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Author : Henry Harrold Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature written by Henry Harrold Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor H. H. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331061328
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book A Short Introduction, to the Study of French Literature (Classic Reprint) written by Professor H. H. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short Introduction, to the Study of French Literature "Literature," say M. de Bonald, "is the expression of society." Napoleon I. could not separate literature from the life (as a whole) of peoples: their books he found "magnanimes quand le peuple est grand; vicieux, frivoles ou insenses quand il se corrompt et s'abaisse." Lamartine says of peoples: "Their memory begins with their literature." For Lemercier literature is the all-in-all, in which and from which and into which all is, comes, goes. Voltaire said: "les feuilles volantes sont la perte de la litterature." Guizot thinks that plastically and aesthetically modern letters are inferior to the old, superior as regards sentiments, profundity, and deep-set ideas. I have quoted these Frenchmen in the forefront of my Notes, as they give in their own incomparable way what we can only express as strangers, less well and, to the French, outlandishly. They have been cited, too, in their prose (original or translated). French prose, to many of us foreigners (i.e., non-French), is exquisite, nearly always. French verse generally pleases us less, often very much less. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : H H. Johnson
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ISBN 13 : 9780841453852
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (538 download)
Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature written by H H. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Harrold Johnson
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Total Pages : 171 pages
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Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature written by H. Harrold Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Harrold Johnson
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781356164288
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (642 download)
Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature written by Henry Harrold Johnson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199568723
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book French Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by John D. Lyons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and lively introduction to the world of French literature.-publisher description.
Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674254619
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book A New History of French Literature written by Denis Hollier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.
Author : Léon Emile Kastner
Publisher : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Short History of French Literature from the Origins to the Present Day written by Léon Emile Kastner and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198159315
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book A Short History of French Literature written by Sarah Kay and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : L. E. Kastner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266418962
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (189 download)
Download or read book A Short History of French Literature (Classic Reprint) written by L. E. Kastner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of French Literature In writing this volume it has been the authors' ambition to fill the gap that is felt by many to exist between the numerous primers of F rench literature, and such larger works as those of Saintsbury and Dowden. While the requirements of candidates for examination have throughout been steadily kept in View, the authors have no less earnestly endeavoured to make this short sketch a thoroughly reliable introduction to the study of F rench literature, for all Who desire to become acquainted With the subject. No attempt has been made to secure an illusory completeness by the mere enumeration of names of third and fourth rate importance. On the other hand, those of the first rank are dealt With at considerable length, while such writers of lesser importance, as the authors have for various reasons felt compelled to include, are treated in a smaller type, Which serves the double purpose of indicating their relative position and of economizing con siderable space. Biographies of the principal authors, and brief summaries of the contents of the more important works, are likewise given in the smaller type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Catriona Kelly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191577505
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Catriona Kelly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? The book will uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare' as a recurring example as his work influenced every Russian writer who came after hime, whether poets or novelists. It will look at such questions as why Russian writers are venerated, how they've been interpreted inside Russia and beyond, and the influences of such things as the folk tale tradition, orthodox religion, and the West ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316380963
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature written by Brian Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in English translation and with the original French. The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Molière, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French literature.
Author : Christopher Prendergast
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400885043
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern French Literature written by Christopher Prendergast and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "national" coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "French" and "Frenchness" expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France. Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century Features more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholars Includes an introduction and index The contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Méchoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stević, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.
Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Harmondsworth ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Short History of French Literature written by Geoffrey Brereton and published by Harmondsworth ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 556 pages
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Author : Jill Forbes
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198715009
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)
Download or read book French Cultural Studies written by Jill Forbes and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Cultural Studies: An Introduction challenges received theories about France and French culture. The book takes into account the major changes which have been taking place in the context of French Studies in both secondary and higher education, with the focus shifting to a broader rangeof cultural forms. French Cultural Studies adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of French culture and society since 1870, emphasizing recent and contemporary developments. It suggests new ways of looking at France and the French-speaking world through the ideas, images, and narratives ofmore than a century of turbulent history and political change. As well as looking at the literary, artistic, and intellectual culture for which France is renowned, the authors examine audio-visual media, popular culture, and cultural policy. They follow the stages of French history through periods of industrialization and war, reconstruction andmodernization, and the crises and revolutions of post-colonialism and postmodernity. Copiously illustrated, and with guidance for further reading, this fascinating and authoritative work will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary French society and its culture. List of Contents: Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors, List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction; Part I: Industrialization and War (1870-1944): Chapter 1. Industrialization and its Discontents (1870-1914): From Symbolism to Modernism; Paris, the Capital of Art; Le Japonisme or the Challengeto Europe; Science, Technology, and the Growth of the Mass Market; Mallarme' - the Total Artist; The Birth of Impressionism; The Neurosis of the fin de sie'cle; Cubism and the Impact of Primitive Art; The Belle e'poque?; The Imposition of the New Moral Order; The Eroticization of the Public Domain;The Feminist Critique; Leisure, Consumption, and Popular Culture; Chapter 2. Wars and Class Wars (1914-1944): War and Revolution; Les anne'es folles; Crisis and Commitment; Les anne'es noires; Suggestions for further reading; Part II: Reconstruction and its ideologies (1945-1967): Chapter 3. Crisesof Reconstruction (1945-1967): Reconstruction of the French Nation; The French Ideologies; Existentialism and The Second Sex; Politics and Culture from the Cold War to Decolonization; African Literature and Film in French; Chapter 4. Modernization and Avant-Gardes (1945-1967): Modernization andPopular Culture; The New Theatre; The New Novel and New Criticism; The Cinema from Occupation to New Wave; Suggestions for further reading; Part III: Revolution and Postmodernity (1968-1995): Chapter 5. The Author, The Reader, and the Text after 1968: The Revolution in Writing; The Self and Others;Chapter 6: Popular Culture and Cultural Politics: The Rise of Audio-Visual Culture; The City as Signifying Practice; Cultural Politics and the Postmodern Condition; French in the World - from Imperialism to Diversity; Suggestions for further reading; Conclusion: Chronology; Index
Author : William Forbes Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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