French & Italian

Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start...

A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. In their dystopian visions, the collapse of...

Translated and with an Introduction by David Bellos

144 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2015

Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned...

Viviamo oggi la grande transizione dal secolo delle Masse, il XX, al secolo Personal, il XXI, dove domina l’Individuo: siamo noi, padri e madri e figli e figlie, l’umanità decisiva perché online il Buio non prevalga sulla Luce. A patto di alimentare nei nuovi media digitali valori classici, tolleranza, ragione, equanimità, curiosità, allegria,...

Cet ouvrage de synthèse s’adresse aux étudiants, enseignants, et chercheurs en didactique des langues étrangères. Il est présenté sous la forme d’un outil complet et maniable, qui cherche à faciliter le repérage et l’apprentissage des notions, tout en stimulant la réflexion et en soulignant les liens entre fondements théoriques et pratiques de...

II viaggio sulle tracce del “senso perso” è pieno di passioni e di sorprese. Quella che può sembrare una peculiare indagine su un fenomeno eccezionale della letteratura diventa in realtà una immersione a tutto campo nella complicata vicenda culturale artistica e letteraria del Novecento di cui Toti Scialoja fu protagonista come pittore,...

Of all the cultural "revolutions" brought about by the development of printing technology during the sixteenth century, perhaps the most remarkable but least understood is the purported rise of European vernacular languages. It is generally accepted that the invention of printing constitutes an event in the history of language that has...

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology...

This exhibition documents the contemporary representation of Versailles through a multifaceted array of prints, books, maps, medals, and manuscripts. It highlights in particular those elements that today survive only on paper: ephemeral festivals; short-lived creatures (courtiers, animals, flowers); fragile groves and fountains too costly to...