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Reading Between the Lines

Claude Simon and the Visual Arts

By: Jean H. Duffy

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Reading Between the Lines

Claude Simon and the Visual Arts

By: Jean H. Duffy

This is the first extended analysis of Simon’s novels, examining the relationship between the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon and that of a number of visual artists whose work he has used as stimuli in the production of his novels.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853238510

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9780853238515

Place Names

A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book

By: Jean Ricardou

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Place Names

A Brief Guide to Travels in the Book

By: Jean Ricardou

Which came first, words or things? Are your words yours, or someone else's? And what do the Crusades have to do with it? And what do ants have to do with it? Jean Ricardou has been given something of a bad rap: he's widely seen as a difficult writer, or worse yet, as an intensely serious one. However, he easily sheds this weighty reputation in his hilariously playful new novel about the notoriously complex world of literary theory. Supplying his readers with everything they need to know to navigate this world, Ricardou uses his own irreverent interpretation of deconstructive theory to ask questions about language and history, theory and life, and all the intriguing connections between them.

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148

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564784789

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9781564784780

Signs and Designs

Art and Architecture in the Work of Michel Butor

By: Jean H. Duffy

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Signs and Designs

Art and Architecture in the Work of Michel Butor

By: Jean H. Duffy

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

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320

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Liverpool University Press

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0853237786

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9780853237785

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

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Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction

By: Jean-Pierre Boulé,David Platten

Michel Tournier is a writer who explores complex philosophical questions in the guise of concrete, imagistic narratives. This comprehensive study privileges the notion of literary reference, by which the world of text is understood or experienced in metaphorical relation to the world outside of it. Metaphor, in the context of Tournier’s fiction, shows how the fantastic merges with the real to provide new perspectives on many diverse aspects of the modern world: the Crusoe myth, Nazism, the value to society of art and religion, and the nature of education. This book elucidates an aesthetic of Tournier’s fiction that encompasses the writer’s stated ambition to ‘go beyond literature’.

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265

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Liverpool University Press

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085323843X

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9780853238430

Thresholds of Meaning

Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

By: Jean Duffy

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Thresholds of Meaning

Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative

By: Jean Duffy

Thresholds of Meaning examines contemporary French narrative and explores two related issues: the centrality within recent French fiction and autofiction of the themes of passage, ritual and liminality; and the thematic continuity which links this work with its literary ancestors of the 1960s and 1970s. Through the close analysis of novels and récits by Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Marie Darrieussecq, Hélène Lenoir, Laurent Mauvignier and Jean Rouaud, Duffy demonstrates the ways in which contemporary narrative, while capitalising on the formal lessons of the nouveau roman and drawing upon a shared repertoire of motifs and themes, engages with the complex processes by which meaning is produced in the referential world and, in particular, with the rituals and codes that social man brings into play in order to negotiate the various stages of the human life-cycle. By the application of concepts and models derived from ritual theory and from visual analysis, Thresholds of Meaning situates itself at the intersection of the developing field of literature and anthropology studies and research into word and image.

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368

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Liverpool University Press

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1781387915

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9781781387917

Fuzzy Fiction

By: Jean-Louis Hippolyte

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Fuzzy Fiction

By: Jean-Louis Hippolyte

An evaluation of the work of contemporary French authors through the lens of the fuzzy set theory of mathematics.

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331

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U of Nebraska Press

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080322429X

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9780803224292

The Future of Theory

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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The Future of Theory

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

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176

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470779888

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9780470779880

The Bathroom

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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The Bathroom

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

An original and significant writer, whose fiction can be as engaging as it is surprising." The Times Literary Supplement

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116

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564785181

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9781564785183

The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974

By: Serge Berstein,Jean-Pierre Rioux

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The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974

By: Serge Berstein,Jean-Pierre Rioux

This is the latest volume to appear in the successful Cambridge History of Modern France series, and is the most authoritative account available of the presidency of Georges Pompidou. Pompidou consolidated the constitutional changes made by de Gaulle, to the extent that he is now regarded as the Fifth Republic's second founding father, and continued his haughty attitudes to foreign policy. He also launched a programme of modernisation and industrialisation: under Pompidou France saw both the climax and the end of the post-war boom. Serge Berstein and Jean-Pierre Rioux analyse the politics of the period, and also give an overview of France's economy, culture and society. Their comprehensive study contains all the standard features, such as maps, chronology, and tables, which have helped this series to establish itself as the premier multi-volume account of modern France. Students, scholars and teachers in history and political studies will find this volume invaluable.

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308

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Cambridge University Press

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0521580617

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9780521580618

The Truth about Marie

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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The Truth about Marie

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint’s acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie—the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint’s novels, The Truth about Marie’s plot matters far less than its pace and tempo, its chain of images, its sequence of events. From pouring rain in Paris to blazing fires on the island of Elba, from moments of intense action to perfectly paced lulls, The Truth about Marie relies on a series of contrasts to tell a beguiling, and finally touching, story of intimacy forever being regained and lost.

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169

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564783677

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9781564783677

The History and Power of Writing

By: Henri-Jean Martin

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The History and Power of Writing

By: Henri-Jean Martin

Continuing on to the electronic revolution, Martin's account takes in the changes wrought on writing by computers and electronic systems of storage and communication, and offers surprising insights into the influence these new technologies have had on children born into the computer age. The power of writing to influence and dominate is, indeed, a central theme in this history, as Martin explores the processes by which the written word has gradually imposed its logic on society over four thousand years. The summation of decades of study by one of the world's great scholars on the subject, this fascinating account of writing explains much about the world we inhabit, where we uneasily confer, accept, and resist the power of the written word.

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620

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University of Chicago Press

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0226508366

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9780226508368

My Year of Love

By: Paul Nizon,Jean M. Snook

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My Year of Love

By: Paul Nizon,Jean M. Snook

Having abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, the narrator of My Year of Love flees to Paris to begin his life over again, and finds himself having to rescue himself from the freedom he believed he desired: "I would never have believed that freedom could be a form of captivity, freedom can be like a primeval forest or like the ocean, you can drown in it or disappear and never, never ever find your way out again . . ." With a combination of confession, complaint, and sensual detail, a break is made with the narrator's past, and through writing this very novel the days of his year of love find an order and expression.

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184

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Deep Vellum Publishing

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1564789756

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9781564789754

Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

By: Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton

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Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature

By: Jean Albert Bédé,William Benbow Edgerton

With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.

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932

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Columbia University Press

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0231037171

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9780231037174

Camera

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Camera

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

In this improbable love story, we meet a man who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, slowly yet methodically battles an olive on a plate. It is all simple and amusing until life intercedes: there is love, suddenly, and change, a flurry of emotion, and an unexpected incident with a camera on a ship. Only Jean-Philippe Toussaint - master of poignant deadpan - could write a novel at once so aloof and so touching, where we come to know our narrator intimately while knowing almost nothing about him."--BOOK JACKET.

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130

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Dalkey Archive Press

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156478522X

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9781564785220

Monsieur

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Monsieur

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The hero, Monsieur, is a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life is examined with precision. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Here, he muses on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And he is very funny.

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106

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Dalkey Archive Press

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156478505X

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9781564785053

Running Away

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Running Away

By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint

An unnamed man travels to Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, but finds himself increasingly unmoored from his life and identity. Caught in a jet-lag reality, he stumbles from adventure to adventure, allowing himself to be led not by sense or instinct but by the onrush of experience, until a call from home jars him back into his life, with all of its own confusions." "In Running Away, the Chaplinesque slapstick of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's acclaimed early works The Bathroom and Camera is replaced by an ever-unfolding fabric of coincidences and misapprehensions, both particularly modern and utterly real. The mature Toussaint shows himself to be no less ingenious an inventor of existential dilemmas, but with a new, surprising tenderness, and a deepened concern for the inexpressible immediacy and sensuality of human experience." --Book Jacket.

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162

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Dalkey Archive Press

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156478567X

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9781564785671

Reading Between the Lines

Claude Simon and the Visual Arts

By: Jean H. Duffy

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Reading Between the Lines

Claude Simon and the Visual Arts

By: Jean H. Duffy

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Liverpool University Press

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0853238510

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9780853238515

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