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Consist of chapters that examine the relationship between Montaigne's Essais, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French "humanist" Etienne de la Boetie, which challenge prevailing views of Montaigne and his writings.

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Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial effortsin Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture.

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Through literary and historical readings, this book explores how France was haunted by the violence of its colonial effortsin Algeria. Employing literary, philosophical, and archival analyses, it provides a new perspective on literary works from the French colonial period, while addressing questions of history, trauma, memory, and culture.

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With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, Hilman focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s.

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Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultural connections in the period.

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This bio-bibliographical reference book will acquaint the reader with the lives and works of some of the most important women writers in the history of French literature.

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Previous edition: London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1992.

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Thirty-three recent YAL titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.

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Thirty-three recent titles are included as theme connectors among the twelve most frequently taught classics.

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Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

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Explores the diffuse impact of the civil wars and the Republic on the Restoration -- .

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Readers theatre is a powerful tool for building language skills and involving young readers with literature.

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This book is situated between studies of the material object of the book and Algerian women's writing. It examines the iconographic depictions on book covers of three of the most studied francophone writers today, Assia Djebar, Nina Bouraoui, and Malika Mokeddem, among others, and shows how these covers have controlled the reception and interpretation of Algerian women's writing.

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Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The Pioneer

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Containing provocative applications of scholarly observation to practical life, this volume will be of interest to scholars of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and popular culture, and to others who want to know which topics are currently in vogue in the field.

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A study of Michael Haneke's entire body of work, broadening the scholarship on this highly controversial filmmaker. It explores how a political manifests itself in his work.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Retrospect provides a multifaceted, backward glance at Garca Mrquez and his output as a writer. The essays examine his cultural background and influence, take a close look at One Hundred Years of Solitude as well as at several of his later works, and consider his relationship to film and theater.

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Two of John Lyly's most engaging plays -- .

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Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman relates the writer and his work to the nineteenth century novel as a genre and traces his artistic growth during a twenty-year period, from his initia