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    The Games of Fiction: Georges Perec and Modern French Ludic Narrative

    David Gascoigne

    This book presents the first complete overview in English of the prose fiction of Georges Perec, recognised since his death in 1982 as one of the most influential and innovative…

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    Michel Tournier

    David Gascoigne

    An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and…

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    Michel Tournier

    David Gascoigne

    An introduction to the works of Michel Tournier. This study examines the nature of the attack which Tournier mounts on many of the norms and assumptions of Western culture, and…

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    Violent Histories: Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Neo-polar

    This volume presents selected papers from the conference ‘Violence, Culture and Identity’ held at St Andrews University in 2003. It seeks to explore the ways in which French writing since…

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    Narratives of French Modernity: Themes, Forms and Metamorphoses- Essays in Honour of David Gascoigne

    Examines the flourishing of intertextuality, as well as the use of traditional forms, such as mythical structures and the ‘robinsonade’, to undermine authoritative ‘metarecits’. This book examines a wide variety…

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    The Games of Fiction: Georges Perec and Modern French Ludic Narrative

    David Gascoigne

    This book presents the first complete overview in English of the prose fiction of Georges Perec, recognised since his death in 1982 as one of the most influential and innovative…

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    In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer

    David Sellers

    William Gascoigne (c.1612-44) was the inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer (instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy). Into this story is woven an account of the state of…

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    In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer

    David Sellers

    William Gascoigne (c.1612-44) was the inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer (instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy). Into this story is woven an account of the state of…

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    Marie Nimier: Le Sujet et ses ecritures / The Self in the Web of Language

    Marie Nimier’s writing exemplifies a contemporary ‘return of the subject’ in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since Sirene in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. This…

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    Endeavouring Banks: Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

    Banks and his team returned from the Endeavour voyage with unprecedented collections of artefacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish and plants, and they produced remarkable drawings of the peoples…

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