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History and Ideology in Proust
This critical reinterpretation of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past offers a fresh, socio-historical analysis of the novel. Departing from the more formalist and rhetorical …
Surrealist Collage in Text and Image
Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pasting ready made material, and as a subversive and creative strategy. She considers …
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were …
Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820
In this discerning study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J. Denby sheds new light on Enlightenment thought and sensibility. He reveals how …
The Love Aesthetics of Maurice Scève
This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Scève from a phenomenological viewpoint. It calls into question the traditional critical view of Scève as a poet consumed by the …
The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance
This 1991 book examines the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the literature of the French Renaissance by exploring the issues of gender, the body, and repression in …
Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony
This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in Le deuxième sexe …
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d’art that proliferated in French literary texts during the …
Narration and Description in the French Realist Novel
This new study of the nineteenth-century French realist novel focuses on the difference, and fundamental incompatibility, between the narrative and the descriptive modes of …
Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers reflects the rich …
Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis
This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and …
The Poetry of François Villon
This book casts new light on the life and work of François Villon, one of the most famous but least understood poets of the later Middle Ages. Traditionally Villon has been viewed …