An Evening of 20th Century French Poetry
Title | An Evening of 20th Century French Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1982* |
Genre | French poetry |
ISBN |
The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry
Title | The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Auster |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 1984-01-12 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry
Title | The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-century French Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann Caws |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0300133154 |
An influential social thinker, the late Richard Harvey Brown was professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication, published by Yale University Press.
An Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry
Title | An Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | William Alwyn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Twentieth-Century French Poetry
Title | Twentieth-Century French Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Hugues Azérad |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2010-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521886422 |
A selection of modern French poems with critical commentary, glossary of literary terms, biographies and bibliography.
Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought
Title | Community, Myth and Recognition in Twentieth-Century French Literature and Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaj Lübecker |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2011-10-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441196544 |
Taking as its point of departure the notion of community in mid-twentieth century French literature and thought, this ambitious study seeks to uncover the ways in which Breton, Bataille, Sartre and Barthes used literature and art to engage with the question of reconceptualizing society. In exploring the relevance these writings hold for contemporary debates about community, Lubecker argues for the continuing social importance of literary studies. Throughout the book, he suggests that literature and art are privileged fields for confronting some of the anti-social desires situated at the periphery of human rationality. The authors studied put to work the concepts of Thanatos, sado-masochism and (self-)sacrifice; they also write more poetically about man's attraction to Silence, the Night and the Neutral. Many sociological discourses on the question of community tend to marginalize the drives inherent within these concepts; Lubecker argues it is essential to take these drives into account when theorising the question of community, otherwise they may return in the atavistic form of myths. Moreover if handled with care and attention they can prove to be a resource.
Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature
Title | Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late Twentieth-century French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Kemp |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1351569945 |
Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France. From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters, and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth. In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemp's investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth century, Alain Robbe-Grillet (b. 1922), Michel Butor (b. 1926), Georges Perec (193682) and Jean Echenoz (b. 1947). Out of their varied encounters with the genre, from deconstruction of the classic detective story to homage to the roman noir, Kemp elucidates the complex relationship between the pasticheur and his target, which demands an entirely new assessment of pastiche as a literary form.