The Cambridge Companion to French Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Lyons |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107036046 |
A fresh and comprehensive account of the literature of France, from medieval romances to twenty-first-century experimental poetry and novels.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Unwin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1997-10-28 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780521499149 |
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Howsam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107023734 |
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
The Cambridge Companion to Proust
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Proust PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Bales |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2001-06-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139826115 |
The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Brewer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2014-10-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316194329 |
The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading scholars representing disciplines ranging from philosophy, religion and literature, to art, medicine, anthropology and architecture, to analyse the French Enlightenment. Each essay presents a concise view of an important aspect of the French Enlightenment, discussing its defining characteristics, internal dynamics and historical transformations. The Companion discusses the most influential reinterpretations of the Enlightenment that have taken place during the last two decades, reinterpretations that both reflect and have contributed to important re-evaluations of received ideas about the Enlightenment and the early modern period more generally.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Morag Shiach |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2007-04-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052185444X |
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Louise Milne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107005124 |
A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.