Title:
The Cambridge introduction to French literature / Brian Nelson.
Author:
Nelson, Brian, 1946- author.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015
Call Number:
PQ103 .N45 2015
Abstract:
"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. The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Electronic Access:
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ISBN:
9780521887083
9780521715096
Series:
Cambridge introductions
Cambridge introductions to literature.
Physical Description:
xx, 298 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject Term:
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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