Book Description
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674615663
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2006-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191516228
This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events but as a series of stories told at varying pace and with different kinds of focus. Readers can thus take in the broad sweep of historical change, grasp the main characteristics of major periods, or enjoy a close appraisal of individual works and their contexts. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical style that will make it attractive to students and to all those who enjoy French Literature.
Author : Adam Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108758045
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 : George Saintsbury
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 1917
Category : French fiction
ISBN :
Author : Pierre Goubert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 113491928X
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Author : Urban T. Holmes (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1930
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Boucheron
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1590519418
This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle--the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilized a generation of French left-wing activists. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will be an essential resource for Francophiles and scholars alike.
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1964
Category : French fiction
ISBN :
Author : Urban T. Holmes (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
A History of the French Novel in two volumes is a work on the French literature written by George Saintsbury, English literary historian and critic. Saintsbury, being the most prominent authority on the subject finds the French Novel a kind which has distinguished itself by communicating to readers the pleasure of literature. The book covers the history of the French novel from its beginnings to the close of the 19th century with the author's endeavor to present a full history of how what is commonly called the French Novel came into being and kept itself in being.