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Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : France
ISBN : BL:A0017991862
Author : Cobham Brewer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368845605
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:219064366
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:266364905
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : France
ISBN : LCCN:a13001629
Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : France
ISBN : NYPL:33433066579131
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : France
ISBN : UVA:X000335736
Author : Alison Finch
Publisher : Polity
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745628400
"The depth and range of this book are astonishing, as it describes the cultural conditions out of which French literature has emerged as a vital component of Western civilization from the Middle Ages to the present day. Informative and immensely readable, it makes a compelling and humane case for the continued study of literature in a changing world." —Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London "Written with great panache, this book locates French literature in the wider culture of the Western world. Finch shows how, from Marie de France to MC Solar, literature in France has always intertwined with politics, history, geography, money, sex, language, gender, class and race. Women writers and the new Francophone literatures receive welcome recognition. A remarkable achievement." —Michael Sheringham, Oxford University "Alison Finch's superbly written book brings the cultural dimension of French literature fully into focus. While revealing how the agenda of literary study has changed, she demonstrates that we can engage with the great canonical texts of French literature in new and exciting ways. The book is to be commended for its clarity, its shrewd analyses and its sheer readability." —Tim Unwin, Bristol University This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France's evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political connections between the elite literature of France and other aspects of its culture, from racism, misogyny, tolerance and liberal reform to song, street performance, advertizing and cinema. The nation's literature contributed to these and was shaped by them. The book highlights the continuities and the unique fault-lines in the society that, over a millennium, has produced 'French culture'. It looks at France's early and continuing struggle for a national identity through both its language and its literature, and it shows that this struggle co-exists with openness to other cultures and a bawdy or subtle rebelliousness against the Church and other forms of authority. En route it takes in cuisine, gardens and the French tradition in mathematics. The survey provides an accessible approach to key issues in the history of French culture as well as a wide context for specialists.
Author : Henry Bulwer Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092290259
Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : France
ISBN : UVA:X001099080
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362611816
Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330968662
Excerpt from France, Social, Literary, Political It is now very nearly four years ago, - at that memorable lime when the great Bourbon dynasty went once more into exile - that I first contemplated a work on France. Not altogether a work such as many which have appeared, skimming lightly over the surface of things, and pretending merely to be the result of a six weeks' residence at Paris - but a work which, in describing the present, would connect it with the past - which, in speaking of what is daily and accidental, would separate it from what ages have sanctioned, and distant ages are likely to see; - a work, which in showing the effect which time, and laws, and accident produce upon the character of a people, would also show the manner in which the character of a people traverses times, enters into laws, dominates over accident. I thought such a work might be useful in England: because it might at once teach us where we could or could not imitate our neighbours; and at the same time convince us that a wise imitation does not consist in copying the laws or the customs of another nation, but in adapting those laws and customs that we wish to imitate to our own dispositions. I thought such a work might be useful; I thought too such a work might be interesting; and that in order to make it useful and interesting, it would be necessary to make it amusing. The English writer of the present century is placed in many respects in the same situation as the French writer of the last. I do not say that he has the same instruction to give, but he has in the same manner to render instruction popular: and this I trust will be my excuse for having sometimes adopted a lighter tone, and introduced lighter matter into the following volumes than the gravity and importance of their subject might seem to require. Thus, it is some time since I first conceived the project of this work - but I had not long proceeded to collect materials for my undertaking before I abandoned the pursuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356292690
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Denis Hollier,R. Howard Bloch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674615662
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
