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  • Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

    by Cheryl Krueger ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content

    by Stacey Katz Bourns, Cheryl Krueger, Nicole Mills ...
    An overview of current issues and developments in foreign language education, designed for instructors of language, literature, and culture at any stage of their careersA contemporary guide to foreign language education, this book presents the latest developments and issues in the field of applied linguistics. It leads instructors to make vital connections between theory and practice and to ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Tao of Fortune

    A Journey to Wealth

    by Master Liyu You, Cheryl Krueger, Sunny Gao ...
    Some people seem to succeed without even trying, but others hustle without ever enjoying rewards. If youre frustrated seeing your neighbors enjoy the fruits of life while you sit on the sidelines, then take action! Leverage ancient Chinese wisdom to achieve your personal financial goals, and start enjoying financial freedom.Despite the changes in society, the ancient principles in the Tao continue ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Prose Poems

    Edited by Cheryl Krueger ...
    Series Book 142 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (Les Fleurs du Mal [Flowers of Evil]) and prose poems (Le Spleen de Paris [Paris Spleen]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and offer compelling and fraught representations of urban expansion, social change, and modernity.Part 1, ... Read more

    $52.22 CAD

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    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • François Truffaut

    The Lost Secret

    by Anne Gillain ...
    Translated by Alistair Fox ...
    "Truffaut fans will love this English translation of Gillain's work drawing on the psychology and cinematography of the acclaimed filmmaker." — BooklistFor François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost ... Read more

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  • Feminizing the Fetish

    Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France

    by Emily Apter ...
    Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of ... Read more

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  • Marguerite Duras

    Apocalyptic Desires

    by Leslie Hill ...
    Marguerite Duras is France's best-known and most controversial contemporary woman writer. Duras' influence extends from her early novels of the 1950's to her radically innovative experimental autobiographical text of the 1980's The LoverLeslie Hill's book throws new light on Duras' relationship to feminism, psychoanalysis, sexuality, literature, film, politics, and the media. Feted by Kristeva, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Metamorphoses of Fat

    A History of Obesity

    Translated by C. Jon Delogu ...
    by Georges Vigarello ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Voice Lessons

    French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque

    by Katherine Bergeron ...
    Series series New Cultural History of Music
    Language, education, politics, and music come together in Katherine Bergeron's Voice Lessons, a study of the French mélodie in the Belle Epoque. Close readings of songs by Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel, along with poems, sound recordings, and other historical documents, seek to uncovers the cultural meanings of this art: why it emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared. ... Read more

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  • Proust Among the Stars

    How To Read Him; Why Read Him?

    by Malcolm Bowie ...
    The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably.‘Read this excellent book’ Stuart Jeffries, Guardian‘Very refreshing… a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction’ Gabriel ... Read more

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  • The New Bibliopolis

    French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914

    by Willa Z. Silverman ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD