The Cambridge introduction to French literature /

The Cambridge introduction to French literature / Brian Nelson.

"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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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Nelson, Brian, 1946- (Author)
Other title:Introduction to French literature
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Subjects:
French literature > History and criticism.
French literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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. Molière: 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
  • 17. Flaubert: the narrator vanishes
  • 18. Zola: the poetry of the real
  • 19. Huysmans: against nature
  • 20. Mallarmé: the magic of words
  • 21. Rimbaud: somebody else
  • 22. Proust: the self, time and art
  • 23. Jarry: the art of provocation
  • 24. Apollinaire: impresario of the new
  • 25. Breton and company: surrealism
  • 26. Céline: night journey
  • 27. Sartre: writing in the world
  • 28. Camus: a moral voice
  • 29. Beckett: filling the silence
  • 30. French literature into the twenty-first century.

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