"Drawing upon poststructuralist theories of nationalism and national identity developed by such writers as Etienne Balibar, Emmanuel Levinas, Julia Kristeva. Antonio Negri, and Slavoj Zizek, Renaissance scholar William J. Kennedy argues that the Perrarchan sonnet serves as a sit…
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.
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"This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much resea…
'Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours à l'esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais énormément?' What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) c…
