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Concentrationary Art
Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing...
The Valley Of Fear
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 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.
The Great Shadow
Bilingual Edition (English – French)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 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.
Isotopias
Places and Spaces in French War Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This monograph is the first book to examine places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These places and spaces are presented as literary isotopias, or fictional «worlds», and analysed in a selective corpus of thirty-three novelists and forty-two examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This translation, first published in 1993, presents a little-known medieval romance to readers who do not know Old French, or who are generally unfamiliar with the literature of the Middle Ages.
Probably composed between 1190 and 1220, the major interest of Amadas and Ydoine to modern readers...
Love Cures
Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal—to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are expressed...
Exchanges in Exoticism
Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered...
The Black Arrow
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.
Madeleines
Elegant French Tea Cakes to Bake and Share
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The petite shell-shaped cakes known as madeleines are versatile, pretty, and absolutely delicious. Made famous by Marcel Proust in his novel In Search of Lost Time, this classic French treat is now loved the world over. Beautifully illustrated and lovingly researched, Madeleines features recipes for...
by Lindsay Stotts
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Learn the Secrets Behind Baking the Perfect Macaron
Have you ever had the desire to try and conquer the famous French confection Macarons, but felt intimidated by their legendary fickleness?
Well fret no more! The Quick Start Guide to Macarons will be take you step by step through the...
by Richard Olney
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Richard Olney was considered a culinary genius for his ability to elevate cooking to a practical art. He wrote evocatively about the beauty and pleasure in cooking by focusing on preparing simple foods well. This new edition of his classic cookbook includes a fresh cover, new interior design, and...
The Literary Channel
The Inter-National Invention of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2009
The Literary Channel defines a crucial transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. During the first two centuries of the genre's history, Britain and France were locked in political, economic, and military struggle. The period also saw British and French writers,...
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter
Eighteenth-Century British and French Literary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Mind, Body, Motion, Matter investigates the relationship between the eighteenth century’s two predominant approaches to the natural world – mechanistic materialism and vitalism – in the works of leading British and French writers such as Daniel Defoe, William Hogarth, Laurence Sterne, the third...
Ricoeur on Time and Narrative
An Introduction to Temps et récit
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
“The object of this book,” writes William C. Dowling in his preface, “is to make the key concepts of Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative available to readers who might have felt bewildered by the twists and turns of its argument.” The sources of puzzlement are, he notes, many. For some, it...