Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
La langue secrète de Jean Cocteau La langue secrète de Jean Cocteau Jennifer Hatte Well, I'm the author, so I should know! The book is a new interpretation of the deeper meaning of Jean Cocteau's works as a whole, based around an analysis of his novel <i> Les Enfants terribles</i>… OL11894403W
Genet Genet Edmund White A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosex… OL15073198W
Reading Sartre Reading Sartre Joseph S. Catalano "In this volume, Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialecti… OL15507632W
Fragmented Dhaka Fragmented Dhaka Elisa T. Bertuzzo "Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka is one of the world's fastest growing cities, passing from a population of one million to twelve million people in its extended area with three decades (1970-2000). T… OL16153293W
Tomorrow the Manifold Tomorrow the Manifold Reiner Schürmann This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at t… OL19799817W
Looking for the stranger Looking for the stranger Alice Yaeger Kaplan "A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and i… OL20035882W
Barthes Barthes Jonathan Culler,Jonathan D. Culler Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. B… OL262177W
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust Janell Watson This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of th… OL54959W
Proust and the Sense of Time Proust and the Sense of Time Julia Kristeva Noted literary critic, psychoanalyst, and theorist Julia Kristeva presents a thoroughly original and compelling reading of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, just delivered at the 1992 T.S. Eliot M… OL71360W