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1	Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France more books like this by Dr. Natalie Zemon Davis add to wishlist This book is an account of life and death in early modern France. It is an analysis of the crime stories which men and women told their judges in order to try to save themselves from the gallows. To receive a royal pardon for murder in 16th century France, a supplicant had to tell the king a story. Thousands of such stories are found in the French ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $24.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rhetoric of Empire-PB more books like this by David Spurr add to wishlist The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account ... see all copies from $7.93! new only from $23.27! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France more books like this by Professor Gabrielle M Spiegel add to wishlist In a poststructuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $29.29! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature more books like this by Lawrence R Schehr add to wishlist Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how homosexuality functions at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse. It examines each writer in turn, reflecting on how their texts represent homosexuality, ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $4.03! \| first editions
5	Literary Debate more books like this by Denis Hollier (Editor), Ramona Naddaff (Editor), Professor Jeffrey Mehlman (Editor) add to wishlist Key texts from the leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.14! \| first editions
6	Testaments betrayed more books like this by Milan Kundera add to wishlist Written like a novel, this essay has nine sections, in each of which the same characters meet and cross each other's paths: Stravinsky and Kafka and their odd friends, Ansernet and Brod; Hemingway and his biographer; Janacek and his little nation; and Rabelais and his heirs, the great novelists. see all copies from $5.30! new only from $9.00! \| first editions
7	Post Scripts: The Writer's Workshop more books like this by Vincent Kaufmann, Deborah Triesman (Translator), Deborah Treisman (Translator) add to wishlist We assume that words are posted (mailed or, in another sense, positioned) to communicate with others, to bridge distance and "wish you were here". However, Vincent Kaufmann discovers in his chosen letter writers the urgency not to communicate, to keep their correspondents away, and, as it were, posted. The writer avoids real-life dialogue by way ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $30.52! \| first editions
8	History's Double: Cultural Tourism in Twentieth-Century French Writing more books like this by Andrea Loselle add to wishlist In" History's Double," Andrea Loselle looks at the relation between tourism and French literature, drawing a distinction between the tourist industry and the "true" experience of travel. Examining the work of such notable writers as Blaise Cendrars, Paul Morand, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Loselle discusses the literary representation of tourism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| first editions
9	Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity more books like this by Charles Forsdick add to wishlist This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of travel literature have addressed English-language material, Forsdick's study complements these by presenting a body of material that has previously ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $85.46! \| SVS
10	Revolutions in Writing: Readings in Nineteenth-Century French Prose more books like this by Rosemary Lloyd add to wishlist This anthology offers translations of prose and prose poems that illustrate the great variety and richness of one of the most fruitful and exciting periods in French cultural history. "Revolutions in Writing" presents short stories by M rim e, Balzac, Nerval, Gautier, and Maupassant, polemical writings of Chateaubriand, Mme de Sta'l, and Michelet, ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $5.75!
11	Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Roger Chartier, Ecile C Dauphin, Christopher Woodall (Translator) add to wishlist "Correspondence" explores the history of a fascinating cultural practice: the writing of letters. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, western societies served a long apprenticeship in the culture of the written word. Although mastery of reading and writing was far from evenly distributed, many tradesmen, shopkeepers, and artisans ... see all copies from $10.10! new only from $85.00!
12	The Oxford book of French prose more books like this by Janet E. Heseltine (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00!
13 view cover	Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France more books like this by Patrice J Proulx (Editor), Susan Ireland add to wishlist Examines the literature of immigration by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia after World War II. The first comprehensive survey of its kind in English, this book examines the experience of immigration as represented by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan ... see all copies from $92.00! new only from $95.00! \| first editions
14	Between the Library and the Laboratory: The Language of Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century France more books like this by Wilda C Anderson add to wishlist see all copies from $6.89! new only from $7.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography more books like this by Paul John Eakin add to wishlist This monograph explores what the author considers to be the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. He demonstrates that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in ... see all copies from $35.99! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
16	French Prose & Crit 1790-WWII(Oop) more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist "The Critical Cosmos", whith its 86 volumes, edited by Harold Bloom, embraces the ever-expanding world of modern criticism of Western literature, arranged by nations, time periods and international literary tendencies an movements, such as Romanticism and Modernism. The series includes essays by major critics on the crucial authors of Western ... see all copies from $8.98! first editions
17 view cover	The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras, and Robbe Grillet more books like this by Raylene L Ramsay add to wishlist This work explores the new autobiographical genre, the "auto-fictions", that emerged from France in the 1980s. It focuses on three figures of French avant-garde writing, whose autobiographies fall between fact and fiction, and examines the conventions of traditional autobiographies. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $91.12! \| first editions
18 view cover	Stylistic Developments in Literary and Non-Literary French Prose more books like this by Anne Judge add to wishlist This book examines chronologically the development of French prose style from the twelfth century to present day, seeking to demonstrate the vast range of stylistic choices available to the writer of French prose, and to give readers a deeper understanding of the texts. The book is divided into sections dealing with periods (not always centuries) ... see all copies from $74.73! new only from $74.73!
19	The Traditions of French Prose Style: A Rhetorical Study more books like this by John Porter Houston add to wishlist see all copies from $4.45! first editions \| SVS
20	Prosateurs Francais Du Xvie Siecle more books like this by Frank M Chambers add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
21 view cover	Ravishment of Persephone: Epistolary Lyric in the Sihcle Des Lumihres more books like this by Julia De Pree add to wishlist This study delineates a theory of epistolary epic that refutes historical notions of a "siecle sans poesie". It argues that monophonic, epistolary texts written during the Ancien Regime both reflect and resist the classical legacy and at the same time anticipate the nineteenth-century prose poem. see all copies from $12.62!
22	The Emergence of Prose: An Essay in Prosaics more books like this by Wlad Godzich, Jeffrey Kittay add to wishlist see all copies from $4.20! first editions
23	French Prose & Crit Thru 1789(oop) more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist "The Critical Cosmos", with its 86 volumes, edited by Harold Bloom, embraces the ever-expanding world of modern criticism of Western literature, arranged by nations, time periods and international literary tendencies and movements, such as Romanticism and Modernism. see all copies from $22.00! first editions
24	The Modern Essay in French: Movement, Instability, Performance more books like this by Charles Forsdick (Editor), Andrew Stafford (Editor), Peter Collier (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $130.00!
25 view cover	Monsieur Teste more books like this by Paul Valery add to wishlist The famous opening line of Monsieur Teste -- "Stupidity is not my strong suit" -- is typical of Monsieur Teste, and of Valery as well. Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, the book is profoundly personal. Valery said he could not imagine the existence of the novel, vet he could not resist the character living in his mind. On the one ... see all copies from $10.36! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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