Twenty Years of French Literary Criticism
Title | Twenty Years of French Literary Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Freeman G. Henry |
Publisher | Summa Publications, Inc. |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781883479022 |
French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Title | French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Masha Belenky |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2017-03-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611496381 |
French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century brings together current scholarship on a diverse range of topics—from French postcards and Third Republic menus to Haitian literary magazines and representation of race in vaudeville theater—in order to provide methodological insight into the current practice of French cultural studies. The essays in the volume show how scholars of French studies can effectively analyze what we term “non-traditional sources” in their historical and geographical contexts. In doing so, the volume offers a compelling vision of the field today and maps out potential paradigms for future research. This bookbuilds upon previous scholarship that defined the stakes of using an interdisciplinary approach to analyze cultural objects from France and Francophone regions and aims to evaluate the current state of this complex and constantly evolving field and its current methodological practices.
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France
Title | The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France PDF eBook |
Author | Oana Sabo |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2018-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 149620560X |
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century "migrant literature" has become central to criticism and publishing. Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Henri Lopès, Andreï Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée, the Académie française, publishing houses, and online reviewers), Sabo argues that these texts are best understood as cultural commodities that mediate between literary and economic forms of value, academic and mass readerships, and national and global literary markets. By examining the latest literary texts and cultural agents not yet subjected to sufficient critical study, Sabo contributes to contemporary literature, cultural history, migration studies, and literary sociology.
A Short History of French Literature
Title | A Short History of French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Kay |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2006-01-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191516228 |
This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events but as a series of stories told at varying pace and with different kinds of focus. Readers can thus take in the broad sweep of historical change, grasp the main characteristics of major periods, or enjoy a close appraisal of individual works and their contexts. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical style that will make it attractive to students and to all those who enjoy French Literature.
French Literary Theory Today
Title | French Literary Theory Today PDF eBook |
Author | Tzvetan Todorov |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1982-10-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521297776 |
Originally published in 1982, this is an anthology of studies by French literary theorists representing the most significant contributions to the field made in France in the preceding fifteen years. The essays were published here in English for the first time and cover, among other topics, the methodology of literary studies, the specifics of literary creation, the different facets and levels of the text, and the issues raised by the classification of literature into genres and periods. Biographical notes on the authors and an introduction are provided by the editor. The contributors all reflect in varying degrees the influence of structural linguistics, and this collection will be of value for all those, on whichever side of the debate, concerned with the impact and importance of this method of approach for the study of literature.
Beginnings in French Literature
Title | Beginnings in French Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Freeman G. Henry |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | French literature |
ISBN | 9789042013193 |
From the contents: R. Howard BLOCH: Eneas before the walls of Carthage: the beginnings of the city and romance in the suburbs. - Richard l. REGOSIN: Language and nation in 16th-Century France: the Arts poetiques. - Zahi ZALLOUA: Reading the Essais: Where does the critic begin? - Louise K. HOROWITZ: Honore d'Urfe: Bellwether beginnings. - Leonard HINDS: Paratext and framing narrative: techniques of skepticism in Le parasite mormon."
Hellenic Whispers
Title | Hellenic Whispers PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Phillippo |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | French drama |
ISBN | 9783034308519 |
This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.