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	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 33 The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time by Anne Freadman 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 customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiographical story-telling, Anne Freadman's study brings the richness of "the genre question" to the fore, shedding a fresh light on this ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 32 Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature by Eva Sansavior 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 the United States, it is her fictional works that have been the focus of this attention, with these predominantly read in the light of political themes such as identity and resistance. In these intelligent and sensitive readings, Eva ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 31 Dreams of Lovers and Lies of Poets: Poetry, Knowledge, and Desire in the Roman de la Rose by Sylvia Huot The Roman de la Rose explicitly offers an 'art of love', while also repeatedly asserting that both the experience of love is impossible to put into words. An examination of the intertextual density of the Rose, with its citations and adaptations of a range of Latin authors, shows that the discourse of bodily desire, pleasure, and trauma emerges indirectly from the juxtaposition and conflation of sources. The Ovide moralisé, in turn, ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 30 Syntactic Borrowing in Contemporary French: A Linguistic Analysis of News Translation by Mairi McLaughlin It is widely held that the large-scale translation of international news from English will lead to changes in French syntax. For the first time this assumption is put to the test using extensive fieldwork carried out in an international news agency and a corpus of translated news agency dispatches. The linguistic analysis of three syntactic structures in the translations is complemented by an investigation of the effects of a range of factors ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 29 Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism by Anna Kemp In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwoman-in-the-making or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic of Frances relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves. Drawing on ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 28 The Choreography of Modernism in France: La Danseuse 1830-1930 by Julie Townsend Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 27 Personal Effects: Reading the Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff by Sonia Wilson Five months before her death of tuberculosis in 1884, Marie Bashkirtseff, an aspiring artist and a would-be mondaine, composed a preface to her personal diary. In it, she brazenly declared that in the event of her early death her diary was to be published. Three years later, a truncated version of the diary appeared. Translated into English, championed by Barrès and Gladstone, taken up by young diarists from France to the US, the diary ... Hardback. Price GB £45.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 26 The Syllables of Time: Proust and the History of Reading by Teresa Whitington This study reveals reading to be one of the main activities to occupy the inhabitants of the world of Marcel Prousts novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Characters do not just read books but have access to the journals and newspapers of a rapidly ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 25 Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Jennifer Yee In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial empire second only to Britains. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient. There is, however, a body of works that eludes such a simple categorisation, offering glimpses of colonial resistance, of a critique of ... Hardback. Price GB £40.00
	Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 24 Balzac and the Model of Painting by Diana Knight Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honoré de Balzac's Comédie humaine which, from Marx to Lukács to Roland Barthes's enormously influential S/Z (1970), has been a key literary work for critical debates around French realism. In a series of close readings, Diana Knight explores Barthes's 'model of painting' the ... Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £40.00

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