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Voices of Pain, Cries of Silence
In this groundbreaking study of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah, Gary D. Mole engages with an extensive corpus of poetry by more than forty poets, all of whom were active …
Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia Teseida Delle Nozze Di Emilia
The first epic poem written in Italian is the Teseida delle nozze di Emilia (Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia) by Giovanni Boccaccio, the well-known author of the Decameron. …
The Modernist Human
Modernist poetry, in its fragmented form, continues to intrigue readers. In this sequel to A Flowering Word (Peter Lang, 2000), Noriko Takeda clarifies the modernist schism’s …
The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession, and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett
This study focuses on the deceptive roles of three motifs in Beckett's plays. It discusses the contradictory doubleness of the Beckettian life and the dynamic interactions of its …
Paradigms of Memory
The first collective study in English of the novels of Patrick Modiano (b. 1945), these essays approach the question of memory - and its interaction with history - in Modiano's …
Shakespeare, Rabelais, and the Comical-Historical / Cathleen T. Mcloughlin.
This intertextual reading of William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I & II with Fran ois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel suggests that sufficient evidence exists to question the …
Constance de Salm, Her Influence and Her Circle in the Aftermath of the French Revolution
Largely forgotten during the second half of the nineteenth century and throughout most of the twentieth century, Constance de Salm (Constance-Marie de Théis, Mme Pipelet de Leury, …
Nerea and I
Laura Mintegi's Nerea and I provides a unique viewpoint from which to examine women's role in the world of Basque nationalism, and Linda White's translation gives us a rare example …
Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice
"A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured." The work of Friedrich Holderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this …
Complexity in Maurice Blanchot's Fiction
Two Plays by Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate …
Parody and Palimpsest
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 …