@article{772739,
      recid = {772739},
      author = {Lyons, John D.,},
      title = {The Cambridge companion to French literature /},
      pages = {xiii, 284 pages :},
      abstract = {"In this authoritative and accessible account of French  literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer  provocative insights into French literary culture, its  genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points,  including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's  multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries,  invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian  romances of Chŕetien de Troyes to Montaigne's Essays, which  gave the world a new literary form and a new standard for  writing about personal thought and experience; from the  highly polished tragedies of French classicism to the  satirical novels of the Enlightenment; from Proust's  explorations of social and sexual mores to the 'New Novel'  of the late twentieth century; and from Baudelaire's urban  poetry to today's poetic experiments with sound and  typography. The broad scope of this Companion, which goes  beyond individual authors or periods, enables a deeper  appreciation for the distinctive literature of France"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772739},
}