classic Greek Texts (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretation of Classic Greek Texts (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
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While much has been written about the mystical French philosopher, Simone Weil, rarely has she...
Mallarmï¿1/2 and Debussy: Unheard Music, Unseen Text (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)Mallarmï¿1/2 and Debussy: Unheard Music, Unseen Text (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
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This book examines afresh the web of similarities and differences between music and poetry using...
The Broken Angel: Myth and Method in Valery (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)The Broken Angel: Myth and Method in Valery (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)The Essays of Montaigne: A Critical ExplorationThe Essays of Montaigne: A Critical Exploration

From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of ArchaeologyFrom Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology
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In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria,...
From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and NovelFrom the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
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For the most part, I sincerely liked this book for its clear style of writing -- meaning the...
The Book of Questions: El, or the Last BookThe Book of Questions: El, or the Last BookFrom the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes ReaderFrom the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes Reader
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"To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of...
Prisoner of LovePrisoner of Love
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This book is absolutely essential to any understanding of the Palestinian situation. It is also...

De l'androgynie dans les Rougon-Macquart et deux autres études sur Zola (American University Studies II, Romance Languages and Literature, Vol 22) (French Edition)De l'androgynie dans les Rougon-Macquart et deux autres études sur Zola (American University Studies II, Romance Languages and Literature, Vol 22) (French Edition)Madame de CharriÃ..re et la révolution des idées (The age of revolution and romanticism) (French Edition)Madame de CharriÃ..re et la révolution des idées (The age of revolution and romanticism) (French Edition)Politics and Literature (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)Politics and Literature (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
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The role of politics in literary creation and interpretation is discussed for the French...
The Broken Angel: Myth and Method in Valery (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)The Broken Angel: Myth and Method in Valery (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)The Essays of Montaigne: A Critical ExplorationThe Essays of Montaigne: A Critical Exploration

From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of ArchaeologyFrom Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology
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In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria,...
From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and NovelFrom the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel
Best Price: $74.99
For the most part, I sincerely liked this book for its clear style of writing -- meaning the...
The Book of Questions: El, or the Last BookThe Book of Questions: El, or the Last BookFrom the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes ReaderFrom the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabes Reader
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"To take the wrong door means indeed to go against the order that presided over the plan of...
Prisoner of LovePrisoner of Love
Best Price: $5.00
This book is absolutely essential to any understanding of the Palestinian situation. It is also...

De l'androgynie dans les Rougon-Macquart et deux autres études sur Zola (American University Studies II, Romance Languages and Literature, Vol 22) (French Edition)De l'androgynie dans les Rougon-Macquart et deux autres études sur Zola (American University Studies II, Romance Languages and Literature, Vol 22) (French Edition)Madame de CharriÃ..re et la révolution des idées (The age of revolution and romanticism) (French Edition)Madame de CharriÃ..re et la révolution des idées (The age of revolution and romanticism) (French Edition)Politics and Literature (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)Politics and Literature (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures)
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The role of politics in literary creation and interpretation is discussed for the French...
Madame Proust: A BiographyMadame Proust: A Biography
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Madame Proust"; a Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan. The...
Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the MaghrebQueer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb
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The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous...

The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of TheoryThe Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
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The Premodern Condition identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and...
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth CenturyThe Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
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THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY is a marvelous book of intellectual history -- specifically...
Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the TruthRousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth
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For Rousseau, "consecrating one's life to the truth" (his personal credo) meant...
AntimemoirsAntimemoirs
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Malraux culture- hero supreme, revolutionary, novelist, Resistance hero, art historian here...
Blind Date: Sex and PhilosophyBlind Date: Sex and Philosophy
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Bringing sex and philosophy together on a blind date, Anne Dufourmantelle's provocative...

Panorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableau De ParisPanorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableau De Paris
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Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten...
Siecle De Louis XIVSiecle De Louis XIV
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Voltaire revolutionized the art of writing history books. This book is one of the showpieces of...
Allusion: A Literary Graft (Theory/Culture)Allusion: A Literary Graft (Theory/Culture)
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Pasco clearly and persuasively explains how literary works may be metaphorically modeled on...
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions)The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions)
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Samuel Beckett's status as possibly the greatest dramatist of the twentieth century is...
Communicating Vessels (French Modernist Library)Communicating Vessels (French Modernist Library)
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What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (1896?1966) does for despair: in its distortions he...

Free Rein (French Modernist Library)Free Rein (French Modernist Library)
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Free Rein is a gathering of seminal essays by André Breton, the foremost figure among the...
The Lost Steps (French Modernist Library)The Lost Steps (French Modernist Library)
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The Lost Steps ( Les Pas perdus ) is André Breton?s first collection of critical and...
Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century FrancePlaying at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France
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Insightful. Dr. Cropper's analysis of the importance of French sport in metaphor has far...
Journal, 1955 - 1962 : Reflections on the French-Algerian WarJournal, 1955 - 1962 : Reflections on the French-Algerian War
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?This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to...
Narrative as Theme: Studies in French FictionNarrative as Theme: Studies in French Fiction
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In literature the very act of narration often constitutes a theme: everyone is familiar with...

Eleazar, Exodus to the WestEleazar, Exodus to the West
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Michel Tournier's Eleazar, Exodus to the West is a modern successor to two seemingly...
Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century FranceManning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France
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" Manning the Margins is provocative, timely, and very original and makes a significant...
Three TalesThree Tales
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This trio of short stories by the author of Madame Bovary consists of "A Simple...
Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
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This early 20th century psychonaut is the latest embodiment of the Poet Maudit, intuitively...
Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of ExperienceMallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience
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In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida...

Rousseau after 200 Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial ColloquiumRousseau after 200 Years: Proceedings of the Cambridge Bicentennial Colloquium
J.-J. Rousseau is the most original, most profound and most controversial of all the great...
Secrets of the Flesh (Radio Collection)Secrets of the Flesh (Radio Collection)
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The story of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who, from her first appearance in Paris salons as a...
Feminist Theory & Simone De Beauvoir (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory)Feminist Theory & Simone De Beauvoir (Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory)
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Toril Moi has rapidly acquired a powerful reputation for her lucid, and controversial...
Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 4)Antonin Artaud : Collected Works (Volume 4)
Drama. This important volume of COLLECTED WORKS includes one of Artaud's most seminal texts,...
Beckett in the Theatre: The Author As Practical Playwright and Director : From Waiting for Godot to Krapp's Last TapeBeckett in the Theatre: The Author As Practical Playwright and Director : From Waiting for Godot to Krapp's Last Tape

Simone de Beauvoir (Women of Ideas series)Simone de Beauvoir (Women of Ideas series)
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Simone de Beauvoir continues to dominate twentieth century feminist theory, yet her work is the...
The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French NarrativeThe Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
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Don't let the title mislead, discourage or intimidate you: the interest and importance of...
Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
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The Mottled Screen: Reading Proust VisuallyThe Mottled Screen: Reading Proust Visually
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The clear-cut distinction between texts (literature) and images (art) has been challenged by a...
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
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This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and...

Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism (Cultural Memory in the Present)Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture...
Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and ModernityExperience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity
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Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways...
The Notebooks of André WalterThe Notebooks of André Walter
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The first complete text of the Andre Gide?s semi-autobiograpical journal, compromising The...
Ecrits Louisianais du Dix-neuvieme Siecle: Nouvelles, Contes et Fables (French Edition)Ecrits Louisianais du Dix-neuvieme Siecle: Nouvelles, Contes et Fables (French Edition)Saint Genet : Actor and MartyrSaint Genet : Actor and Martyr
a selection from the beginning of the first section in Book I:? THE MELODIOUS CHILD DEAD IN...
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