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  • One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry

    Theory and Practice

    by Prof. Willard Bohn ...
    Given that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today.As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was not just a French phenomenon but one that eventually encompassed much of the world. Concentrating on ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Reading Apollinaire's Alcools

    by Willard Bohn ...
    Reviewing the previous scholarship for seventeen of the most important poems in Alcools, this book provides a detailed analysis of each work and includes a state-of-the-art survey of current Apollinaire criticism. Besides acquainting readers with the existing scholarship, the book considers all the interpretations that have been proposed and indicates profitable directions to pursue. Each poem is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes

    by Prof. Willard Bohn ...
    Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire's second major collection of poetry. Composed between 1913 and 1918, the nineteen poems examined here fall into two main groups: the experimental poetry and the war poetry. They also provide glimpses of the poet's personal history, from his affair with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon to his engagement to Madeleine Pagès and his marriage ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Early Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

    by Willard Bohn ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It examines five movements that shaped our response to the demands of the modern age and contributed to the creation of a modern sensibility: Cubism, Futurism, the Metaphysical School, Dada, and Surrealism. Each of these arose in response to recent scientific, technological, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Reading Visual Poetry

    by Willard Bohn ...
    Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity. In contrast to traditional poetry, they are conceived not only as literary works but also as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    by Cormac Newark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la ... Read more

    $109.89 USD

  • A Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs

    by Teodor Flonta ...
    This dictionary assembles 3,246 English proverbs and thousands of equivalents in five national Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian. The Dictionary is a very useful reference tool for scholars of these languages, for researchers working in various associated fields such as linguistics, literature, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and for ... Read more

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  • Practice Makes Perfect French Nouns and Their Genders Up Close

    by Annie Heminway ...
    Series series Practice Makes Perfect Series
    Solve the mysteries of French nouns' gendersPractice Makes Perfect: French Nouns and Their Genders Up Close puts the spotlight on this tricky grammar trouble spot. It boasts plenty of opportunities for practicing your language skills, as well as extensive examples based on a conversational style that will keep you engaged. The book also features a unique answer key that gives you more than just a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Rimbaud Complete

    by Arthur Rimbaud ...
    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Enduring icon of creativity, authenticity, and rebellion, and the subject of numerous new biographies, Arthur Rimbaud is one of the most repeatedly scrutinized literary figures of the last half-century. Yet almost thirty years have elapsed without a major new translation of his writings. Remedying this state of affairs is Rimbaud Complete*,* the first and only truly complete edition of Rimbaud’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • David to Delacroix

    The Rise of Romantic Mythology

    by Dorothy Johnson ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gérard, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Companion to Pablo Neruda

    Evaluating Neruda's Poetry

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries ... Read more

    $17.99 USD