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M. Butor invite à redécouvrir V. Hugo à travers une anthologie personnelle composée de pages choisies, d'extraits d'oeuvres, de dessins et de chansons.
LIBRETTO
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October 2023
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Écrivains, universitaires, journalistes et personnalités explorent l'oeuvre de la romancière britannique devenue une icône de la pop culture, soulignant sa subversivité et son avant-gardisme ainsi ... » Read more...
BARIBAL
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December 2023
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S'appuyant sur l'étude d'oeuvres d'écrivains tels que Quintane, Cadiot, Pireyre ou encore Jallon, l'auteure analyse les éléments de la littérature française contemporaine et les rapports entre art ... » Read more...
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September 2023
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Un regard politique sur les femmes et l'écriture . Un jour, Vladimir Nabokov déclara : « J'ai des préjugés contre toutes les femmes écrivains. Elles appartiennent à une autre catégorie. ... » Read more...
POINTS
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« Chaque projet est unique et, surtout, chaque auteur est unique. Les raconteurs d'histoires peuvent se forger une méthodologie « sur le tas ». Ils peuvent aussi, pour gagner du temps, piocher c... » Read more...
ARGYLL ÉDITIONS
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October 2023
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Une étude consacrée à ce roman de la fin du XVIIe siècle. D'abord destiné à l'éducation du petit-fils de Louis XIV et futur roi de France, il devient après sa publication l'un des textes français l... » Read more...
H. CHAMPION
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November 2023
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L’équipe de Lettres québécoises est fière de présenter son numéro de juin, qui met en vedette l’écrivain, intellectuel et professeur Yvon Rivard. Le dossier, illustré par Benoît Erwann Boucherot... » Read more...
LETTRES QUÉBÉCOISES
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June 2023
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b'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.'/b One of the... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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October 2023
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'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision...'
This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth centur... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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October 2023
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'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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October 2022
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Dublin is one of the world's great literary cities, immortalized in works by some of the most celebrated international authors. It is a city of warmth and character, which combines the richest of h... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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November 2023
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I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath whose... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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December 2022
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'(Conrad) thought of civilised and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths' ... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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February 2023
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'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.'
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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July 2023
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'The victor belongs to the spoils.' F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), is a devastating portrait of a generation of wealthy young Americans who struggle to find me... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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July 2022
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A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett. After a life of writing about Victorian novelists, Rosemarie Bodenheimer found herself entranced by the work of Samuel Beckett. In t... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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A book on the experience of reading Honore de Balzac's La Comedie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: mo... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology. William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry James and a founder of the study of psychology.... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emot... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'. As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studyi... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are ... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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'The old woman opened the door, and the next moment I was in the presence of Uncle Silas.'
In Victorian Derbyshire, 17 year old orphan and heiress Maud Ruthyn is sent to live at the claustrophob... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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February 2023
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'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Co... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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February 2023
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"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life."
In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most fam... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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February 2023
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'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.'
In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as wel... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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April 2023
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Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexi... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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April 2023
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A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age ... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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June 2023
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A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. What would the world be like without this work, where would we be if it hadn't happened? This is how Michael Wood found... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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June 2023
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In his 1894 breakthrough novel, Pan, Knut Hamsun provides a lyrical, yet disturbing analysis of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn roams Norway's northernmost w... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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July 2023
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100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time re... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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September 2022
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'If something else can capture your attention Then it's not love, but just a trivial passion - Love is that flame which, once it blazes up, Burns everything but the Beloved up.' This is the first e... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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December 2022
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'Who would you say knows himself?'
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact co... » Read more...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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April 2023
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Roumaine de naissance, française de plume, la princesse Bibesco (1886-1973), l'un des auteurs tes plus lus de l'entre-deux-guerres, rivale de Colette et Anna de Noailles, admirée de Marcel Proust, ... » Read more...
TALLANDIER
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October 2023
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Ce livre parle d'aujourd'hui, de nos asphyxies et de nos grands besoins d'air. Parce qu'une atmosphère assez irrespirable est en train de devenir notre milieu ordinaire.. Et l'on rêve plus que jama... » Read more...
VERDIER
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November 2023
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Le Juif imaginé . Nous n'avons qu'un seul Dieu ! Et nous n'y croyons pas ! » ; « Dieu n'existe pas... et nous sommes son peuple élu ! » : l'humour juif donne ici un modèle pour penser la... » Read more...
CNRS
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October 2023
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Un panorama complet des œuvres littéraires québécoises à découvrir et à explorer
La quatrième édition de cette Anthologie de la littérature québécoise, une référence sûre en la matière, couvre p... » Read more...
BEAUCHEMIN
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March 2023
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En 1971, Claude Duchet publie le texte fondateur de la sociocritique, « Pour une sociocritique ou variations sur un incipit », dans le premier numéro de la revue Littérature. En 2021, ce texte a eu... » Read more...
PRESSES DE L'UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
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June 2023
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Après un rappel de l'évolution de l'histoire littéraire française et de ses traditions à travers les siècles, le professeur de lettres modernes propose d'en comprendre le renouveau, la poésie histo... » Read more...
ARMAND COLIN
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October 2023
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Un cours complet sur les oeuvres au programme complété de citations commentées, de résumés corrigés et de sujets de dissertation pour s'entraîner aux concours.
PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES FRANCE
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June 2023
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and bestselling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood and W... » Read more...
ANCHOR CANADA
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November 2023
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A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature’s most elegant voices.
Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turn... » Read more...
MIT PRESS
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September 2023
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Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?
Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm -... » Read more...
PARTICULAR BOOKS
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September 2023
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he first survey of Leo Lionni’s protean career as a graphic designer, children’s book creator, and fine artist
Between Worlds: The Art and Design of Leo Lionni opens at the Norman Rockwell Museu... » Read more...
W.W.NORTON & COMPANY
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November 2023
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What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offers a funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually terrifying.
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QUIRK BOOKS
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November 2023
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From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient— which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:
Why do people ... » Read more...
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
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September 2023
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If you love reading and you follow your horoscope, then this gorgeous little book is perfect for you. A Book Lover's Guide to the Zodiac marries astrology and literature by connecting both writers ... » Read more...
PAN MACMILLAN
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November 2023
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"Through his technique of listening to literature, William H. Pritchard has educated generations of loyal students in all aspects of what he simply calls 'good reading and writing.' How fortunate t... » Read more...
PAUL DRY BOOKS
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November 2023
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The history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there.
London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicago gets her due. A city of enormous contemporar... » Read more...
WHITE PINE PRESS
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November 2023
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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published... » Read more...
SEVEN STORIES
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April 2010
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Une analyse du rapport de Chateaubriand à l'histoire, thème revêtant pour lui des enjeux esthétiques, politiques mais également épistémologiques. Jacob Lachat montre ainsi le regard de l'auteur sur... » Read more...
VRIN
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August 2023
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