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  • Aeneas Takes the Metro

    The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-century French Literature

    by Fiona Cox ...
    "This study traces Virgil's journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valery, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how their Virgilian appropriations complement and modify current readings of the ""Aeneid"" and other works. His presence in these works provides insights not only into modern French culture but into the ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing

    Strange Monsters

    by Fiona Cox ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    This innovative study analyses the presence of Ovid in contemporary women's writing through a series of insightful case studies of prominent female authors, from Ali Smith, Marina Warner, and Marie Darrieussecq, to Alice Oswald, Saviana Stãnescu, and Yoko Tawada. Using Ovid in their engagements with a wide range of issues besetting our twenty-first century world - homelessness, refugees, the ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

  • Ovid in French

    Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present

    Edited by Helena Taylor, Fiona Cox ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse uvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the present. It aims to reveal lesser-known voices in Ovidian reception studies, and to offer a wider historical perspective on the complex question of Ovid and gender. Ranging from Renaissance poetry to ... Read more

    $92.29 CAD

  • Homer's Daughters

    Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    Edited by Fiona Cox, Elena Theodorakopoulos ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses ... Read more

    $76.09 CAD

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    Hot Sex

    How to Do It

    by Tracey Cox ...
    Narrated by Fiona Macleod ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 17 min

    Practical, down-to-earth, explicit and funny, Hot Sex is the must have sex and relationships book for every woman and man. Hot Sex is an easy-to-follow guide that cuts straight to the nitty gritty to deliver candid advice and a healthy dose of humour. Packed with tips and techniques that work, Hot Sex includes everything from a blow-by-blow, step-by-step to oral sex, to finding and figuring out ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

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    Hot Relationships

    How to Have One

    by Tracey Cox ...
    Narrated by Marie-Louise Walker ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 32 min

    Are you madly in love or driven mad by it? Happily single or looking for a partner? Living together, married with kids or dumped and desperate? Whatever the state of your love life, Hot Relationships has the answers to all your dating and relating dilemmas. It's packed with advice on everything from flirting and flings to monogamy and marriage. There's hot tips on getting over an ex, where to meet ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Mimesis

    The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)

    by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

    A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre

    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • A New History of Medieval French Literature

    by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet ...
    Translated by Sara L. Preisig ...
    Series series Rethinking Theory
    Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing that a profound literary consciousness did exist at the time.Cerquiglini-Toulet challenges the standard ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Mind-Body Stage

    Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater

    by R. Darren Gobert ...
    Descartes's notion of subjectivity changed the way characters would be written, performed by actors, and received by audiences. His coordinate system reshaped how theatrical space would be conceived and built. His theory of the passions revolutionized our understanding of the emotional exchange between spectacle and spectators. Yet theater scholars have not seen Descartes's transformational impact ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD