The Cambridge introduction to French literature / Brian Nelson.
Nelson, Brian, 1946- author.
2015
PQ103 .N45 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge introduction to French literature / Brian Nelson.
Author Nelson, Brian, 1946- author.
ISBN 9780521715096 (paperback)
0521715091 (paperback)
9780521887083 (hardcover)
0521887089 (hardcover)
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language English
Language Note Passages in French with English translation.
Description xx, 298 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number PQ103 .N45 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 840.9
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. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Series Cambridge introductions to literature.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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