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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Constructed Languages

    Edited by Joseph W. Windsor, Alison Long ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook represents the first structured, academic overview of constructed languages, including not only well-known examples like Esperanto and Klingon, but also those created for educational, philosophical, and communication purposes. Divided into parts covering engineered languages, auxiliary languages, artistic languages, constructed languages in education, and constructed languages in ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Twilight of Russian Nobility: The Story of Baron Anatoly von Delwig

    by Alexei von Delwig, Daria Shliamina ...
    Anatoly von Delwig's enthralling memoir plunges deep into the tumultuous heart of Russia's history. In "Twilight of Russian Nobility: the Story of Baron of Anatoly von Delwig", he unveils the dramatic transition from the pre-revolutionary ideals and the golden age of Russia to the harrowing realities of War Communism, the Gulag system, and all subsequent chapters of its troubled history. Penned ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • French Feminisms 1975 and After

    New Readings, New Texts

    Edited by Margaret Atack, Alison S. Fell, Diana Holmes, Imogen Long ...
    Series Book 127 - Modern French Identities
    This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and textuality, Hélène Cixous and others became internationally recognised for ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

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    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    by Angela Kershaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Incident at Antioch / L’Incident d’Antioche

    A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragédie en trois actes

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Susan Spitzer ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly serious emotional and intellectual drama to surreal comic interlude, the work features statesmen, workers, and revolutionaries struggling to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Age of Confession/L'Âge de la confession

    by Neil Bissoondath ...
    Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we reveal a little about our experiences, dreams, fears, desires, and fantasies. Unlike governments, which try to control and simplify narrative, fiction writers use ... Read more

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  • Cesaire, Cesairology, and Universal Humanism

    by Zekeh Sua Gbotokuma Ph.D. ...
    Cesaire, Cesairology, and Universal Humanism (in English) Csaire, Csairologie et Humanisme Universel (en franais) By Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Editor/Translator Book Summary This two-part, twelve chapter, and bilingual work (English-French) is the Gospel of Negritude according to the world renowned poet and politician Aim Csaire of Martinique. The work is also a vivid account of the busy life and works ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Modernité en transit - Modernity in Transit

    Edited by Richard Dubé, Pascal Gin, Walter Moser, Alvaro Pires ...
    Series series Cultural Transfers
    En 1979, Jean-François Lyotard a articulé la condition postmoderne, annonçant la fin de la modernité. Mais la modernité nous tient encore et se réinvente dans des nouvelles périodisations. Il nous incombe de reprendre la réflexion sur ce paradigme à la fois historique, culturel et social, et ceci, à partir de notre condition de « puînés » de la modernité. Tel est le programme de réflexion de cet ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Les Belles Étrangères

    Canadians in Paris

    by Jane Koustas ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Bourdieu and Literature

    by John R.W. Speller ...
    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard ... Read more

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  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

    by F. Elizabeth Dahab ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Poetics of the Antilles

    Poetry, History and Philosophy in the Writings of Perse, Césaire, Fanon and Glissant

    by Jean Khalfa, Peter Collier ...
    Series Book 124 - Modern French Identities
    The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared, as the end point rather than the origin of a process which was inseparably poetic and political. It entailed an aesthetics of ... Read more

    $74.69 USD