Élancez-vous sur les traces de Raymond Maufrais, jeune journaliste toulonnais épris de nature sauvage et d’exotisme qui s’aventura, seul et sans expérience, en pleine jungle guyanaise sur le fameux sentier des Émerillons, où il disparut en 1950 à l’âge de 23 ans.
Les premiers écrits de Flaubert, comme ses inépuisables manuscrits, offrent un corpus précieux à explorer afin de démasquer ce grand écrivain intimidant, celui qui ne cesse de nous tourmenter, de nous fasciner.
First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Proverbial Language in English Drama, Exclusive of Shakespeare (1495-1616): An Index serves as a comprehensive reference for scholars of Renaissance drama and the use of proverbial expressions in early modern English theater.
Acts of Implication argues that the best approach to the aesthetic value of much literature of the past is by way of the deliberate meaningimplicit or explicitthat the author invites the reader to share.
One of Latin Americans most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (19302014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Proverbial Language in English Drama, Exclusive of Shakespeare (1495-1616): An Index serves as a comprehensive reference for scholars of Renaissance drama and the use of proverbial expressions in early modern English theater.
Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the Stateintroduces and explores documentary poetry written by Israeli poets who came of age during the first two decades of the state and who, since the 1970s and 1980s, have recorded their experiences of that period.
Spencers World of Glass: A Reading of *The Faerie Queenepresents Kathleen Williams's luminous reappraisal of Spenser as not merely a painter of sumptuous scenes but a rigorous maker of worlds.
Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes by James Gindin offers the first comprehensive account of the striking changes in British literature after 1945.
Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places--to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or economic assumptions about our life in these places.