Screen LibraryThe Cambridge introduction to French literature /
"In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronolo...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Series: |
Cambridge introductions
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| Summary: |
"In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of the most influential writers within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in the original French and with an English translation. |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 298 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780521887083 0521887089 9780521715096 0521715091 |
| Index Number: | PQ103 |
| CLC: | I565.06 |
| Call Number: | I565.06/N424 |
| Contents: | 1. Villon: a dying man -- 2. Rabelais: the uses of laughter -- 3. Montaigne: self-portrait -- 4. Corneille: heroes and kings -- 5. Racine: in the labyrinth -- 6. Molìere: new forms of comedy -- 7. La Fontaine: the power of fables/fables of power -- 8. Madame de Lafayette: the birth of the modern novel -- 9. Voltaire: the case for tolerance -- 10. Rousseau: man of feeling -- 11. Diderot: the enlightened sceptic -- 12. Laclos: dangerous liaisons -- 13. Stendhal: the pursuit of happiness -- 14. Balzac: 'All is true' -- 15. Hugo: the divine stenographer -- 16. Baudelaire: the streets of Paris |