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Exiled in Paris
by James Campbell  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index....
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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
by Noel Riley Fitch Publisher Comments The story of Sylvia Beach's love for Shakespeare and Company supplies the lifeblood of this book. 'An absorbing book, backed by an impressive amount of research. Working from the rich collection of Sylvia Beach's papers, Noel Fitch has written an...
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The Love Affair as a Work of Art
by Dan Hofstadter Book News Annotation Anyone who's dated a writer and suspected that one day he or she might end up as a character in a novel (not necessarily well portrayed) and has saved letters for the eventual court proceedings will appreciate this historical treatise on writers, love...
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A New History of French Literature
by Denis Hollier Publisher Comments This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English. Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French...
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Historys Double
by Andrea Loselle Publisher Comments 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...
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The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought
by Lawrence Kritzman Publisher Comments With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of...
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Banquet Years
by Roger Shattuck Publisher Comments Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism....
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The Francophone Literatures an Introductory Survey
by Belinda Jack Publisher Comments The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transforation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous...
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Rousseau's Legacy: Emergence and Eclipse of the Writer in France
by Dennis Porter Publisher Comments Rousseau's Legacy focuses on the new and influential paradigm of the writer that emerged in the decades immediately preceding the French Revolution. Ushered in by Rousseau's combining revolutionary sociopolitical critique with a new art of autobiography,...
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The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought
by Lawrence D Kritzman Publisher Comments Unrivaled in its scope and depth, "The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought" assesses the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film,...
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Edith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance
by Dorothy Kaufmann 
Publisher Comments Follows a remarkable French woman of letters (and lover of Dominique Aury, author of the "Story of O) who was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time including the French resistance to Nazi occupation and the Spanish Civil War....
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Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture
by Dudley Andrew Publisher Comments The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of a leftist coalition government. The socialist victory, which resulted in fundamental improvements in the lives of...
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Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France
by Charles Bernheimer Publisher Comments Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence...
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In Lieu of Memory: Contemporary Jewish Writing in France (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
by Thomas Nolden Publisher Comments A wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah, this book traces the rich development of young Jewish writing from its beginning in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s, when it gained intense momentum....
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Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light
by David Burke Publisher Comments No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their...
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Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
by Mary Gluck Publisher Comments A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture. Contrary to conventional views...
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Gender & Citizenship the Dialectics Of
by Claudia Moscovici Publisher Comments Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand,...
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The Word from Paris: Essays on Modern French Writers and Thinkers
by John Sturrock Synopsis In this wide-ranging collection, Sturrock brings together his writings on literary figures as diverse as Marcel Proust and Roland Barthes, Sartre and Celine, Camus and Perec....
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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (French Literature)
by Warren F Motte Publisher Comments This is an amazing anthology of writings by members of the group known a Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), comprised of Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Petec, Jacques Roubaud, Raymond Queneau, and others. Rather than inspiration, rather...
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French XX Bibliography: Critical & Biographical Reference for French Literature since 1885, No. 38
by Douglas W Alden Publisher Comments This series of bibliographical references is one of the most important tools for research in modern and contemporary French literature. No other bibliography represents the scholarly activities and publications of these fields as completely....
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