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Bardadrac
(Paperback)
Nicholas Levett; Gérard Genette
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R993
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Here is an unexpected Gérard Genette, looking back at his life and
time with humour, tenderness and lucidity. ‘Bardadrac’ is the
neologism a friend of his once invented to name the jumbled
contents of her handbag. A way of saying that one finds a little
bit of everything in this book: memories of a suburban childhood, a
provincial adolescence and early years in Paris marked by a few
political commitments; the evocation of great intellectual figures,
like Roland Barthes or Jorge Luis Borges; a taste for cities,
rivers, women and music, classical or jazz; contingent epiphanies;
good or bad ideas; true and false memories; aesthetic biases;
geographical reveries; secret or apocryphal quotations; maxims and
characters; asides, quips and digressions; reflections on
literature and language, with an ironic take on the medialect, or
dialect of the media; and other surprises. At the intersection, for
instance, of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas, Ambrose
Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, Renard’s Journal, Roland
Barthes’ Roland Barthes and Perec’s I Remember, this whimsical
abecedarium invites you to stroll and gather. Gérard Genette
(1930-2018) was research director at the École des hautes études
en sciences sociales in Paris, and visiting professor at Yale
University. Cofounder of the journal Poétique, he published
extensively in the fields of literary theory, poetics and
aesthetics, including, in English: Narrative Discourse: An Essay in
Method (1980), Figures of Literary Discourse (1982), Fiction and
Diction (1993), Mimologics (1995), Palimpsests: Literature in the
Second Degree (1997), Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation
(1997), The Work of Art: Immanence and Transcendence (1997), The
Aesthetic Relation (1999), Essays in Aesthetics (2005).
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and
controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her
political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine,
inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career
before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved
remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from
education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel
writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound
evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an
author. In this collection of essays, leading international
scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and
historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's
oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French
philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic
law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and
more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought,
historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
The invited contributions will reflect the disciplinary scope of
UK-based research in the field of Francophone Canadian Studies as
well as highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of much of this
research. While many of the contributions focus on contemporary
issues and contemporary culture, there is also an awareness of the
historical development of francophone culture in Canada and the
distinctive demographic, political and linguistic factors which
continue to shape it.
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Parsifal Container
(Hardcover)
Georg Baselitz; Text written by Alexander Kluge, Tristan Marquardt; Designed by Fabian Bremer, Pascal Storz
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Demons
(Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the
first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book
that won her that award, "The Color Purple," has been translated
into nearly thirty languages and made into an Academy Award
nominated film), but also because these accomplishments are merely
highlights of a luminous and varied career made from inauspicious
beginnings in rural Georgia. Drawing on extensive interviews and
exhaustive research, Evelyn C. White brings this life to light."
Cruelty, corruption, sensuality, desperation and death: the
sensationalism and morbid pessimism that characterized French
decadence in the late nineteenth century quickly attracted converts
throughout Europe, including Russia. Here are the horrifying,
dramatic and erotic short stories and poetry, most of which have
never before been translated into English, by the most decadent
Russian writers. These explore the depths of the unconscious, as
their characters experience sadism, masochism, rape, murder,
suicide, and, in a story by Gippius, even passionate love for the
dead. * describes the spread of madnessand the collapse of
advanced, but decadent, civilizations that indulge in refined
pleasures * Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a
personal level in his famous story The Abyss Femmes fatales lure
men to destruction, but the most seductive enchantress in the
anthology is death itself.
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The Dry Wood
(Paperback)
Caryll Houselander, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Julia Meszaros
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R721
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In the English-speaking world, the Catholic Literary Revival is
typically associated with the work of G. K. Chesterton/Hilaire
Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But in fact the Revival's
most numerous members were women. While some of these women remain
well known?Muriel Spark, Antonia White, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy
Day?many have been almost entirely forgotten. They include: Enid
Dinnis, Anna Hanson Dorsey, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon,
Rumer Godden, Caroline Gordon, Clotilde Graves, Caryll Houselander,
Sheila Kaye-Smith, Jane Lane, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell,
Kathleen Raine, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, Edith Sitwell, Gladys
Bronwyn Stern, Josephine Ward, and Maisie Ward. There are various
reasons why each of these writers fell out of print: changes in the
commercial publishing world after World War II, changes within the
Church itself and in the English-speaking universities that
redefined the literary canon in the last decades of the 20th
century. Yet it remains puzzling that a body of writing so
creative, so attuned to its historical moment, and so unique in its
perspective on the human condition, should have fallen into
obscurity for so long. The Catholic Women Writers series brings
together the English-language prose works of Catholic women from
the 19th and 20th centuries; work that is of interest to a broad
range of readers. Each volume is printed with an accessible but
scholarly introduction by theologians and literary specialists. The
first volume in the series is Caryll Houselander's The Dry Wood.
Houselander is known primarily for her spiritual writings but she
also wrote one novel, set in a post-war London Docklands parish.
There a motley group of lost souls are mourning the death of their
saintly priest and hoping for the miraculous healing of a
vulnerable child whose gentleness in the face of suffering brings
conversion to them all in surprising and unexpected ways. The Dry
Wood offers a vital contribution to the modern literary canon and a
profound meditation on the purpose of human suffering.
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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