The Cambridge History of French Literature

The Cambridge History of French Literature
Author: William Burgwinkle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2011-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521897866

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections

Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: John Henry Ottemiller
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810877201

The standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States since the beginning of the 20th century, Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections has undergone seven previous editions, the latest in 1988, covering 1900 through 1985. In this new edition, Denise Montgomery has expanded the volume to include collections published in the entire English-speaking world through 2000 and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors. Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume is a valuable resource for libraries worldwide.

The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought

The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought
Author: Lawrence D. Kritzman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231107907

This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century

The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century
Author: Beatrix Hesse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-08-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113746304X

This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères
Author: Binita Mehta
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838754559

This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.