BOOKS by Professor Christopher Prendergast

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1	Sodom and Gomorrah more books like this by Marcel Proust, Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor), John Sturrock (Translator) In CITIES OF THE PLAIN (also known as SODOM AND GOMORRAH), Marcel continues his forays into the aristocratic society into which he has finally been admitted, finding satisfaction but a growing disillusionment as well, and is both fascinated and repelled by the world of the flamboyant homosexual Baron de Charlus, and reports on the intricate, ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Swann's Way: 5 more books like this by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator), Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor) This self-contained opening volume of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST introduces the important themes of the novel: childhood, memory, love both idealized and unrequited, and the narrator's fascination with society and the aristocracy. The narrator's childhood memories include the famous madeleine scene, and the ... see all copies from $9.36! new only from $65.06! \| first editions
3	Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a new approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of the eleven essays, on different poets from Lamartine to Mallarme and Laforgue, focuses on the detailed organisation of a single poem. The method of close reading has ... see all copies from $9.33! new only from $31.80! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Triangle of Representation more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?). "The Triangle ... see all copies from $4.60! new only from $4.60!
5	Debating World Literature more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor), Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (Contributions by), Emily Apter (Contributions by) In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization the question of "literature" has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance, with a starting point of Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. The book's ... see all copies from $10.97! new only from $13.20!
6	Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams more books like this by Christopher Pendergast, Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor) see all copies from $6.24! new only from $23.00!
7	Cultural Materialism more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast (Editor) see all copies from $49.32! new only from $50.00!
8	Paris and the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast Paris and the Nineteenth Century moves between social and cultural history, literature, painting and photography. At its heart lies a series of readings of major nineteenth century texts - by Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Michelet, Flaubert, Zola, Valles, Laforgue and others. In each of these texts the city becomes a matter for and problem of ... see all copies from $99.00! new only from $212.68!
9	The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast Focusing on a moment and a source in nineteenth-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? The question is, by virtue of its insistent recurrence, itself a classic question. It returns to haunt us. It provided the title of a text for French critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve in 1850 ... see all copies from $77.16! new only from $99.57! \| first editions
10	The Harper Collins World Reader, Single Volume Edition more books like this by Professor Mary Ann Caws (Editor), Professor Christopher Prendergast This groundbreaking, world literature anthology offers students a truly global perspective on the whole world of literature: old and new, eastern and western (including works from often underrepresented areas like Asia, Africa, and Latin America), by women and by men, and traditional and not yet canonized works. see all copies from $12.04!
11	The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast, Michael Sheringham (Editor) This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette, and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative ... see all copies from $55.00!
12	Eugenie Grandet more books like this by Sylvia Raphael (Translator), Professor Christopher Prendergast (Illustrator), Honore de Balzac Oppressed by the exacting miserliness of her father, Eug 'enie Grandet erroneously see the arrival of her penniless Parisian cousin Charles as her means of escape. Balzac was obsessed with the fate of his heroine and this passionate intensity is evident throughout the novel, one of the earliest and greatest of his Com 'edie humain . Exploring ... see all copies from $1.99!
13	Eugenie Grandet more books like this by Sylvia Raphael (Translator), Professor Christopher Prendergast (Illustrator), Honore de Balzac Eugénie Grandet, first the victim of her wealthy father's miserliness, then disappointed in her love for her faithless cousin Charles, ends up rich and lonely in the house where she grew up, with only a devoted servant for company. Despite its title, however, the novel is essentially a portrait of one of Balzac's favorite character types--the ... see all copies from $28.23!
14	Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille D'Eylau more books like this by Professor Christopher Prendergast This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often ... see all copies from $164.84! new only from $164.84!

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