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An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of her sexual escapades and immoral behavior. A confession that contains...

Now finally available in English, this biography of Margarethe Csonka-Trautenegg (1900-1999) offers a fully-rounded picture of a willful and psychologically complex aesthete. As Freud's never-before-identified "case of female homosexuality", her analysis continues to spark often heated psychoanalytic debate. Margarethe's ("Sidonie's") experiences spanned the twentieth century.Jewish by birth, she fled upper-class life in Vienna for Cuba to escape the Nazis, only to return post-war...

Follow Your BlissWhether you're looking to express yourself creatively for the first time or have found yourself in a creative rut, you'll soon be following your inspired voice with the help of Journal Bliss.With the guidance of author, Violette, you'll learn to express your thoughts and feelings like never before in your own art journal. Not only will Violette inspire you with her own journal pages, she'll teach you techniques for creating your ow...

Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'.

An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods, conspiratorial fantasies, and the denial of scientific and historical evidence.**In the face of conspiracy theories, climate change denial, and cultural warfare over gender, race, and history, speculative fiction's willing suspension of belief, as well as disbel...

How to live a morally decent life in the midst of today's constant, complex choicesIn a world of often confusing and terrifying global problems, how should we make choices in our everyday lives? Does anything on the individual level really make a difference? In Catastrophe Ethics, Travis Rieder tackles the moral philosophy puzzles that bedevil us. He explores vital ethical concepts from history and today and offers new ways to think about the “right” thing to do wh...

Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this "masterpiece on the tyranny of love" ( Independent, UK)."Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir's protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force" (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc's hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse and Isabelle proves an authentic and liberating exploration of quee...

A fresh approach to the history and shape of science fictionIn Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system of genres entirely distinct from the pre-existing classical and acade...

'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages to feel the warmth of other bodies, and watches the hot batter of pancakes drip from ...

This new epic fantasy series begins a tale of magic and danger, as a healer finds herself pulled deeper into a web of secrets and hazardous magic that could bring about the end of the world as she knows it.Fenra Lowens has been a working Practitioner, using the magic of healing ever since she graduated from the White Court and left the City to live in the Outer Modes. When one of her patients, Arlyn Albainil, is summoned to the City to execute the final testament o...

High-powered business woman, Helga Schulz, brings herself low behind closed doors. She lives a double life as a no-nonsense middle manager during the day and a depraved submissive during the night. After a stressful weekend, she escapes to a hotel for a night she'll never forget.During a routine encounter, she learns that her domineering partner is none other than her employee, Adam. Shocked and intrigued by the handsome young man, she allows him to dominate her.Roles revers...

With more than 50 years of current teaching experience between them, the authors of Secondary Languages in Action have created an accessible summary of research and thinking on approaches to MFL teaching, cutting through the noise of online debates and keeping the focus on application in the classroom.Each chapter guides you through different elements of MFL teaching, covering all the skills but also tips on how to increase engagement, make the case for languages and enric...