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Leonardo Sciascia’s French Authors
Sciascia frequently alludes to French authors, and is often taken to have a close relationship with French literature in general. However, academic critics have never given this …
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq is a French author whose profile in the English-speaking world is unusually high. He is an author who has put the humour back into the Absurd, without losing any …
Julien Green, Diariste Et Essayiste
Cet ouvrage constitue les actes du Colloque International, 'Julien Green, Diariste et Essayiste', qui a eu lieu a la National University of Ireland, Maynooth, en avril 2003, sous …
Viva Pinter
In his Nobel speech, entitled Art, Truth and Politics, Harold Pinter explained how he was fighting against the «tapestry of lies». It is indeed those daily lies, lies of love or of …
The Beautiful and the Monstrous
The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers …
European Intertexts
European Intertexts is the first fruit of an ongoing collaborative study aiming to challenge the isolationism of much critical work on English literature by exploring the …
Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities
The notion of citizenship is part of a national collective memory and a memory of individuals belonging to a specific geographical, historical and cultural context. The volume …
Language Practices and Identity Construction by Multilingual Speakers of French L2
This book presents six new studies on identity construction in the speech of older adolescents and young adults learning French. It takes a sociolinguistic approach to acquisition. …
Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing
Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores …
Readers, Writers, Salonnières
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers …
Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s Writing
This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women’s writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc’s L’Asphyxie …
Remembering the (Post)Colonial Self
The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In …