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| Author | : Patrick Corcoran |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-10-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521614937 |
A stimulating overview of the literature of French-speaking nations in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
| Author | : Brian Nelson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2015-06-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521887089 |
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
| Author | : John D. Lyons |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
| Author | : Timothy Unwin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Nicholas Hewitt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2003-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521794657 |
France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This 2003 Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.
| Author | : Eva-Marie Kröller |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2004-02-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521891318 |
This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, francophone writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergence of urban writing in a country traditionally defined by its regions. Also discussed are genres that have a special place in Canadian literature, such as nature-writing, exploration- and travel-writing, and short fiction.
| Author | : Anna-Louise Milne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2021-03-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108658849 |
Our global literary field is fluid and exists in a state of constant evolution. Contemporary fiction in French has become a polycentric and transnational field of vibrant and varied experimentation; the collapse of the distinction between 'French' and 'Francophone' literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences and interactions. In this collection, renowned scholars provide thoughtful close readings of a whole range of genres, from graphic novels to crime fiction to the influence of television and film, to analyse modern French fiction in its historical and sociological context. Allowing students of contemporary French literature and culture to situate specific works within broader trends, the volume provides an engaging, global and timely overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, and demonstrates how our modern literary world is more complex and diverse than ever before.
| Author | : F. Abiola Irele |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2009-07-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139827707 |
Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted these older forms to develop and enhance the genre of the novel, in a shift from the oral mode to print. Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. They highlight the themes and styles of the African novel through an examination of the works that have either attained canonical status - an entire chapter is devoted to the work of Chinua Achebe - or can be expected to do so. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.
| Author | : John Conteh-Morgan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1994-10-20 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521434539 |
This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.
