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Author : William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521897860
The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.
Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827871
Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521887083
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author : Edward Dowden
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010369325
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ A History Of French Literature; Short Histories Of The Literatures Of The World Edward Dowden Heinemann, 1897 Literary Criticism; European; French; French literature; Literary Criticism / European / French
Author : Michael Moriarty,Jeremy Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107163676
French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present, this book follows themes and developments of thought across the centuries. It provides readers with studies of both systematic thinkers and those who operate less systematically, through essays or fragments, and places them all in their many contexts. Informed by up-to-date research, these accessible chapters are written by prominent experts in their fields who investigate key concepts in non-technical language. Chapters feature treatments of specific thinkers as individuals including Voltaire, Rousseau, Descartes and Derrida, but also more general movements and schools of thought from humanism to liberalism, via the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Marxism, and feminism. Furthermore, the influence of gender, race, empire and slavery are investigated to offer a broad and fulfilling account of French thought throughout the ages.
Author : David Coward
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This magnificent volume provides a complete history of the literature of France from its origins to the present day, taking us beyond traditional definitions of 'literature' into the world of the best-seller and, beyond words, to graphic fiction and.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108739474
This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.
Author : Timothy Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521499143
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674254619
Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.
Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400885046
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This 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, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "national" coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "French" and "Frenchness" expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France. Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century Features more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholars Includes an introduction and index The contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Méchoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stević, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.
Author : Nicholas Hewitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 052179465X
France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.
Author : Denis Hollier,R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674615662
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Author : Sarah Kay,Professor of French Literature Terence Cave,Terence Cave,Malcolm Bowie,Master Malcolm Bowie
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198159315
This text traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the modern day - from the oral works of the Middle Ages via the print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted codification of genres and styles in the 19th century and the resourceful experimentation of the 20th.
Author : Arthur Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107615731
Originally published in 1920, this book presents a series of extracts from French literature with editorial introductions to the selected writers. The extracts were chosen both on the basis of literary merit and as representative of the history of France. All selections are presented in French, with editorial material in English. They are grouped together on the basis of their theme or historical period. Numerous illustrative figures are also provided. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature and history.
Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107036048
A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.