“Appelle-moi Pierrot”

“Appelle-moi Pierrot”
Author: Jo Ann Marie Recker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027279233

The application of moliéresque critical theory to the Correspondance of Mme de Sévigné can contribute to a renewed appreciation of the highly intellectual quality of the comic genius of a "spirituelle marquise," a mother who desperately wanted to entice a distanced daughter to regularity in an epistolary exchange, a woman of wit and irony.

Madame de SŽvignŽ

Madame de SŽvignŽ
Author: Frances Mossiker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1985
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231061537

This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.

Dissertation Abstracts

Dissertation Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1965
Genre: Dissertations, Academic
ISBN:

Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.

The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel

The Facts on File Companion to the French Novel
Author: Karen L. Taylor
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2006
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0816074992

French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.

Guide to French Literature

Guide to French Literature
Author: Anthony Levi
Publisher: Detroit [Mich.] : St. James Press
Total Pages: 1230
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This guide surveys the lives and works of 300 famous French writers. Entries are devoted to the primary writers, with some entries on important movements, literary groups and publications.