Territoires et terres d'histoires - perspectives, horizons, jardins secrets dans la littérature française d'aujourd'hui est un recueil qui se veut panoramique et explorateur, donnant sa part à l'analyse approfondie aussi bien qu'au plaisir des découvertes et des surprises. Les c…
"Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression." "Through readings of fictions, e…
"Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression." "Through readings of fictions, e…
This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary producti…
This introduction to and analysis of women's writing in contemporary France includes both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. It situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the trends and issues concerning modern French literary producti…
"The Delirium of Praise examines a group of five twentieth-century French intellectuals - Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Pierre Klossowski - and their laudatory essays about each other. Structured as a circular series of exchanges, the b…
"In their rebellion against Western civilization, the European surrealists were contesting their own society. That was otherwise serious for their Black counterparts who were subjected to severe restraints and harsh prejudices from this very society. Above all, those Black surre…
This book primarily addresses one question: Why do Americans--and American authors in particular--profess such moral sentiments while engaging so little in the traditionally moralistic literary genres of maxim and fable? As an American who has spent a good deal of time studying …
This book offers a comparative reading of the ways in which moral issues surface in French and American literature.
'I sincerely believe that at the origin of teaching such as this we must always locate a fantasy'. This provoking remark was the starting point of the four lecture courses Roland Barthes taught as professor of literary semiology at the Collège de Franc.