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Deals with the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, this title brings together essays on a range of writers from different parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, and Salim Matar.
French language edition of Candide in Denmark, the continuation of the adventures of Voltaire's famous creation, with introduction and notes in French. -- .
Offers a representative selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. This title also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help make their poetry as accessible as possible to a modern reader.
This full-length study of Hermann Schotten's life and work is a companion to Peter Macardle's edition of the Confabulationes. -- .
Explores the implications of scientific discourse on Russian concepts of mental illness and national health -- .
This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory. -- .
Confabulationes tironum litterariorum is one of the liveliest pedagogical works of the sixteenth century and a vivid and valuable cultural document of life in the early modern metropolis of Cologne. -- .
Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. -- .
A study of La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Lettre sur la comedie de L'Imposteur'. -- .
Containing short stories, this title presents a romantic amalgam of elements drawn from fairy-tale and folklore, the fantastic and the society tale, serving didactic, satirical and whimsical purposes.
This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. It breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theatre scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance. -- .
This book honours Jane H. M. Taylor's important contribution to later medieval French literature and, in its ten original essays, acknowledges the debt the area owes to her scholarship. -- .
Presents a 'Flaneur's eye view' of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafes and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. This book provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in 'le vieux Paris'.
A critical edition of Carlos Fuentes' 1962 novel, Aura, accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text. -- .
Celebrates the life and work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and dramatist. -- .
Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. -- .
This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars covers aspects of interdisciplinarity and collaboration within the Republic of Letters. The essays include historical, theological, and literary topics and all focus on different means of communication of individuals between other intellectuals, with the past, and through the arts. -- .
This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Theatre des Varietes. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre, impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month by month overview of what was actually performed. -- .
Saramago's labyrinths focuses on both the form and the content of Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). -- .
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