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  • French Fiction into the Twenty-First Century

    The Return to the Story

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Series series French and Francophone Studies
    The French novel’s “return to the story” in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment accurate? With French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, Simon Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers—Annie Ernaux, Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives and Practices of Education for Sustainable Development

    A Critical Guide for Higher Education

    Edited by Rehema M. White, Simon Kemp, Elizabeth A. C. Price, James W. S. Longhurst ...
    Informed by theory and full of practical advice, this key title offers a clear route to education for sustainable development (ESD) whilst questioning how we reconcile participatory, inclusive processes and the urgency of global crises.This handbook provides guidance for those with an interest in the purpose and direction of learning and the principles and practices of sustainability in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Broken Pieces

    A Diary of Poems and a Breakthrough Testimony

    by Rose Marie Kemp Simon ...
    The Declaration of Independence proclaims that we believe all men to be created equally. It is true that all men are created equally, but all men are not the same. From a biblical perspective, God is not a respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). He is not, but we are. Our differences affect individual concepts of self and our relationships to other people in the world. Diversity causes problems with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Economic Psychology and Experimental Economics

    Edited by Simon Kemp, Gabrielle Wall ...
    The last ten years have seen an enormous surge of interest in issues that are common to psychology and economics. How do people make decisions about economic issues? How should they make such decisions? Does public policy or regulation succeed in its aim of helping people make these decisions? What situations aid cooperation?This volume explores some of the ways in which economists and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp's investigation ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Was Communism Doomed?

    Human Nature, Psychology and the Communist Economy

    by Simon Kemp ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce learned helplessness and therefore empower evil? This book considers such questions, both with respect to how communism actually ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Writing the Mind

    Representing Consciousness from Proust to the Present

    by Simon Kemp ...
    "My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I think… and I can’t stop myself from thinking." – Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaWriting the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast the varying representations of the conscious and the unconscious mind. Grounding ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Translation

    The Interpretive Model

    by Marianne Lederer ...
    Translated by Ninon Larche ...
    This book, the English version of La traduction aujourd'hui (Hachette 1994), describes the interpretive theory of translation developed at the Paris Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT) over the last 35 years.The theory identifies the mental and cognitive processes involved in both oral and written translation: understanding the text, deverbalizing its language, re-expressing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Proust

    Edited by Richard Bales ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Proust and the Visual

    Edited by Nathalie Aubert ...
    Series series Studies in Visual Culture
    Proust and the Visual is an edited volume of essays written by Proustian specialists, concerned with a rich phenomenological category, the "visual" whose prominent role in the novel is at the heart of its modernity. The "visual" is defined as manifesting in the image not only space, but also time. The "visual" is considered as a category that delineates the conditions of possibility of all ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of the Text

    Visuality in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literary and Other Media

    by Susan Harrow ...
    Series series Studies in Visual Culture
    The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes through which writers think and readers respond visually and, in essays by researchers in literature, screen and visual studies, the volume explores the visuality of the literary and non-literary text, with a sustained focus on French material of the later ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Syllables of Time

    Proust and the History of Reading

    by Teresa Whitington ...
    This study reveals reading to be one of the main activities to occupy the inhabitants of the world of Marcel Prousts novel A la recherche du temps perdu. Characters do not just read books but have access to the journals and newspapers of a rapidly expanding print industry. They receive letters and postcards from family and friends. The posters of a nascent advertising industry tempt them to spend ... Read more

    $61.99 USD