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  • Endangered Languages in the 21st Century
    Endangered Languages in the 21st Century
    "Its 18 chapters provide a wide-ranging snapshot of the state of endangered languages in the contemporary world – including a great deal of historical background – and the methods and practices that have come to characterize the effort to revive and maintain disadvantaged indigenous languages, and the challenges still to be faced. There are also new comparative narratives arising from large...
  • The Author as Cannibal (cover)
    The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969–1995
    In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. In The Author as Cannibal, Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary...
  • Réalités pseudonymes
    Réalités pseudonymes
    Réalités pseudonymes explore la question de la réalité à travers le prisme du nom propre et de ses mécanismes référentiels dans la littérature et les arts au tournant du 21ème siècle. Julie Gaillard convoque les œuvres de penseurs, auteurs et artistes qui ont en commun de remettre en question l'évidence référentielle du nom propre...
  • Victims of the Book
    Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France
    François Proulx (2019)
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    Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté
    Edited by Douglas Kibbee and Marcus Keller (2018)
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    The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe
    Edited by Marcus Keller and Javier Irigoyen-García (2017)
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    Proust and the Arts
    Edited by Christie McDonald and François Proulx (2015)
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    A Pact With Vichy: Angelo Tasca From Italian Socialism To French Collaboration
    Emanuel Rota (2012)
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    Genealogies Of Fiction: Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando Furioso'
    Eleonora Stoppino (2011)
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    Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France
    Jean-Philippe Mathy (2011)
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