Publication Date: 04/14/2020
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of her closest advisor in this dramatic history of power and revolution.
The year was 1832 and...
Publication Date: 08/01/2019
Cet ouvrage explore les enjeux du hasard et de l’antihasard en littérature lorsqu’il s’agit, pour un auteur ou un personnage, d écrire, d’énumérer et de marcher. Le clinamen (cette forme de déviation aléatoire) est un paradigme esthétique qui permet de questionner le rôle du déterminisme et du ...
Publication Date: 04/23/2019
L’informatique a profondément transformé les études littéraires, qu’il s’agisse des méthodes d’investigation, des questions posées ou des corpus abordés. Pour nombre de chercheurs toutefois, les « humanités numériques » demeurent un domaine étrange et étranger, source de fantasmes et de...
Publication Date: 10/01/2018
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo29203296.html
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as...
Publication Date: 02/26/2018
Readings in the Sous-Oeuvre
Paul Celan (1920-1970) is perhaps the most widely read of modern German-language poets, and yet his reputation has been constructed on a small body of primary texts. Thomas C. Connolly seeks to destabilize canonical readings of Celan’s work by exploring the sous-oeuvre, the marginalized or...
Publication Date: 10/31/2017
Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
Brings to light the contributions of Haitian statesman Baron de Vastey in the development of postcolonial and critical race theory
Demonstrates the influence of de Vastey’s writings and the work of prominent nineteenth and early...
Publication Date: 03/08/2017
http://www.editions-hermann.fr/5083-l-invention-de-la-litterature-juive-…
Une certaine histoire littéraire en France s’entête à nier l’existence de toute littérature juive antérieure à 1900. Armand Lunel, par exemple, a soutenu que, jusqu’à la fin du xixe siècle, « une littérature que l’on...
Publication Date: 11/01/2016
Published by W.W. Norton
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.
It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its...
Publication Date: 11/01/2016
Published by University of Chicago Press
Universal equality is a treasured political concept in France, but recent anxiety over the country’s Muslim minority has led to an emphasis on a new form of universalism, one promoting loyalty to the nation at the expense of all ethnic and religious...
Publication Date: 09/15/2016
Trad. de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Patrick Hersant
Hors série Connaissance, Gallimard
La lecture de L’Étranger tient du rite d’initiation. Partout dans le monde, elle accompagne le passage à l’âge adulte et la découverte des grandes questions de la vie. L’histoire de Meursault, cet...
