| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: THE LONG VIEW -- PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO 1470 -- OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD -- THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP -- The saints speak French -- Inventing love poetry: the songs of the troubadours -- The three matières and the move from history to fiction -- Courtliness and the rise of romance -- The chansons de geste -- Clerks, jongleurs, and townspeople -- Prose: history, romance, and the Grail -- Treatises, encyclopedias, and compilation in the thirteenth century -- The Roman de la rose and the allegorical tradition |
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From the grand chant courtois to the formes fixes: the French lyric at its height -- The dit amoureux: between lyric and history -- Writing history -- Humanism, didacticism, licence and death -- The 'Querelle du Roman de la rose' and 'La belle dame sans mercy' -- Theatre in the late Middle Ages -- The future of a poet with a past: François Villon -- PART II. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: 1470-1789 -- OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD -- THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP -- From Burgundy to the French court: Jean Lemaire de Belges -- Rabelais: Pantagruel and Gargantua |
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Outlines of the novel -- The end of a reign: literature at the turn of the century -- The letter-form: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Graffigny -- The philosophes in action: the Encyclopédie -- Rousseau: autobiography and fiction -- The sentimental and the erotic -- Diderot: the philosophe and his double -- Crossing the divide -- PART III. THE MODERN PERIOD: 1789-2000 -- OVERVIEW OF THE PERIOD -- THE PERIOD IN CLOSE-UP -- Literature and political action -- The Romantic individual -- Literature and sexuality -- The Napoleonic legend -- Romanticism in verse -- History and prophecy |
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Prose fiction prepares for victory -- Stendhal and Balzac -- A colossus: Victor Hugo -- Poetry and society -- Writing by women, 1830-1880 -- Theatre in the nineteenth century -- Literature before the law -- Flaubert's war on stupidity -- Literature and science: the case of 'Naturalism' -- Dreyfus and after -- Gide and Proust -- Literature and war: 1914-18 -- In Mallarmé's shadow -- Dada and surrealism -- Prose fiction between the wars -- The twentieth century's Voltaire: Jean-Paul Sartre -- Literature and war: 1939-45 -- The fortunes of the modern novel |
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Religious controversy and literature: the circle of Marguerite de Navarre -- Rabelais's later works -- Poetry: (i) from Marot to Labé -- Poetry: (ii) the Pléiade -- The late sixteenth century: Montaigne's Essais -- New directions in the early seventeenth century -- Poetry: (iii) Malherbe and his contemporaries -- Questions of language and style -- Theatre: a retrospect -- Theatre: Corneille and his times -- Descartes and Pascal: the mid-century turn -- Literature and power in the age of Louis XIV -- Questions of psychology and ethics -- Lucidity and uncertainty -- 'Ancients' and 'Moderns' |
| Summary |
This text traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the modern day - from the oral works of the Middle Ages via the print culture in the Renaissance, through to the attempted codification of genres and styles in the 19th century and the resourceful experimentation of the 20th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism
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French literature.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cave, Terence
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Bowie, Malcolm, 1943-2007.
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| LC no. |
2006273422 |
| ISBN |
9786610756551 |
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6610756554 |
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9780199291182 |
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0199291187 |
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9780191516221 |
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0191516228 |
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