This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.
Francophone Women Coming of Age
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
Frans Hals in America
Frans Hals was one of the most gifted masters of Dutch seventeenth-century art. This book explores the narrative of Hals in America, from his rediscovery by Gilded Age collectors to the thorny issues of attribution and the impact of a dynamic art market over a century.
This study explores Franz Kafka’s fiction through his innovative dream technique. Using Sigmund Freud’s research and existentialist thought, it provides a unique perspective on the uncanny “Kafkaesque” atmosphere, extrapolating dream features into speculative metaphysical areas.
Franz von Suppé
Franz von Suppé established the Viennese operetta, a genre full of charm and gaiety. His sense of melody, rhythmic verve, and brilliant orchestral technique found preeminent expression in his overtures, which became celebrated all over the world.
Frederick Kiesler
This book uncovers the fascinating story of Frederick Kiesler’s ground-breaking Art of This Century gallery, designed for Peggy Guggenheim. It analyzes their fraught collaboration and restores Kiesler to his place in art and architecture history.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the fight to abolish the British slave trade. It explores the struggles of enslaved peoples and activists, the contested line between slavery and freedom, and abolition’s enduring legacy of inequality.
A dilemma threatens our belief in moral responsibility: if determinism is true, we lack control; if not, our actions are a matter of luck. This collection of new essays confronts this problem, with contributions by John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, and others.
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression is under assault from religious activists, political establishments, and technology. This collection explores these new challenges, asking how to weigh free expression against other rights and if free speech can survive its costs.
Freedom of Navigation in the Exclusive Economic Zone
This book examines the EU’s initiatives on ship-source pollution. It analyzes this first regional approach to criminalize pollution beyond international standards, and asks how this will impact the freedom of navigation for other States in the exclusive economic zone.
This book provides an overview of recent developments in freedom of religion in Turkey. While progress has been made towards meeting EU norms, many restrictions remain in a country defined as a democratic, secular state, focusing on the most urgent issues.
Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe
An invaluable guide to freelance English teaching in Eastern Europe, with exclusive insights on combining work with travel. This information-rich account is essential for teacher-travelers, career-minded graduates, and ELT entrepreneurs.
This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry designed to take it where it has never been. It provides a system of esoteric work and interdisciplinary education—a creative synthesis of esotericism and science—to create polymaths for a better world order.
French Historians in the Nineteenth Century
This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.
French Orientalism
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
French Romantic Ballets
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
Freond ic gemete wið
This book offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain. Its chapters present focused analyses of language, literature, and society from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages, offering new readings of texts and exploring language change.
Fresche fontanis
Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.
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