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Marie NDiaye: Inhospitable Fictions [Hardback]
Shirley Jordan (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975851
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 38
At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967–) is the issue of the stranger’s welcome. NDiaye’s fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices wh... .... Learn More -
Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny [Hardback]
Cécile Bishop (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781909662018
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 41
The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cl... .... Learn More -
Dada as Text, Thought and Theory [Hardback]
Stephen Forcer (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975837
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 39
The Dada movement, revered as perhaps the purest form of cultural subversion and provocation in 20th-century Europe, has been a victim of the readiness with which cultural historians have swallowed its own propaganda. Based on ext... .... Learn More -
Variation and Change in French Morphosyntax: The Case of Collective Nouns [Hardback]
Anna Tristram (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975950
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 40
Collective nouns such as majorité or foule have long been of interest to linguists for thei... .... Learn More -
Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude [Hardback]
Mary Noonan (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975509
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 36
Hélène Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The t... .... Learn More -
Stendhal's Less-Loved Heroines: Fiction, Freedom, and the Female [Hardback]
Maria C. Scott (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907975714
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 37
Stendhal's most independent heroines are usually disliked or marginalized by critics. However, when gender-neutral criteria are applied, Mina de Vanghel, Vanina Vanini, Mathilde de La Mole, and Lamiel can all be shown to enact ext... .... Learn More -
Furetière's Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies [Hardback]
Craig Moyes (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907747991
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 34
‘If Furetière (1619-1688) hadn’t been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn’t been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Académie Française, it is unlikely that we would... .... Learn More -
The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time [Hardback]
Anne Freadman (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781906540937
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 33
Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her ‘livres-souvenirs’, are far from being autobiographies in the c... .... Learn More -
Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature [Hardback]
Eva Sansavior (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781906540944
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 32
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author’s work has attracted much critical attention in th... .... Learn More -
The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry: Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs du Père Ubu [Hardback]
Marieke Dubbelboer (Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781907747984
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 35
Paradox and provocation were essential features of all of the work of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). His non-conformist attitude, whether employed to subvert literary or artistic conventions or to scrutinize social and political issues... .... Learn More