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Books by Christopher Prendergast
  | | A History of Modern French Literature From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast, Fellow Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15772-6, ISBN: 0-691-15772-3 "An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature ..." |
 | | Living and Dying with Marcel Proust (Paperback) by Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2022 by Europa Compass, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-60945-760-0, ISBN: 1-60945-760-9 "A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time." |
 | | The Triangle of Representation by Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 123 Pages, Published 2000 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12091-3, ISBN: 0-231-12091-5 "Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?). The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and o ..." |
 | | Septembers by Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Salt Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-907773-78-5, ISBN: 1-907773-78-9 "Matt is a toiling history teacher, a liberal twenty-eight year old and an apologist for German Chancellor Franz von Papen. After a series of professional lapses, Matt loses his first teaching job. He moves from Sheffield to Birmingham and from teaching to bizarre historical re-enactments. When a new friendship offers the chance of redemption Matt tries to turn events in his favour and convince people of his worth. He starts to see the b ..." |
 | | The Triangle of Representation by Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 123 Pages, Published 2000 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12090-6, ISBN: 0-231-12090-7 "Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?). The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and of ..." |
 | | Eugénie Grandet(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Honoré De Balzac, Christopher Prendergast, Sylvia Raphael, Fellow Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955589-5, ISBN: 0-19-955589-3 "'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie's ..." |
 | | Debating World Literature(Updated) by Christopher Prendergast, Emily Apter, Benedict Anderson, Nicholas Dew, Peter Madsen, Simon Goldhill, Stephen Heath, Franco Moretti, John Sturrock, Francesca Orsini, Stanley Corngold, Professor Stanley Corngold, Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig, Timothy J. Reiss, Bruce Clunies Ross Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-458-8, ISBN: 1-85984-458-8 "In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of "literature" has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. Its starting point is Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its concerns include the legacy of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term "literature" itself, cros ..." |
 | | Balzac(Updated) Fiction and Melodrama by Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 1978 by Holmes & Meier Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8419-0457-6, ISBN: 0-8419-0457-X |
 | | Eugénie Grandet(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Christopher Prendergast, Honoré De Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Honorã De Balzac Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280474-7, ISBN: 0-19-280474-X "'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?'This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugénie Grandet (1833), one of the the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugénie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugénie's e ..." |
 | | The Classic(1st Edition) Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars by Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921585-0, ISBN: 0-19-921585-5 "Focusing on a moment and a source in nineteenth-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? The question is, by virtue of its insistent recurrence, itself a classic question. It returns to haunt us. It provided the title of a text for French critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve in 1850 ('Qu'est-ce qu'un classique?'), as it did in the twentieth century for T.S. Eliot and John ..." |
 | | Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Writing the City) by Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 1995 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-19694-5, ISBN: 0-631-19694-3 "Paris has long been the archetypal literary city. This identification reached its peak in the nineteenth century when Paris could reasonably fulfill Walter Benjamin's claimn for it: that it was the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. In this expansive and entertaining book Christopher Prendergast explores the way writers and others have identified with Paris and been identified with it. He moves between social and cultural history, lit ..." |
 | | The Harper Collins World Reader(1st Edition) Single Volume Edition by Christopher Prendergast, Mary Ann Caws, Maryann Caws Paperback, 2,685 Pages, Published 1994 by Harpercollins College Div ISBN-13: 978-0-06-500750-3, ISBN: 0-06-500750-6 "This groundbreaking, world literature anthology offers students a truly global perspective on the whole world of literature: old and new, eastern and western (including works from often underrepresented areas like Asia, Africa, and Latin America), by women and by men, and traditional and not yet canonized works." |
 | | Interactionism(3rd Edition) Exposition and Critique (The Reynolds Series in Sociology) by Larry T. Reynolds, Contributor-Christopher Prendergast, Nancy J. Herman, John David Knottnerus, Bernard N. Meltzer, Gil Richard Musolf, Fellow Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1993 by Altamira Press ISBN-13: 978-0-930390-65-5, ISBN: 0-930390-65-2 "This book presents an overview of that theoretical framework known as symbolic interactionism. It details the major intellectual and philosophical antecedents of the interactionist perspective, i.e., evolutionism, Scottish moral philosophy, German idealism, pragmatism, and functional psychology. Under the heading evolutionism, the Darwinian notion of the mutually determinative relationship existing between environments and organisms is ..." |
 | | Nineteenth-Century French Poetry Introductions to Close Reading by Christopher Prendergast, Christopher Hrsg. Prendergast, Fellow Christopher Prendergast, Clive Scott Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1990 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-34774-7, ISBN: 0-521-34774-2 "Presenting a new approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry, each essay in this collection focuses on the detailed organization of a single poem. Eleven essays, written from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, cover poets from Lamartine to Mallarmé and Laforgue. The method of close reading has been adopted in order to effect an introduction to the analysis of the "basics" of poetic language (sound, met ..." |
 | | Eugénie Grandet (The World's Classics) by Honoré De Balzac, Sylvia Raphael, Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1991 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282605-3, ISBN: 0-19-282605-0 "Oppressed by the exacting miserliness of her father, Eugenie Grandet erroneously see the arrival of her penniless Parisian cousin Charles as her means of escape. Balzac was obsessed with the fate of his heroine and this passionate intensity is evident throughout the novel, one of the earliest and greatest of his Comedie humain. Exploring provincial claustrophobia, financial acuity, and the social and economic consequences of the Revol ..." |
 | | Mirages and Mad Beliefs(1st Edition) Proust the Skeptic by Professor Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2013 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15520-3, ISBN: 0-691-15520-8 "Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and ..." |
 | | Napoleon and History Painting(Updated) Antoine-Jean Gros's la Bataille d'Eylau by Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1998 by Unknown Import ISBN-13: 978-0-19-817422-6, ISBN: 0-19-817422-5 "This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often contradictory) demand of a propaganda-machine operating within a postrevolutionary crisis of poli ..." |
 | | The Prisoner In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust, Carol Clark, Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Classics Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313359-9, ISBN: 0-14-313359-4 "The long-awaited fifth volume--representing "the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of "the greatest literary work of the twentieth century" (The New York Times)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperCarol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Cl ..." |
 | | Sodom and Gomorrah(1st Edition) (Cities of the Plains) by Marcel Proust, John Sturrock, Christopher Prendergast Hardcover, 576 Pages, Published 2004 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03348-5, ISBN: 0-670-03348-0 " Like its predecessors, this wonderful new translation is certain to be hailed as a literary event, bringing us a more rich, comic, and lucid Proust than American readers have previously been able to enjoy. In this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis ..." |
 | | Cultural Materialism(1st Edition) On Raymond Williams (Studies in Classical Philology) by Christopher Prendergast, Fellow Christopher Prendergast Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 1995 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2281-8, ISBN: 0-8166-2281-7 "lations from Fuhrmans's text in Holderlin's SUmtiicher Werke (Grosse Stuttgarter Aus- gabe), ed. ... Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of A ncient Greece (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982). ... but by the attainment of a higher mode of freedom that comes about only when alienation (which Greek civilization was fortunate never to know ... according a decisive importance to the aesthetic act: Kant's Critique of Judgemen ..." |
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