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The Snow Queen
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
Lectures croisées
Essays by Alan Raitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in...
The Canterville Ghost
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
Kidnapped
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.
by PONS Editorial Team
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Optimized for use on the Kindle, this title is written for travelers, students, and lovers of language who will soon find this dictionary to be indispensable. This eBook features 15,000 words and concepts sorted into 13 clearly formatted and color-coded categories. These categories are easily navigable...
Parody and Palimpsest
Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Parody and Palimpsest: Intertextuality, Language, and the Ludic in the Novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint adds to the emerging body of work on intertextuality through expansion of critical examinations of the novels of this award-winning author, presenting him as the ultimate magister ludi. Sarah L....
Critical Terrains
French and British Orientalisms
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady...
by Perry Gethner, Perry Gethner, Allison Stedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.
Jacques Chessex
Calvinism and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside...
The Sixth Sense
Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging...
Marcel Proust in the Light of William James
In Search of a Lost Source
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
For a century now, scholars have searched for the “source” of Marcel Proust’s startlingly innovative novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Some have pointed to Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, or Paul Sollier. Others have referenced the novels of Henry James. But no one has focused on the more...
Resentment and the Right
French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000 examines a century-long struggle between cultural spokesmen on the extreme right and left to dominate and define the concept of “the intellectual.” This struggle began with the introduction of the “intellectual” during...
Medieval Autographies
The "I" of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker...
Palimpsestic Memory
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The interconnections between histories and memories of the Holocaust, colonialism and extreme violence in post-war French and Francophone fiction and film provide the central focus of this book. It proposes a new model of ‘palimpsestic memory’, which the author defines as the condensation of different...