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The Lair
Now available for the first time in English, Manea's acclaimed novel of émigrés in America, free yet imprisoned by the past Norman Manea, Romania's most famous contemporary author, twice has survived the...
The Strait Gate
Thresholds and Power in Western History
A prize-winning scholar offers a sweeping exploration of the role doors have played in history Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West, The Strait Gate demonstrates how...
Yale French Studies, Number 130
Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France
The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France Although the Catholic Church...
Yale French Studies, Number 131/132
Bande Dessinée: Thinking Outside the Boxes
The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinée, Franco-Belgian comics This special issue of Yale French Studies on bande dessinée...
Yale French Studies, Number 133
“Detecting” Patrick Modiano: New Perspectives
Number 133 in Yale French Studies takes a new look at the themes in Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's work This volume of Yale French Studies offers new perspectives on the work of the 2014...
Yale French Studies, Number 134
The Construction of a National Vernacular Literature in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Edwin M. Duval
This new volume of Yale French Studies both honors and adds to Edwin M. Duval’s scholarship on the history and development of French Renaissance literature. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval’s scholarship focuses on...
History and Prophecy
The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions
An iconoclastic study of the entire Hebrew Bible (Christianity's Old Testament) that argues provocatively that the Bible developed as a written tradition rather than an oral one, as commonly believed.
Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time,...
Love Relations
Normality and Pathology
Dr. Otto Kernberg, the internationally renowned psychoanalytic theorist and clinician, here examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples, from adolescence to old age.Dr. Kernberg considers the two...
Butterfly's Sisters
The Geisha in Western Culture
In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women—and geishas in particular—from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese...